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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Great, but does that qualify her to be a show runner? I feel a disconnect here.
Eternals-adjacent chatter: Kevin Feige is apparently being roasted for commending Chloe Zhao's dedication to...
[checks notes] shooting outside?
“And I had to keep saying, ‘This is right out of a camera; there’s no VFX work to this at all!’” Feige says. “Because it was a beautiful sunset, with perfect waves and mist coming up from the shore on this giant cliffside — really impressive stuff.” Later, watching “Nomadland,” he saw similar shots. “Oh! That is not just what she wanted to bring to Marvel,” he remembers thinking. “This is a signature style.”
I don't really get the mockery, it sounds like he is trying to talk her up and commend her efforts to make Eternals her own movie and not just be the face of a corporate product. Coming after an Oscar win it's also some good studio publicity showing they identified her talent before the awards came in.
Given how a lot of $100 million+ blockbusters bank on green screen filming even with a blue sky background, it's not that absurd a statement.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.The incredulity at his statement is less an attack on Feige and more a comment on this current state of affairs. Because it is absurd that you have to hype up practical locations. (I remember thinking the Ragnarok cliff scene looked really janky.)
Main filming wrapped Feb 2020; they just did reshoots late last year. Marvel's just been quiet on the marketing front.
Edited by Synchronicity on Apr 28th 2021 at 6:35:10 AM
A big part of it is just that the pandemic delayed the whole timetable. Sure they got the footage, but that's only part of the equation when it comes to movie marketing. It's very uncommon for a movie to drop it's trailer until it's around 6 months out from it's announced date. Not unheard of, but we just got a Shang-Chi trailer last week and that comes out 2 months before Eternals.
Now I fully expect the first trailer to proudly proclaim "From Academy Award Winning Director Chloe Zhao", but I don't think they were holding off specifically for the Oscars.
Edited by Falrinn on Apr 28th 2021 at 4:49:19 AM
Anthony Mackie's new tweet is gold
. Minor spoilers if you didn't watch the end of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.
With big enough productions, the question does arise whether it's more cost effective to bring all the cast and crew to a specific location to shoot, and potentially lose tons of time (and thus, money) if the weather doesn't agree or if shooting runs long enough that you lose the light ... or just shoot it in the studio and greenscreen the scenery.
The first live action Avatar Airbender movie blew a huge chunk of its budget on location shooting and then didn’t have a lot left over to make the special effects not look like ass
Forever liveblogging the AvengersIt could just be that the shot was particularly impressive, it being practical was just icing on the cake. As someone who has worked on film sets before, these conditions:
Aren't exactly easy to get. Cliffsides aren't easy locations to shoot in the first place, lots of rocks, water, and falling hazards. For the waves and mist coming off the waves to be playing perfectly with the sunset requires a bit of luck, and getting a nice sunset shot isn't easy, you've got one hour at best in the day to capture that moment with. Especially if this shot is going to be used in the film and has actual actors doing lines off of each other, that's the kind of shot you have to both plan extensively and pray for.
Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Apr 28th 2021 at 6:41:20 AM
IIRC absurd location shooting costs were a big part of what killed Sense8. Whaling on the cost of location shooting I get, but hyping up the very concept of location shooting? I no get
She actually did say
she did a lot of golden-hour sunset shooting:
