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Zemeckis is exceeded
By Fernando Mexia - Cinema - 25/10/2009
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Robert Zemeckis is exceeded in A Christmas Carol . Five years after debuting in the world of "motion capture"-now known as "performance capture" - the director of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump has managed to develop a brilliant film in which the amazing technology does not overshadow the story or the characters. Do not get me wrong, the technique is still spectacular (in fact, is much improved), but the spotlight falls on a Jim Carrey as the miser Scrooge characterized, or rather caricatured, crosses the CGI (Computer Generated Imagery), calls into the table and get real emotions to the viewer to forget you are watching a revolutionary product in the history of cinema.
Carrey made, no doubt, the best performance of his carrera.De fact, the usual exaggeration, grotesque faces and voice changes-Canadian comedian who can be tiresome and out of place in a standard film-make sense in a production that is halfway between an animated film and flesh. Carrey is in the "performance capture" the shape of your shoe. Read the rest of this entry »
The 3D revolution
By Fernando Mexia - Cinema - 16/03/2009
An idea almost as old as cinema itself will change the way we enjoy the cinema from now on. They all three dimensions to the big screen and this time seems it is serious. Hollywood thinks in this format as the solution to many of their problems and scratching the pockets to carry stereoscopic productions world-even the hitherto marginalized lived in a small number of rooms where projected in 3D, although experience was more like visiting an amusement park that the ritual of cinema. No more animal documentaries, the Jurassic, the Pyramids or travel by helicopter on cliffs. The new 3D is loaded with arguments, stories with a beginning, middle and end, well-known actors and knocks on the door of the Oscars, I say this unequivocally. Read the rest of this entry »
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