Roger Ebert might be gone from my TV, but he’s still pushing the words. His latest post discusses the failure of contemporary films to appreciate the difference between visual effects serving the plot, and effects for the sake of effects:
The thing about the film is, we logically know the effects are effects, but they have aspects of startling reality. We know that horses can’t gallop through the air, and carpets can’t fly. But, hey, that’s the real Sultan on a real horse, and that’s the real Sabu on a real carpet. Today it might be done with CGI. We would get quick cuts of the horse heaving and tossing its mane, and the Sultan clinging for dear life, and eagles circling, and the overhead shot to the ground below, and the movie would be so busy it would forget the real point of the shot: The horse is flying!
# 2008 Aug 04
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