P3D Re; House of Wax

[Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>In 1984, Andre de Toth, the director of House of Wax told me that the
paddle ball sequence in the film was only included at the insistence of
producer Bryan Foy.  De Toth himself fought vigorously to keep it out of
House of Wax but did not prevail.  He felt that the sequence was gimmicky
and gratuitous in that it had nothing to do with the narrative of the
film.<

Yet interestingly enough, amid all of de Toth's subtle and extremely
effective use of composition in depth, the paddle-ball scene is probably
the one and only scene that EVERYONE remembers from House of Wax. Which
raises the question, SHOULD 3D movies be "tasteful"? It seems that even the
most dyed-in-the-wood 3D buffs prefer the "assault the cameraman" approach
to 3D movies.


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