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Posted by Rich Clark on 05/07/07 17:12
On May 7, 9:50 am, NRen2k5 <nom...@email.com> wrote:
> Rich Clark wrote:
> > Cut off Mona Lisa's head because you happen to have a frame that's
> > more square than the painting. That makes so much sense.
>
> About as much sense as your comparison.
>
> You can make a copy of the movie and tailor it to suit your needs.
If you're one of those people who consider movies to be nothing more
than extruded product, I suppose you can. If you're someone who
respects the work and rights of the people who create art, then you'll
at least try to watch it in its "as created" form at least once before
you pull out your shears.
>
> What do you think a 1.33:1 movie is? It's just a professionally crop job.
Setting aside all the instances where that's not true, let's just talk
about the topic of the thread: arbitrarily cropping the sides off a
2.35 movie to fit it to a 16:9 screen.
Some movies that are shot anamorphically (eg, Cinemascope) are indeed
cropped "professionally." The image is panned and scanned in an
attempt to keep the focus of the action on the screen. But this can't
be compared to using a zoom function to crop the image, because the
cropping remains static; if action moves to the edge of the original
frame, it's lost. So even if one could somehow defend "professional"
pan-and-scanning, that defense doesn't apply to automated standard
cropping.
And then there are all the movies shot in Super35, framed and cropped
by the director for 2.25 or 2.35 presentation. The 1.33 version of
that film is created mostly by opening up the original Super35 frame.
If you let your 16:9 TV zoom in on the widescreen video of such a
film, you've now lost not only the part of the frame that was cropped
for the widescreen version, but also the sides. You're left with much
less than half of the original frame, and a version of the film that
resembles nothing the filmmaker would ever want anyone to see.
All of this because you insist that the picture be forced to fit your
frame. That's the analogy, and it works for me.
R
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