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Films with a unique style or format
What films do you think stand out because of the style or the way they are filmed.
Things like Stranger than Fiction where the main character's life is narrated and he begins to hear the narration as it happens.
Or Doom when it goes into POV mode like the game
Things like Stranger than Fiction where the main character's life is narrated and he begins to hear the narration as it happens.
Or Doom when it goes into POV mode like the game
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Tron
Sin City
300
That's more the kind of thing I was thinking rather than just visual effect although i'm not saying visual effect can't be standout.
One of the examples I gave was POV effect
Rec is POV also.
I mean Avatar could be listed as it was the first major film in a new generation of 3D films.
"Wicked, Wicked": shot in DuoVision which split the screen vertically for the whole movie giving two different viewpoints throughout. Needless to say it didn't catch on.
"Rope": shot in what appears to be a single take. The visual equivalent of holding your breath for 80 minutes.
"The Lady in the Lake": shot from the hero's POV so we never see his face until he looks in a mirror.
"Brainstorm": whenever anyone uses the brain recorder the screen expands into extreme widescreen format. Great at the cinema but on tv not so much.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzojb688aMo
the iron giant
domino
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Mark
All is now clear.:)
Children of Men
District 9
Serenity
While I get what you mean, please define 'unique'. The dialogue is peppered with references to actors, TV, news, music, theatre, authors, etc. This dialogue-driven film isn't the first to do so either.
Well, nothing in cinema is really 'unique' anymore is it, I don't think it was meant to be taken literally, and I did say '...in the 90's'. I'm aware there were plenty such films prior to Tarantino, particularly in the the 70's, but I feel they fell out of favour in the high-concept 80's (MDWA being the exception that proves the rule ).
Amen. Funny and sexy.
In that case, I agree with you. My dislike for Tarantino's signature began during that period because almost every spec script we saw had insanely long dialogue chunks with oh-oh-ironic pop references. The trend returned to life after every Tarantino (and in fairness, Roger Avary) release during mid-1990s and early 2000s. Naturally, this gave some a few hours' worth of heavy drinking and bitching bitterly about copycats, especially those who did it badly. The others tell me it still happens and that it's now known as the Tarantino Effect.