Posted by ROCKET SCIENTIST at pcp126744pcs.medfrd01.nj.comcast.net on January 19, 2002 at 12:06:47:
In Reply to: Does TV screw Movie Directors? posted by FeVeR DoG 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.......
Considering they get royalties and more profits from it being televised or rented at Blockbuster on VHS, the negatives of the crop job cancels out;)
But with high definition format and the 16:9 screen ratio coming into wider use, it is possible to not crop films and show them in their entirety on home televisions.
Ted Turner is an outspoken proponent of this as well as against adding coloring to black and white films.
I apologize if this response didn't fit into the subject line like most people in this forum do.
ROCKET