P3D Re: House of Wax

[Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>The public has yet to see what a steady diet of 3D movies in all
categories
and styles would be like.<

Good point. I suspect that it would be somewhat like color. Once full color
was perfected, the early films to use the process were COLORFUL!
Knock-your-eyeballs-out-with-a-blinding-vibrating-rainbow kind of colorful.
Today, with everything in color, it's seldom calculatedly used for any kind
of serious dramatic impact. It's just lying there in front of the camera,
so they might as well go ahead and photograph it. Perhaps the same would
happen to depth if all movies were 3D.

It occurs to me that my previous messages on this topic probably left the
impression that I am a fan only of the exploitive use of 3D and not of more
subtle uses. This is not true. I do very much appreciate the clever and
subtle use of the medium in such films as Dial M, House of Wax, and for the
most part The Maze and others. However, I also feel that commercial films
have a certain obligation to "deliver the goods" as expected by the
audience. Serious stereographers today are over-reacting to the
over-reaction in the other direction of some zealous commercial types. The
ideal, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle.


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