The Aviator

Started by MacGuffin, January 20, 2003, 01:29:35 PM

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.


SiliasRuby

The 2nd disc has some fantastic extras, very insiteful. The commentary is pretty nice. Interesting tidbit that I didn't know was that Leo was completelly committed to the very end even up to post production.
The Beatles know Jesus Christ has returned to Earth and is in Los Angeles.

When you are getting fucked by the big corporations remember to use a condom.

There was a FISH in the perkalater!!!

My Collection

jtm

why are the greens blue?

cowboykurtis

i think this plays drastically better on the big screen
...your excuses are your own...

jtm

Quote from: cowboykurtisi think this plays drastically better on the big screen

i had the same impression after watching the DVD.

Ultrahip

it absolutely plays better on the big screen, but i think it's still great. and i'm pretty sure that the greens are blue because it was shot in two-tone technicolor (up until hepburn estate, anyway) but I may be mistaken.

MacGuffin

Quote from: Jay Tee Emwhy are the greens blue?

Quote from: Ultrahipi'm pretty sure that the greens are blue because it was shot in two-tone technicolor (up until hepburn estate, anyway) but I may be mistaken.

Quote from: On Page 18, cronopio
Quote from: Gamblor not so gone.For some reason, the grass and beet field were blue in the theater I saw this at. Anyone know why it would be missing the color yellow?

could be this,   from imdb trivia:

Scorsese designed each year in the film to look just the way a color film from that time period would look. Achieved mainly through digitally enhanced postproduction, Scorsese recreated the look of Cinecolor and two-strip Technicolor. Watch in particular for the scene where Hughes meets Errol Flynn in the club. Hughes is served precisely placed peas on a plate, and they appear blue or turquoise
just as they'd have looked in the primitive two-strip Technicolor process. As Hughes ages throughout the film, the color gets more sophisticated and full-bodied.
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art." - Andy Warhol


Skeleton FilmWorks

jtm

:oops:  sorry, i missed that... i should prolly stop skimming over most posts.  it's gotten me in a lot of trouble lately.

mogwai

i don't know if this has been brought up earlier in this thread. but i read this following post over at imdb's the aviator thread:

Hidden Skeleton In Courtroom Scene!
Quote from:  Investigator1937It is exactly at 2:22:44. At the beginning of the trial, after he stands to take his oath. Slow that part down or go frame by frame until you get it. During the third camera flash, Howard Hughes' full body skeleton appears in the flash. You can see right through him!!! It's awesome! You can see it fully in only one frame, then it fades out in the next frame, then the fottage goes to black and white for about another two frames. It happens very fast when you are watching the film. You have to slow it down to see it! Don't worry. You'll see it!

i've tried to freeze frame a couple of times but i couldn't see anything. has anyone here who have the dvd noticed this? i really need to see a cap of it if anyone wants to post it. thanks.

modage

i havent noticed, but it is obvious scorsese is paying tribute to Monster Squad where lightning flashes and you can see Dracula's skeleton for a frame or two.  he truly is a student of cinema.
Christopher Nolan's directive was clear to everyone in the cast and crew: Use CGI only as a last resort.

SoNowThen

Hehehe.


As to it playing better on the big screen, I dunno. I appreciated the lighting a lot more when I got to look at it on the tiny monitor in my living room. Marty's looking to be developing a bit of a different visual style, and he really got Richardson to go along with it on this one. I can see a clear link from Casino through Bringing Out The Dead, but this one is quite different (probably mostly because of the period and physical setting of the story and his ideas of mimicking those movies as mentioned previously, but still). Anyway, I enjoyed it even more in 'small'...
Those who say that the totalitarian state of the Soviet Union was not "real" Marxism also cannot admit that one simple feature of Marxism makes totalitarianism necessary:  the rejection of civil society. Since civil society is the sphere of private activity, its abolition and replacement by political society means that nothing private remains. That is already the essence of totalitarianism; and the moralistic practice of the trendy Left, which regards everything as political and sometimes reveals its hostility to free speech, does nothing to contradict this implication.

When those who hated capital and consumption (and Jews) in the 20th century murdered some hundred million people, and the poster children for the struggle against international capitalism and America are now fanatical Islamic terrorists, this puts recent enthusiasts in an awkward position. Most of them are too dense and shameless to appreciate it, and far too many are taken in by the moralistic and paternalistic rhetoric of the Left.

cowboykurtis

re: the skeleton effect. i did notice this - however it is not a skeleton - the image just shifts to B&W for a frame after the flash.
...your excuses are your own...

mogwai

someone over at imdb posted this:


Pubrick

just look for the flesh-covered skeleton.
under the paving stones.

cowboykurtis

well i'll be damned
...your excuses are your own...