| | I never got into Buffy, scheduling conflicts, and I don't like to join such series half way. Plus I lived with a detestable girl who resembled buffy to a T and which turned me off on the show, and still does.
CGI requires the live actors be filmed before a "bluescreen" where the effect will be added. The bluescreen can be any color actually (usually blue or green) and that color must be deleted from the costume of the actors and the other real props or their will be "invisible" splotches on them where the screen behind will show thru. You can sometimes see this on weathermen who accidentally wear the wrong color suit or tie.
this deletion of one of the three primary colors ends up removing one thirds of the brightness and one third of the color range from the film. It can be remedied in part as with amelie where one primay colr (usually blue) was always missing, but the other colors were supersaturated, restoring the brightness. If the budget is high enough, and the bluescreen color varied enough, one can restore most of the luster of a rewalistic film as in some of the better visuals in harry potter, but even here the defects are undeniable.
LOTR was a total disaster in my book. Tolkien's books are the most visually evocative I have read, even better than Rand. The prevalence of CGI and the misrely way the budget was used ruined the entire work for me, even morse than the plot deletions and the inexplicable stupid plot revisions. Ther is not one scene in which one can see red yellow orange green blue and purple at once. Red yellow and green in Rivendell and such, blue green and grey in most othe shots. Ugh.
Pedro Al;modovar is a te3rrific Spanish Director, he discovered Antonio Banderas (long before he became a wor4n out seeming drunk) and Penelope Cruz. His films are very visual, and he uses bold primary colors to dramatic effect. I speak fluent spanish, so ignore the often silly subtitles. You must see Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down, just not with your mom in the room.
Ted
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