I think with Harryhausen, appreciating him is as much about what he was able to accomplish with the technology as the final product. The skeleton fight on Jason in the Argonauts has a dozen or so animated skeletons and three or four (can't remember) actors. To film it, that's three or four people going through a choreographed fight sequence a hundred moves long in wide shots with several of them in the frame with nothing to fight against. I mean--it was practically impossible to film. So there's the level of, that looks really cool, and then there's the level of holy crap how did he do that? I feel just coming from a CGI film world without knowing about what he did, it would be easy to be underwhelmed.
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Date: 2010-03-02 04:41 am (UTC)