Tag: filmmaking
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Complexity at scale
Alan Jacobs wrote about his admiration for two “enormously complex projects that only became possible after the Industrial Revolution”: the manufacturing and logistical challenges the Allies faced in World War II leading up to D-Day and the studio system in the classic Hollywood era: It’s hard for me to imagine how D-Day did not end…
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The grammar of filmmaking
Steven Soderbergh in an interview talking about the grammar of filmmaking: There’s a certain way you put a sentence together to get the idea across; you can fuck with that, but at a certain point you fuck with it so much the idea is lost. That applies to almost any form. When I’m on set…