http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=7323
Man, he's like the exact opposite of his best friend. I am glad though that he's listening to fans regarding what version of E.t. to release on Blu-Ray.
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"What I'd like to ask is this. We'll do a little poll here. I know we're coming out with the Blu-ray of E.T. If I came out with just one E.T. on Blu-ray, the 1982 one, would anybody object to that ? (Audience shouts 'No!') Ok, so be it."
Furthermore, Spielberg and Harrison Ford both expressed a willingness to make a fifth Indiana Jones film if they were presented with a script. At the question, Ford joked, "As long as they don't send me to Mars!".
Furthermore, Spielberg and Harrison Ford both expressed a willingness to make a fifth Indiana Jones film if they were presented with a script. At the question, Ford joked, "As long as they don't send me to Mars!".
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Feelings on the Current Use of Special Effects in Movies
Ford: Well what I think I was struggling to say was that the potential that filmmakers have with computer-aided graphics... it's wonderful and can be wonderfully creative, but it can also lead to a failure to attend to human scale. To go so far beyond our experience and our imaginations as an audience that it reminds us we're watching a digital effect rather than some subtle extension of our experience which makes us feel like it's humanly possible. This leads to a vast field of computer created enemies as far as the eye can see. This kind of potential often robs movies of a degree of soul.
Spielberg: I think its a tool. The digital tools available to all of us are simply that. It's just a tool. We can either make a movie that celebrates the digital era where we throw away story and just do a bunch of crazy wonderful special effects to keep us entertained but don't give us anything to remember beyond that fact that we spent two hours watching all these expensive special effects or we can continue to write good stories, original stories. Real strong narratives where the digital components are simply going to, if not enhance the experience, allow us to have the experience. I couldn't have made Jurassic Park that anybody would have believed, even back in 1993. You wouldn't have believed that movie if the dinosaurs had been stop-motion animated. That was the first movie to use digital technology to create an entire character, in fact a whole bunch of characters in the animals. So there's a time and place for it... It's when everything is just a special effect that we start to lose our way.
Ford: Well what I think I was struggling to say was that the potential that filmmakers have with computer-aided graphics... it's wonderful and can be wonderfully creative, but it can also lead to a failure to attend to human scale. To go so far beyond our experience and our imaginations as an audience that it reminds us we're watching a digital effect rather than some subtle extension of our experience which makes us feel like it's humanly possible. This leads to a vast field of computer created enemies as far as the eye can see. This kind of potential often robs movies of a degree of soul.
Spielberg: I think its a tool. The digital tools available to all of us are simply that. It's just a tool. We can either make a movie that celebrates the digital era where we throw away story and just do a bunch of crazy wonderful special effects to keep us entertained but don't give us anything to remember beyond that fact that we spent two hours watching all these expensive special effects or we can continue to write good stories, original stories. Real strong narratives where the digital components are simply going to, if not enhance the experience, allow us to have the experience. I couldn't have made Jurassic Park that anybody would have believed, even back in 1993. You wouldn't have believed that movie if the dinosaurs had been stop-motion animated. That was the first movie to use digital technology to create an entire character, in fact a whole bunch of characters in the animals. So there's a time and place for it... It's when everything is just a special effect that we start to lose our way.
Man, he's like the exact opposite of his best friend. I am glad though that he's listening to fans regarding what version of E.t. to release on Blu-Ray.
