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Niki Tonsky

It’s really hard to tell where did the sense of scale go. But it clearly went somewhere

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Niki Tonsky

You clearly did something wrong when your sandworm looks less epic than just a group of dudes at sunset

Jack Rusher

@nikitonsky I’m imagining the director shouting at the color graders: “Darker! Grayer!”

Florian Egermann

@nikitonsky Like it or not, this is an artistic choice.
In general, Dune is visually distinct exactly because it rarely goes for the “typical Hollywood money shots”.

sergueif

@nikitonsky no idea why anybody liked that movie

Grumpy Old Techie 🕊️

@nikitonsky It went away when people stopped using Super Panavision 70 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Pa

A lot of care was taken to get it right when filming Lawrence of Arabia e.g. from IMDB
"To film Omar Sharif's entrance through a mirage, Freddie Young used a special 482mm lens from Panavision. Panavision still has this lens, and it is known among cinematographers as the "David Lean lens". It was created specifically for this shot and has not been used since.”

Niki Tonsky

@grumpyoldtechie Sure they could’ve simulated it on a computer?

Grumpy Old Techie 🕊️

@nikitonsky Lawrence of Arabia was filmed in 1961/1962 No computers at the time could do that kind of Simulation

Niki Tonsky

@grumpyoldtechie No, I mean that’s no excuse for modern movies to lose the sense of scale

Slava

@nikitonsky@mastodon I disagree. I actually was blown away by the immense size of stuff when I first saw it at the theather.

Niki Tonsky

Actually, part of the problem might be vignette. If you remove it, shot starts to breathe a little more

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