So why are so many filmmakers keeping the lights low? The simple answer is: because they can. It’s been a decade since digital video overtook the use of celluloid, and by 2016 more than 90% of films were shot digitally. One change wrought by this technology is that directors now have video monitors on set to show them exactly what the cameras are capturing. They can see immediately whether all of the details they need are there on screen, so they can experiment with lower lighting.
This is a nonsense cop-out. Of course they’re going to tell you it’s for “realism,” “tone,” and “experimentation.” That makes them sound like serious auteurs. They’d never tell you that it’s because they’re shooting on a greenscreen, and the effects won’t be finished until a month before the movie releases, so they have only the faintest idea what the backgrounds will look like, and it’s easier for everyone involved to simply not light the set and let everything get brightened or darkened in post. They won’t tell you that because it’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing they’re making these goofy cash-grab movies for megacompanies and paying their VFX artists barely anything. It’s embarrassing they’re working under these conditions, selling out. So they tell the people at the BBC they’re making art.
P.S. I’m annoyed The Batman got added to this list when it was a good looking movie. “Dark” is not the same as “flat and bland”.
This is what I tried to explain to US platforms like Patreon when they suspended my account for having a nude statue as the background image: I live in Europe, I can go and see a nude statue within a 5 minutes walk. Children can see them, they’re not in some 18+ container. I will never understand those policies.
As an American, the times I’ve gone abroad I’ve felt free and open in a way that made coming back to the US extremely jarring in a way I couldn’t fully describe. This is an aspect of it—a sanitized, dead culture entirely composed of constant advertisements and guns.
I’m confused how art with genitals in it can even get hand wringing? that’s just in every gallery? How do you even sanitise that without carving out some really significant parts of art history?
anyway this is really what America is like. the right wing is currently weaponizing this against gay and trans people by accusing them of “grooming”. it’s really interesting to me to watch Europeans discover the reasons WHY Americans are all insane. like we didn’t get this way by accident there are extremely powerful stressors acting on us from before the moment of birth that causes epigenetic syndromes, chronic illness and derangement lol
I think it’s kinda crazy that ppl saying “I wish more ppl read the comics” is considered kinda gatekeep-y or anything like that… Bc all I imagine is ppl doing that w cartoons.
you tell someone to watch the owl house if they’re going to invest so much time in these characters & they tell you to fuck off they’ll continue never seeing an episode of the owl house bc fanon is more fun anyways & like im sorry but I just giggle to myself thinking about it