Media Dreams
Dec. 23rd, 2008 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frustratedpilotI find myself dreaming about the makings of movies, and while they are interesting I'm not sure what it means about me and my state of mind. Recent stuff from the world inside my subconscious:
* Somebody figured out a clever way to make Blu-Ray DVD disks have multiple visual and audio track groupings, and in so doing created a movie (Gorgon Gulch) that was released in all the MPAA ratings at once--G to XXX/NC-17. One disk, selectable to any level of innocence or depravity the viewer could want. It became a best-seller in the format and the contraversy involved forced a public inquiry into public censorship and the role of the MPAA.
Strangely enough, everybody seemed to like the PG-13 "cut" of the movie the best.
* 20th Century Fox released Sparkplugs: The Swindle, which was originally claimed to be a lost project of Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds, shot in the early Eighties. It made fabulous earnings at the box office and was about to be released to DVD when it was found out to be a fraud--the entire movie was computer-generated, every actor, every piece of spoken dialogue, every prop, every stunt. Hal and Burt were "in" on the fraud as artistic advisors to the computer artists. The movie looked so realistic that even hardcore movie fans who knew what to look for couldn't tell the difference. The Screen Actors Guild raised a ruckus, rightly complaining that this method of filmmaking would eventually make actors obsolete.
* Somebody figured out a clever way to make Blu-Ray DVD disks have multiple visual and audio track groupings, and in so doing created a movie (Gorgon Gulch) that was released in all the MPAA ratings at once--G to XXX/NC-17. One disk, selectable to any level of innocence or depravity the viewer could want. It became a best-seller in the format and the contraversy involved forced a public inquiry into public censorship and the role of the MPAA.
Strangely enough, everybody seemed to like the PG-13 "cut" of the movie the best.
* 20th Century Fox released Sparkplugs: The Swindle, which was originally claimed to be a lost project of Hal Needham and Burt Reynolds, shot in the early Eighties. It made fabulous earnings at the box office and was about to be released to DVD when it was found out to be a fraud--the entire movie was computer-generated, every actor, every piece of spoken dialogue, every prop, every stunt. Hal and Burt were "in" on the fraud as artistic advisors to the computer artists. The movie looked so realistic that even hardcore movie fans who knew what to look for couldn't tell the difference. The Screen Actors Guild raised a ruckus, rightly complaining that this method of filmmaking would eventually make actors obsolete.
