Wachowski Brothers and the Speed Racer Movie

Steven Weintraub writes "Susan Sarandon talks about the Wachowski Brothers Speed Racer movie and confirms the revolutionary way the brothers are making the film — the entire frame will be in focus like a cartoon."

Comments

Focus is a tool

[suv4x4]

Focussing on an object draws the people attention to it. It's used as an artistic tool. If everything is in focus, then the public will most likely not even notice (unless they specifically check for this).

I hope they don't spend a lot of money/effort on this "feature", the way they did on the game-quality 3D graphics of the Burly Brawl (ref: Matrix 2).

Re:Focus is a tool

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe, just maybe they're a bit more imaginative than you.

Re:Focus is a tool

[sabernet]

When one is presented a vague idea or goal to accomplish, it always seems easy to those who didn't have to do it.

I can ask dozen different questions, each with a simple answer, but that most people will fumble at. Not because it is difficult to execute the conclusion, but that the conclusion is non-obvious from the offset. Only once it is presented to all the answers, including those to which you would find 'better' become 'obvious'.

Hindsight is 20/20.

Making a graphic novel into a movie sounds easy. The average shmuck(by your own logic, I suppose that would include you), might say "Pffft...The story was already written down and framed, how could they screw THAT up?"

But only once you realize that you have 2 hours of film, a certain budget, actors with certain demands and a market with certain thirsts does the enormity of the task become apparent. How would you convety something that takes 2 hours to -read- into 2 hours of action? And how do you pull it off without boring the snot out of people or resorting to the cheap trick of keeping the silly camera moving too goddamn fast to make out the shortcomings of the choreography(I'm looking at you Transformers and Borne Supremacy).

I happened to like V for Vendetta.

I loved the first Matrix movie, the second one was meh and the third one was crap in my opinion. They shouldn't have been done. But given the massive plot hole-ridden concept the original was based on, I guess they sorta painted themselves in a corner.

But besides all that, I will ask a simple question: how do you make a boiled egg stand straight up on a table without using any materials except the egg and the solid table(no tablecloths, salt, etc...

The solution is simple. But can you think of it?

The answer(in reverse, right to left):

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To prove my point, after reading the answer(if you could), the solution becomes far more obvious then it was from the offset.

The big problem is sometimes the average shmuck thinks of himself too highly to probe deeper then a superficial holier then thou, self gratifying way a la Simpsons ComicBookGuy.

Hmm

[Shinra]

I'll reserve a judgment until I at least see a trailer of the movie.

Re:Deep Focus?

[Oktober Sunset]

the difference is they add the words 'like a cartoon' at the end, instantly making it both revolutionary and really cool.

Re:Story this time?

[Phybersyk0]

How substantive do you think a movie with a girl who flys a helicopter whilst wearing a mini skirt and go-go boots can be? Don't even get me started on the kid and his pet monkey.

Re:Brothers?

[squiggleslash]

He's saying they're both the same thing because they both involve multiple still cameras. This, of course, means that the field of special effects has had no innovations whatsoever since the end of the 19th century, when motion pictures were invented. Anyone who thought Birth of a Nation, Citizen Kane, 2001, Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Matrix, et al, were in any way different to anything produced before them clearly was just imagining it because some of the technology they used had something in common with technology that had previously been invented.

Pretty light on details

[zero_offset]

I'm getting a huge kick out of these heated debates over such a tiny bit of crappy information. Sarandon says she doesn't understand it, then proceeds to give a really crappy description which amounts to "everything is in focus" ... and suddenly the /. readership are experts on the subject (and why it has been done before, and how they'd do it better, and why one of the Wachowski brothers chopping his nuts off makes him a sister, etc etc etc).

Personally I couldn't glean almost anything useful from the article.