tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130912260408301801.post7417262539136404870..comments2024-03-14T00:37:09.021-04:00Comments on Life Between Frames: Film Appreciation - Call Me SnakeLife Between Frameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18186028067136953502noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8130912260408301801.post-25429790944590595192022-02-06T07:40:16.582-05:002022-02-06T07:40:16.582-05:00Greetings!
I really wish I’d seen this review whe...Greetings!<br /><br />I really wish I’d seen this review when you wrote it, so my remarks would be timely.<br /><br />However, there are two things about this film that I’d bet you don’t know even now:<br /><br /><br />> accompanied by onscreen text and <br />> computer generated images<br /><br /><br />Nope. That was standard cel animation, crafted to seem computer generated. This is the future, after all…<br /><br />And indeed, when Snake’s Gullfire comes in over Manhattan we see a fine display of real-time wireframe graphics…<br /><br />No, we don’t. In 1981 the only computers available outside the DoD were the TRS-80 and early Apple models. Not even the Commodore C64 yet. The technology to do what we see still lay in… the future.<br /><br />BUT if you’re John Carpenter, you think outside the box. If computers cannot depict real - why, then use real to depict computers! Images of the result can be found online: Wooden models spraypainted black and then carefully edged and trimmed with white tape, then filmed in strong blue light! Hey presto: Wireframe graphics right there, rolling on a turntable track under the camera. Genius.<br /><br />The other thing, I just found out myself: I understand there is a real escape pod aboard Air Force One, but what Donald Pleasance climbed into… was Mork’s egg-ship, from <i>Mork and Mindy.</i><br /><br />No joke. Hey, it was available, cheap.<br /><br /><br />This is repetitive but interesting:<br /><br />https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082340/trivia/<br /><br />Steven Ford: The Secret Service agent attempting to break into the cockpit of Air Force One at the beginning of the movie is the son of former President Gerald Ford.<br /><br />One thing I'd never realized: Every character who says, “I heard you were dead,” dies.<br /><br />Yes, John Carpenter was truly at the top of his game back then.<br /><br />Baron_Wastehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10196038182565745864noreply@blogger.com