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Showing posts with label Transformers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transformers. Show all posts

Thursday, June 30, 2011

WHY DRUGS ARE BAD



Sorry, can't resist...
Movie critics tend to fall in the "assaultive," camp, but Foundas again puts Bay in context of recognized auteurs. "There's a lot of directors historically who like to move the camera a lot. They just tend to do it in one take instead of these short edits," he says. "But maybe he's kind of like Marcel Ophuls on methamphetamine."

Scott Foundas was so skullfucked by Transformers Trois that he a) is spewing meaningless absurdities like Serge Daney on GHB concerning Bay's style, and b) has confused the son with the father.

He's right though, I did detect a little hommage in the Clermont-Ferrand sequence of the first Transformers. now, Everybody get to rehab!

Thursday, July 29, 2010

WATCHING A BIT OF TRANSFORMERS

Risky strategy -- All moments have equal weight. You could profitably edit the film into hundreds of Joe Cornell versions.

No builds, no dead moments, crosscutting yields no suspense. Just vague irritation "excitement-state" -- brickish "and then... and then...", montage.

Kinetic sculpture effect -- impossibility of composition. Movement in every shot -- the movement guides the "story" content, such as it is.

Also plane and lens effects, headlights sliding the wall -- foreground scooting in relation to the middle ground or BG.