oldfilmsflicker:

thefilmfatale:

Directors Martin Scorsese and James Cameron have different ideas about the use of CGI in film:

“My big concern is that the image, ultimately, with CGI, I don’t know if our younger generation is believing anything anymore on screen. It’s not real.” - Martin Scorsese

“When was it ever real? There was kind of a wall there and nothing over there. There are 30 people standing around. There’s a guy with a boom mic, there’s another guy up on a ladder with his ass crack hanging out. There’s fake rain. Your ‘street, night exterior New York’ was a ‘day, interior Burbank’. What was ever real?” - James Cameron

the thing is, James Cameron, you are wrong. what Scorsese means, is like how Spielberg used animatronic dinosaurs aka SOMETHING TANGIBLE and then enhanced them with CGI, so they could do more than the puppets could actually do. that way, you had something REAL at the core of the image, enhanced by the CGI and that is why the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park still look so much better than anything that has been done solely on the computer. 

I agree with Oldfilmsflicker, i like the tangibility of practical effects, they’re something the actors play against and respond to as opposed it all being done in post. Amazing things can be done in post and I have a huge amount of respect for CGI effects studios but it isn’t and doesn’t feel the same.