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Calendar Events / Announcements '03 I / Re:DC DVD Review #2 - "The Turn of the Screw"
« on: June 15, 2003, 08:27:49 PM »Quote
Worse, Curtis chose, for some unexplained reason, to shoot select outdoor scenes on a grainy film stock. This might have worked if Curtis had done this with the ghostly scenes only, as a way of setting them apart from the rest of the film. But the switch from video to film seems almost random.
When Miss Cubberly (Lynn Redgrave) drives up to Bligh House in her carriage, it's film. When she steps out of the carriage in front of the house, it's video. When she and the children leave church on Sunday morning, it's film. When they visit Peter Quint's grave in the churchyard one minute later, it's video. The effect is pointless, distracting, and annoying. Curtis needed to decide which medium he was shooting in.
I wonder if perhaps DC may have planned to use film for the entire project but then, possibly for bugetary reason, decided to go with video and simply incorporated the already filmed footage with the video? Although, that does seem odd - even for DC. :- And if I remember correctly, most, if not all of those ABC late-night movies were shot on video.
Pity DC doesn't address this peculiarity in his interview...