I promised myself I wouldn’t post too many videos in a row, but I couldn’t resist in this case:
People don’t appreciate the art of a trailer.
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Quest for Fire is a bizarre little movie. On the surface, it seems to mimic ‘Call of the Wild’ or some other naturalist school of thought; yet if you look a little closer, there are elements which I can only classify as ‘Romantic’ (in the romantic era use of the word.)
I’d really like to see animation develop as an art form in America. I’d like to see animated movies as just another stylistic variant producers choose to employ. Luckily, I live in a wonderful time where this seems to be happening, at least to some degree. Hugely successful movies like Avatar (which is essentially animated) [...] The same guy who reviewed The Phantom Menace awhile back puts his sights on Avatar: Be sure to watch part 2. I feel I need to begin by saying something about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. First, Sherlock Holmes was never great literature; they were serial pulp stories for the 19th century. Purists who worry about this movie corrupting a great work of art….really shouldn’t. Second, the Sherlock stories weren’t actually very good mysteries (they were [...]
I was so concentrated in my last post about debating on YouTube that I forgot to give you my preemptive and completely baseless opinions and assumptions about James Cameron’s Avatar. First a disclaimer: I love animation and I love to animate. If you’re having a conversation with me and bring it up, I [...] |
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