Posted by DelaWhere at proxy2-external.oaks1.pa.home.com on January 19, 2002 at 12:33:36:
In Reply to: Does TV screw Movie Directors? posted by FeVeR DoG on January 19, 2002 at 11:40:39:
Those shot in (35mm I beleive) like DOGMA, actually have film added, since the technique used to produce the film is the placement of a mat overtop the finished picture. However, the artistic vision is still sometimes compromised. But the actors are all still present.
: 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.......