jhnkng Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 https://vimeo.com/45985040 Not sure if you guys have seen this, but it's pretty awesome. The last quote from Coppola was especially relevant! Ernesto Mantaras 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernesto Mantaras Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 That was a great video. And yeah, loved the last quote! [color=#333333][font='lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=3]“To me the great hope is that now these little 8mm, video recorders and stuff that are coming out... Just people that wouldn’t normally make movies are gonna be making them, and, you know... Suddenly, one day, some little fat girl in Ohio i[/size][/font][/color][color=#333333][font='lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif][size=3] s gonna be the new Mozart, you know, and make a beautiful film with her little father’s camera recorder and for once this so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever and it will become an art form... That’s my opinion.â€[/size][/font][/color] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Posted August 22, 2012 Share Posted August 22, 2012 Let me quote those last words: [quote name='Coppola'] [font=Helvetica][size=3]... for once the so-called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever and it will become an art form.[/size][/font] [/quote] He is not talking about any technical issue. What he predicted became reality at once. With Super 8 cameras and later home video. There were artists, driven by the need to express themselves, who took these simple, so called 'unprofessional' means without glancing at what 'the industry' did with their millions. To an artist, the comparison of consumer cameras to professional cameras is of little interest. [i]Ars gratia artis[/i] (pompous MGM phrase). A real indie doesn't need comparison. If I have to say something, I don't care about if it meets technical specs. If all I want to do is identify myself with the achievements of others, I am pretentious: [quote name='Coppola'] [font=Helvetica][size=3]Nothing is so terrible as a pretentious movie[/size][/font] [/quote] BTW: Great film, I prefer the original cut. One good argument for the use of true anamorphic lenses: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078788/technical You see the typical lens flares and the funny looking focus transitions very often. What you also see in the specs: Shot in 35 mm, but published in 70 mm. Nobody ever complained about inappropriately low resolution ... jhnkng and Ernesto Mantaras 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgharding Posted August 23, 2012 Share Posted August 23, 2012 It's still the greatest quote in film production. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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