Darren Aronofsky

[Kristofer]

You'll notice he is doing BATMAN: YEAR ONE, and not the classic Batman. BATMAN: YEAR ONE is a comic by Frank Miller, the man resonsible for SIN CITY, so I doubt that movie will be like other Batman movies. Also, skinhead, a person's favorite movies are their personal opinion.

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"Personal Note: When I was a little kid, my mother told me not to stare at the sun; so once when I was six, I did."
-Maxamillian Cohen in Pi

[andy_winton]

hi,

I remember when Pi came out and there was
a review in empire which talked about pi -

'unquestionably the best czechoslovakian
maths based thriller this year'

or something like that, made me laugh..

so I watched it, and I have to agree no
other czechoslovakian maths based thiller
I watched that year came close to Pi.


andy

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andy winton
(www.wintonfilms.co.uk)

[andy_winton]

hi,

I remember when Pi came out and there was
a review in empire which talked about pi -

'unquestionably the best czechoslovakian
maths based thriller this year'

or something like that, made me laugh..

so I watched it, and I have to agree no
other czechoslovakian maths based thiller
I watched that year came close to Pi.


andy

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andy winton
(www.wintonfilms.co.uk)

[zebra222]

Will someone please tell me why Pi is supposedly a great film? In terms of filmmaking: what are the film's winning elements? Thanks.

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[Davis]

LOL Winton, my girlfriend when I was trying to convince her to see it asked, "Well, what's it about," and I replied, "Err, it's kind of like a mathmatical thriller."

She still laughs about it.

Zebra, you really got to just rent it to see. It's very original and compelling, and the use of very cheap film actually HELPS this movie, IMHO.

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[Vlad the Impaler]

sorry if this is out of date now.......

but isn't the shot with the background moving called a Trombone Shot - were you track in / zoom out.... it was made by Hitchcock specifically for vertigo me thinks.... and used in jaws and stuff

sorry if thats wrong or no one really cares about that topic anymore.

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[thepreacher_naric]

Guys,

I have'nt seen the movie but if you want your background to move and the object your focused on to stay still, or visa versa the way to acomplish this is via "green screen". You film the moving object against a green or blue screen. You then can then mask out the green or blue and superimpose the still object against it. That way you have 2 films against each other making one peice of film. You can actually do it with Adobe Premiere.

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The pay-off from struggle is the most sweetest revenge.

[Davis]

You can do that, but it's hard to get the guy's walking motions realistic. It's much easier to just mount the camera on his chest like everyone suggested.

Vlad, they were talking about the kind of shot where the camera is mounted the the actor so he stays in the same position, and as he walks down a street the street moves around him but he stays exactly center.

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[eddie]

Pi is a low budget, 16mm arse kicking film.
That got general release. Well made with brilliant music.
You have to watch it to realise why its so raved about, you'll either 'get it' in all its grimey-passionate-low-fi-underground-stylee or you will think its shit.

And this other shot you are all going on about is the zoom out/dolly in paranoid shot that Hitchcock 'invented' when he made vertigo.



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[manwithplan]

Aronofsky used the same technique in Requiem as well. In the 'making of' featurette it showed a big camera mount rig type thing strapped onto the chest of Marlon Wayans.

Oliver Stone also used it in Any Given Sunday briefly although the camera was slung behind the player looking between his legs.

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