Posted by FeVeR DoG at 199.35.88.18 on January 19, 2002 at 11:40:39:
I have been reading JINX by Brian Michael Bendis (Great fuckin' book BTW),and in one scene, a character brings up a good point, one that we all know, but I, myself never thought of it this way...
Does television ruin a directors art by airing movie in TV format?
It's true that one THIRD of the screen is missing at all times when on the square format.(This IS the reason Letter-box rules!)
But besides the inconvience of us viewers, what do the directors,Hell, even the actors feel like when they see a totally different vision of the movie they made on TV?
Hell, I didn't even KNOW Val Kilmer was IN "True Romance" till I bought the DVD! Because in square format, he wasn't EVEN SHOWN! He was a "hand of Elvis" in the corner of the screen!
It just makes me wonder, how pissed a person who was INVOLVED in the film must get.
thanks and have a great day.......