tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25910439.post116763506434564623..comments2024-01-24T14:39:44.820-06:00Comments on Darkmatters: Fistful of PuppetDarkmattershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15410415900992364189noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25910439.post-1168586678519841062007-01-12T01:24:00.000-06:002007-01-12T01:24:00.000-06:00Yeah, Once Upon a Time in the West is incredible.....Yeah, Once Upon a Time in the West is incredible... especially that long scenario on the train platform where the sounds of a creaking sign etc orchestrate into a sound track. <BR/><BR/>Heh... I just emailed Tomislav Torjanac to tell him how much I like the drawings he's posted recently, and he informed me that a capitol D with a line through it like I use in my Darkmatters title is pronounced Dj in his part of the world - as in Django (another of those great spaghetti westerns)! Weird, huh? I love those flicks and the way they're made... I'd love to use similar techniques in some of my films.Darkmattershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15410415900992364189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25910439.post-1168519416363105252007-01-11T06:43:00.000-06:002007-01-11T06:43:00.000-06:00It's amazing what you can find online - wow.I just...It's amazing what you can find online - wow.<BR/><BR/>I just listened to an interview with Clint Eastwood on NPR's freshaire.<BR/><BR/>They were talking about the music of the Leone films and how the music changes the image on the screen.<BR/>Clint brought up the fact that the Ennio Morricone score is very operatic (which I never considered - Duh)<BR/>but of course he is right watch any of those films without the sound and it is no where near as powerful.<BR/><BR/>As good as those three films are I might just like "Once upon a time in the west" even better. It doesn't have the iconic Eastwood, but instead it has Henry Fonda as a nasty bad ass dude - completely against character. Some of the scenes at the train station are amazing the way the camera work is done. His camera work is so cinematic he makes a lot of the american western movies look like a TV "Gun Smoke" episode.mefullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07027902750016300876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25910439.post-1167739062090910732007-01-02T05:57:00.000-06:002007-01-02T05:57:00.000-06:00It's not just because of the arches. Actually thes...It's not just because of the arches. Actually these screengrabs fail to do justice to the architecture in the film.... here the buildings are only shown fron the outside and rather far away. I wish I could get my computer working for grabbing pics - when the action takes place inside these great spaces you can really see how powerful it is. And that's when it reminded me of your mockups - mostly because of the multi-level thing, with ramps joining levels etc. Well, that and the arches....Darkmattershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15410415900992364189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25910439.post-1167736706774400692007-01-02T05:18:00.000-06:002007-01-02T05:18:00.000-06:00Hey, wow! When I opened up your blog and saw that...Hey, wow! When I opened up your blog and saw that picture, my immediate first thought was<BR/><BR/>"Ooh... I like that! Maybe I should steal that image and use it for a set design."<BR/><BR/>And then I read down. I'm surprised that you made the connection to my set mockups! Good call, man!<BR/><BR/>Probably part of it is that there are arches... I'm fascinated the thought of using arcs in architecture. Not sure how I'm going to go about it, but I want to make lots of sets that have arcs -- and not just straight lines -- defining spaces.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com