The Analytical Hulk
Jan. 28th, 2013 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinFilm Crit Hulk, who brought us such classics as Hero's Journey is Crap and Five Act Structure Is Ace has turned his gamma radiation-enhanced film criticism powers on Les Miserables.
Couldn't have come close to saying it as well as that, Film Crit Hulk!
You can find the whole long but very interesting article here, complete with all-caps and occasional cursing, but dangit, this is important.
Aside from pointing out specifically where Les Mis went wrong, this article is a really good primer for people who don't know much/anything about cinematography, and why it's so important to a film, why its weakness in this department made Les Mis a weaker film than it should have been by all other counts, and why film people get so huffy about this sort of thing come awards season. Someday I'm going to put together a post with screencaps and drawings that lays out what I thought was wrong with the cinematography, but Film Crit Hulk is vastly more informed on the subject, and this article is definitely prerequisite reading.
Yeah okay I like drawing Tom Hooper.
(A thousand thanks to Stephani for pointing me at this link!)
BUT BECAUSE OF THE CINEMATOGRAPHY FLAWS, YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT CONNECT TO IT AS WELL AS YOU SHOULD. IT IS CONSTANTLY TRYING TO PUSH YOU AWAY FROM ALL THE THINGS THAT IT DOES WELL.
AND THAT IS TRULY HEARTBREAKING.
BECAUSE EVERYONE DESERVES A GREAT LES MIS.
Couldn't have come close to saying it as well as that, Film Crit Hulk!
You can find the whole long but very interesting article here, complete with all-caps and occasional cursing, but dangit, this is important.
Aside from pointing out specifically where Les Mis went wrong, this article is a really good primer for people who don't know much/anything about cinematography, and why it's so important to a film, why its weakness in this department made Les Mis a weaker film than it should have been by all other counts, and why film people get so huffy about this sort of thing come awards season. Someday I'm going to put together a post with screencaps and drawings that lays out what I thought was wrong with the cinematography, but Film Crit Hulk is vastly more informed on the subject, and this article is definitely prerequisite reading.
Yeah okay I like drawing Tom Hooper.
(A thousand thanks to Stephani for pointing me at this link!)
