Cannes Interview: Christopher Nolan on a new “unrestored” 70mm print of “2001”

Re:Cannes Interview: Christopher Nolan on a new “unrestored”... by TheOtherHobbes on Saturday May 19, 2018 @05:30PM (#17109833)

When I was walking out of Ready Player One recently the trailer for Infinity War was showing - and it looked like exactly the same movie, with an indistinguishable CGI aesthetic, and similar action.

One thing you can say for 2001 is that it wasn't a copy of anything else. In fact it invented a lot of the visual tropes that are still used in science fiction movies.

That's not a thing that happens much now. There were some genius-level directors around in Kubrick's time, but now virtually all movies look like they live in the same CGI world, with standard stock characters, and similar directing tropes.

It would be huge fun it CGI stopped working for a few years, and directors had to go back to telling stories without it.

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Re:Cannes Interview: Christopher Nolan on a new “unrestored”... by agumonkey on Sunday May 20, 2018 @05:31AM (#17111988)

Part of this is also normal in a way. Periods were people have everything to invent, and then periods were people live in previous codes.

Music feel the same. After the 70s most things have been done. 80s brought some pop color and craziness to it. And now what is there to invent ? hard to say.

Maybe we hit the ceiling, maybe there's still room for surprise ..

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