Adrian Cochrane
Finally saw Everything Everywhere All At Once the other day (missed it in theatres because, well, I'm not trying for any movie; saw Nope instead), and wow! It deserves every single award its been getting if not more!
What I want to highlight using it is basically how relatively small its budget & crew are! Please take inspiration from it!
I think this movie serves well to highlight my concept of "feats of skill" (e.g. Everything Everywhere) vs "feats of budget" (e.g. Avatar franchise).
1/2?
Adrian Cochrane
I want to see more movies distributed outside Hollywood studios who demand DRM. In making that a reality we can't compete with Hollywood on budgets, but we can compete on storytelling skill & imagination.
We can't afford a more populace alien world than Pandora, but we can afford a more imaginative & alien one.
With computers effects today are cheap & set to get cheaper (not to discount talented CG artists), soon theatre groups may be able to compete with mid-budget movies!
2/3
Adrian Cochrane
This leans towards another concept of the "maximalist aesthetic", which Everything Everywhere does have in a more distinctive & thematically-appropriate way.
Maximalism refers to the aesthetic of "how much can we fit onscreen?", which we see everywhere since the ascendancy of computing. How many pixels? Detail? Portraits? Sprites? What else?
It's often treated like the inevitable march of progress, but it'd probably help the planet to move away from it! Useful to think about.
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Devine Lu Ator
@alcinnz I'm not sure if you like Technical Hitch, but the latest clip(as they always are) is pretty much in line with that concept I find
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