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Posted by Jay G. on 06/02/07 02:51
On Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:13:29 -0700, JackShephard wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 01:38:08 -0400, "Jay G." <Jay@tmbg.org> wrote:
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>>On 31 May 2007 07:44:27 -0700, elrous0@pop.uky.edu wrote:
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>>> I've said it once, I've said it 100 times: Widescreen TV's should have
>>> been 2.35:1 instead of 16:9.
>>>
>>> But seriously, 16:9 TV's have had the unintended nasty side effect of
>>> prompting EVERYONE to start making their movies 2.35:1, even when it's
>>> not appropriate. 2.35:1 is for EPIC films, for films with scale over
>>> close-up (great for westerns, terrible for character pieces). Yet now,
>>> everyone and his brother thinks they have to make their film 2.35:1.
>>>
>>> Tell me, does "Beerfest" REALLY need a 2.35:1 scope presentation?
>>> Really?
>>
>>You posted pretty much the same post about a month ago:
>>http://groups.google.com/group/alt.video.dvd/msg/3f1edc10c890d2d2?
>>
>>Nobody agreed with you then either.
>>
>>I mean, do any of these films REALLY need a 2.35:1 scope presentation?
>>Really?
>>
>>ABBA: The Movie (1977)
>>Ask Any Girl (1959)
>>The Apartment (1960)
>>The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
>>Bank Shot (1974)
>>Bedazzled (1967)
>>Big Trouble (1986)
>>Blazing Saddles (1974)
>>Born in East L.A. (1987)
>>Career Opportunities (1991)
>>Casino Royale (1967)
>>Come Blow Your Horn (1963)
>>Condorman (1981)
>>Crocodile Dundee (1986)
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> Blazing Saddles? Most certainly should have been just like it was.
My point wasn't that these films should be changed, my point was that
comedies have been utilizing the 2.35:1 aspect ratio in a decidedly
non-epic way for decades, long before 16:9 TV was even a consideration.
According to elroy's argument, Beerfest is somehow not "deserving" of the
2.35:1, like a movie has to prove it "needs" a particular aspect ratio to
be filmed in it. By his logic, apparently only EPICs can be filmed in that
aspect ratio, and I was showing that nobody has *ever* agreed with that
assertion, either on the side of the filmmakers or on the side of the
viewers.
I mean, say what you will of "Born in East L.A.," but it seems highly
doubtful people were walking out of the theaters it screened in saying,
"man, that movie was in the *wrong* aspect ratio!"
-Jay
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