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Topic: Steven Speilberg votes NO on digital filming!
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Dave Williams
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From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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posted 06-04-2002 12:35 PM
Our friend and buddy Steven Speilberg had departed from his long time friend in the arena of digital filming. In a recent interview with WIRED magazine, he had this to say...“Now the thing I'm most saddened by is the constant talk about the photochemical process becoming a thing of Thomas Edison's past,” Spielberg said. “There's a magic about chemistry and film. Sure, a digital shot is steady. It doesn't have to ride through the gate of a projector. And, sure, it's as clean as the OR in a major hospital. That's exactly what's wrong with it. Film has a molecular structure called grain; even a still of just a flower in a vase has life because of the grain, because of the molecules in the film. Especially if you sit in the first five rows of any movie theater, you know what I'm talking about. The screen is alive. The screen is always alive with chaos and excitement, and that will certainly be gone when we convert to a digital camera and a digital projector. I was one of the first people to use digital technology to enhance my films, but I'm going to be the last person to use digital technology to shoot my movies."
It is nice to know that at least he is on our side.
Dave
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John Wilson
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posted 06-04-2002 09:29 PM
So which one will get their way, Steve or George when they start Indiana 4? (Although I still very much doubt this will ever see the light of day)------------------
Too much of the rest of the film is given over to a romance between Padme and Anakin in which they're incapable of uttering anything other than the most basic and weary romantic cliches, while regarding each other as if love was something to be endured rather than cherished. There is not a romantic word they exchange that has not long since been reduced to cliche. No, wait: Anakin tells Padme at one point: "I don't like the sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating--not like you. You're soft and smooth." I hadn't heard that before. - Roger Ebert reviewing Episode 2. :)
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Paul G. Thompson
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posted 06-05-2002 03:18 AM
Thank you, Mr. Steven Speilberg.  As a passing thought, I think one of the funniest things I saw Mr. Speilberg do was in the video Making of the Raiders of the Lost Ark. He was reprimanding a snake and yelling, "You are ruining my movie!" I don't remember if he throttled the snake, since it has been so long since I seen it. But it showed the human side of Mr. Speilberg.
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John Pytlak
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posted 06-05-2002 10:40 AM
Mr. Spielberg has consistently felt the same way, along with many other great filmmakers:
http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/newsletters/notes/march2000/filmmakers.shtml
"Arts stimulate something inside of us. I'm going to direct all my films on film until they close the last lab down."
--- Steven Spielberg
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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
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Stephen Furley
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posted 06-05-2002 11:02 AM
"Anyway if Indy 4 ever comes out, I will bet it will be shot on film since Stevie always does the directing. George produces, so I'm not exactly sure what his role is other than writing checks to make the movie."So what happens when when the producer wants digital, and the director wants film? Or one wants flat and the other wants scope, or any other choice which has to be made? Do they fire the director, and get someone else who will agree with the producer, or argue about it forever, and never shoot anything, or what?
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John Pytlak
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posted 06-05-2002 01:40 PM
Until recently, many of Mr. Spielberg's films were anamorphic ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Jaws", "1941", "Hook", etc., not just those produced by George Lucas. As long as the choice of format is based on the filmmaker's vision, rather than economics and a demand to "fit" video, I enjoy and appreciate all film formats. ------------------
John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7525A
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: +1 585 477 5325 Cell: +1 585 781 4036 Fax: +1 585 722 7243
e-mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com
Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
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