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« on: March 21, 2004, 08:48:39 AM »
A bit of an aside regarding the use of digitizing effects, etc.
Although the advances in technology have brought many new possibilities to today's filmmaking one does feel a sense of loss in realism too.
That thought comes to mind now because I've been re-watching the 1967 Bondarchuk film of "War and Peace," where attention to detail and realism reached its zenith in a manner that will never be done again. Filming took five years and in today's costs would be over 1 billion dollars. Recreate a battle with 120,000 soldiers? Bondarchek GOT 120,000 Russian soldiers, and every uniform was custom made down to the buttons; real artillery was used, the battle was recreated from the historical records, and filming was on the actual battlefield location. A bean field was replaced with a wheat field because the original field was a wheat field.
That kind of realism can never be replicated by digitization, FX, what have you.
I know, I know, we're talking TV budgets and so back to the reality of today's TV production ...
Although the advances in technology have brought many new possibilities to today's filmmaking one does feel a sense of loss in realism too.
That thought comes to mind now because I've been re-watching the 1967 Bondarchuk film of "War and Peace," where attention to detail and realism reached its zenith in a manner that will never be done again. Filming took five years and in today's costs would be over 1 billion dollars. Recreate a battle with 120,000 soldiers? Bondarchek GOT 120,000 Russian soldiers, and every uniform was custom made down to the buttons; real artillery was used, the battle was recreated from the historical records, and filming was on the actual battlefield location. A bean field was replaced with a wheat field because the original field was a wheat field.
That kind of realism can never be replicated by digitization, FX, what have you.
I know, I know, we're talking TV budgets and so back to the reality of today's TV production ...