Fitzcarraldo
I'd never heard of this film, and watched it on BBC4 due to a process of elimination, we're not watching that, that, that or that, let's try this for ten minutes before the other thing is on.
Anyhoo quite some time later, on the edge of seats..they what..they chopped a tree down, in the Amazon rain forest??? The tree was quite minor compared to the wholesale destruction that followed.
My brain didn't know how to process this film, it looks real? What are they doing now..dragging a paddle Steamer up a mountain?
How, why, what?
How did this happen?
This film felt like it was something different, in a way that is hard to explain. I found it startling.
Kate
New Tricks
The episode in which Eric Syke's dog is eaten by an ocelot, and Amanda Redman interviews suspects wearing a floppy hat. The the most bizarre detective series plot I have ever seen. Why did this nonsensical idea work at all, where was the reality? Maybe in the characters of the detectives, based on those of the actors themselves?
I seem, at the moment, to be wondering which elements of film allow us to suspend disbelief, and enjoy the 'ride'. Fitzcarraldo seemed anchored in mud and 'unprettyness', the film made a literal scar in the landscape.
Real Amazonian forest, and top class actors interacting with each other..how can we as machinimators compete with that?
Either of these dramas just wouldn't have worked in machinima. There's no point hauling a pretend boat up a mountain, and the plot holes would have sung out in a virtual 'New Tricks'.
Where can a machinima drama, or comedy, anchor itself? Where can the reality be found on which the fantasy can be built?
I'd never heard of this film, and watched it on BBC4 due to a process of elimination, we're not watching that, that, that or that, let's try this for ten minutes before the other thing is on.
Anyhoo quite some time later, on the edge of seats..they what..they chopped a tree down, in the Amazon rain forest??? The tree was quite minor compared to the wholesale destruction that followed.
My brain didn't know how to process this film, it looks real? What are they doing now..dragging a paddle Steamer up a mountain?
How, why, what?
How did this happen?
This film felt like it was something different, in a way that is hard to explain. I found it startling.
Kate
New Tricks
The episode in which Eric Syke's dog is eaten by an ocelot, and Amanda Redman interviews suspects wearing a floppy hat. The the most bizarre detective series plot I have ever seen. Why did this nonsensical idea work at all, where was the reality? Maybe in the characters of the detectives, based on those of the actors themselves?
I seem, at the moment, to be wondering which elements of film allow us to suspend disbelief, and enjoy the 'ride'. Fitzcarraldo seemed anchored in mud and 'unprettyness', the film made a literal scar in the landscape.
Real Amazonian forest, and top class actors interacting with each other..how can we as machinimators compete with that?
Either of these dramas just wouldn't have worked in machinima. There's no point hauling a pretend boat up a mountain, and the plot holes would have sung out in a virtual 'New Tricks'.
Where can a machinima drama, or comedy, anchor itself? Where can the reality be found on which the fantasy can be built?