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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 14, 2023 14:14:31 GMT -8
I started the same thread on the CGC forum but it might be fun to do here as well.
I've been turned off by Hollywood for some time. Probably a decade or longer.
I feel like they're more interested in social justice these days than creating entertainment and for that reason, I've been looking at most Hollywood movies with a much more critical eye.
I tend to turn towards Indy and European content for entertainment these days, as they seem to be more faithful to the art form and less concerned about greasing palms to be successful.
I think it would be fun to analyze movies and discuss things we catch in movies that are either mistakes, don't make sense or were likely intentionally placed in the flicks to catch people's attention.
Any move, any genre.
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I got the idea from this thread after re-watching The Dark Knight movie with Heath Ledger as Joker.
I started catching ALL SORT of things I missed in previous viewings.
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Post by vintagecomics on Oct 14, 2023 14:15:26 GMT -8
In this scene, Joker is blowing up the hospital after recruiting Harvey Dent. I've watched this scene a ZILLION times and I never noticed these things. For one, the building on the right looks to be an abandoned building. If you look at it before it blows up at the 55 second mark, all the windows are almost completely empty. It also looks like they "built" a bridge to the building across the road to link them, making them look like a hospital. The bridge looks much newer than the two buildings it connects. Speaking of new things, at the 55 second mark, check out the concrete on the corner of the intersection as the Joker's bus pulls away. The concrete is freshly poured. This makes me think that they made a new, 'rounded' corner to make it look more like a hospital zone at the stop sign and ALSO added a street lamp and a fire hydrant to make the street look more occupied. Additionally, if you look at all the street markings you'll see that some are new and some are old. For example, at the 0:55 mark the yellow street lines that the Joker walks over are fresh, as are the yellow markings on the curb at the corner. Like BRAND NEW YELLOW next to the BRAND NEW CONCRETE. And at the 1:17 mark, you can CLEARLY see fresh white paint all over the parking lots, contrasting with the old white paint in some spots. But the biggest giveaway at the 1:17 mark is that there is a MUD YARD behind the 'hospital' as well as train tracks and industrial buildings. This 'hospital' was likely and abandoned building in an industrial area that was converted to a hospital to make blowing up the hospital look real...but also cost effective. The illusions and dressing are made up by the smoke used to hide details, quick camera angles which don't allow you to see much for long, the illusion of sequential story telliing (Joker was probably walking through an actual hospital but when they cut outside to the explosions it was likely a totally different location but you wouldn't think so the way they edited it) and of course "spolosions". Noises and visuals cause your brain to fill in blanks without even realizing it. And so, there you have it. Once you lift the illusions and dressing, you start to see that meat and potatoes are not actually meat or potatoes and more like a fast food option that just looks and tastes like food but actually isn't anything like the real thing. Anyone else?
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