First off I watched Oh Brother, Where art thou? It is one of my favourite movies. I find it to be so witty and funny. I love the creativity in the film. It's so original in every way. I had never watched the way they made the film into the desaturated look before. I found that very cool. Scanning each frame and turn it digital and editing the colour. So cool! I love the colours in the film. So golden and dry, it works perfectly for the time the film is set in. My FAVOURITE photography moment in the movie, is when the three main guys are laying in the hay in the barn. The light is shining threw the boards and just going on the three men's faces. LOVE IT!
The second movie I watched was One Hour Photo. Super creepy movie. It was cool to see some of the things they use to develop rolls of film in a one hour photo place. The movie makes me wonder how many creepers actually do that with your photos. Freaky! I really liked the way they made the lighting so different for the different places. In the store, so bright and happy and open and then at the families place it's nice and warm colours, very natural. And then the creepers life outside of the store is very weird colours, everything is just a little off, there are greens where there shouldn't be. Not my favourite movie, but a good one.
The last movie I was saw Pecker! And it was hilarious. Definitely not for everybody, but totally my kind of humour! I loved all the hidden little innuendoes. My favourite was after Pecker went to New York and was hating how things were going, they showed a shot of his house and there was a sign right in front, looking like it was hung on the house almost, and it said Dead End Street. It was awesome! One thing that REALLY bugged me about this movie, was the Pecker was never taking vertical shots with his original camera and then in his show he had all these vertical shots. I mean he could have cropped them, but it really bugged me. I love how they referenced the Migrant Mother image, with the dad in the newspaper and the newspaper making up this big story about how he is suffering and has no money. That was very funny. Well done. I also liked the different perceptions everybody had of Pecker's work. The people from his home thought they were just images of them in their normal lives, but the people in New York thought it was a totally different world, and thought Pecker was actually making fun of the people. Which he wasn't at all. It really shows how people can see things totally differently.
I noticed that the guy did take portrait shots either, really bothered me!
ReplyDeleteI mean didn't take portrait shots!
ReplyDeleteHey Jill,
ReplyDeleteI read this on IMDb about the vertical and horizontal picture taking in Pecker - "Continuity: At the end of the opening credits, Pecker photographs a woman outside the Sub Pit. He is holding the camera vertically, but we are shown a horizontal view through the viewfinder." Funny you caught that, I so didn't!
Agree with you on O'Brother Where Art Thou. Loved that movie.
I had a good laugh when he was shooting the vertical but we saw it as a horizontal. Pecker was my favorite movie it was very witty. I didnt notice the dead end sign before it was until they came back from New York that I noticed the sign which made it seem that people truely did hate them.
ReplyDeleteOh Brother was really good too. It amazes me that it is always on tv but I have never watched the full thing until Wed when I watched it.
One hour photo I agreed that people are creepy when it comes to photos.
Hey Jill! I agree with your comments on oh brother where art tho? Super creative and funny movie. George Clonney is great! I loved the colors also. I had never really paid much attention to that before, but they did a great job making it have that olden dusty feeling. Great movie!
ReplyDeleteHey Jill,
ReplyDeleteI also really liked the whole coloring thing they did, making it desaturated, definatley fitting for the feel and setting of the movie. Very nice coloring, and also engaging. I agree that it was funny, definately not a favorite of mine, but I liked the comedy from the three guys. Without that it wouldn't have been nearly as good.
Jill,
ReplyDeleteHa. Glad you picked up on the fact his shooting angles were all wacky. Funny, funny. I like how you made reference to the color changes in One hour photo, I totally didn't catch that. There really was a nice differentiation between all the different environments, and all the environments we completely different from one another. Good eye girl!
Hi, Jill. Thought I'd comment on your review of "One Hour Photo".
ReplyDeleteI also noticed the color shifting when the scenes changed. I thought the interior of the store was pretty sterile. Everything was in pale white of bright blue. This conflicted with the opening credits, as we see film going through the inside of the processing machine and being bathed in warm lights and red fluids. It was almost like the film processing machine were the heart of the store that "Sy" worked in. It was the only thing that he seemed to be "attached" to, and drew his life from.
The store also looked HUGE inside with them shooting it with a wide angle lens.
I'm guessing that your comment on the green colors referred to the scene where Sy leaves the store at night and walks out into the parking lot to his car. The lighting on the lot was not color balanced to white, and came across as an eerie kind of green color. I got the impression that Sy felt like an "alien" whenever he stepped outside the door of the store.
The scene that stood out to me for its color, or lack of, was when he went home to his apartment. There was hardly any furniture in any of the rooms, and everything else was extremely minimal. The topper was how his apartment was painted; again in mainly a pale white, similar to the store.
Nice touches that added to the creepy, alienated feeling of the movie.
Chris.
Hey Jill!,
ReplyDeleteI noticed the vertical images too. I agree that it was funny but I didn't like the movie, the whole creepy virgin Mary figure bothered. Which is weird because I love John Waters weird movies.