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[there's no Culture:Film category - or perhaps that's intentional]
Blowup was a 1966 film featuring a photographer in Swinging London, who, while seemingly not earning any money one day, accidentally shoots what he thinks is evidence of a murder. He, when the film gets round to it, is seen endlessly
enlarging increasingly grainy sections of the frame in question, onto large sheets of photo paper.
Remake this film but using today's music, today's fashions, today's digital photo equipment, and today's London. Let's see how far you get now, sonny.
Blowout
http://www.dvdmg.com/blowout.shtml
total drivel ! [xenzag, Jan 19 2007]
Roger Ebert on "Blow Out" (and Blow Up)
http://rogerebert.s...VIEWS/40318076/1023
[jurist, Jan 20 2007]
[link]
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Don't forget people's expectations of magical photo enhancement. |
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"Quick! Read the license plate from the satellite image!" |
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"No need! The satellite filmed his face reflected on that kid's glasses!" |
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"Exellent, we have him now! Run that face against the international database of criminal faces!" |
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It would work just as well with digital
images - that is, not at all well. In the
film he enlarged that section of the
print far, far more than he should have
been able to. It would have been
unrecognisable grey splodges when he
was about halfway through - instead,
crystal clear. |
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Wasn't John Travolta in a remake of Blowup in the early 1980s? |
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....yes - one of the worst films ever made.
It was called Blowout - see link |
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//total drivel//...Y'know, I think you add an interesting and semi-sophisticated viewpoint to this site, but I do have some difficulty when you decide to become an arbiter of taste, as evidenced by your polarized review of this film. |
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"Blow Out", as the voting in your link reflects, received more positive attention than negative criticism, and in my recollection that was true even when it was first released. I've watched it several times in a casual setting and thought it was well-produced entertainment. |
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I didn't see Antonioni's "Blow Up" until several years after "Blow Out" was released, and as a former film student wondered what all the original hoopla had been about, despite the lovely and provocative appearances of Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles and Jane Birkin. Which is not, by any means, meant as a disparagement of Antonioni whose now-sequestered version of "The Passenger" with Jack Nicholson continues to reverberate within me. Perhaps I have just never found a means or vehicle to properly appreciate David Hemmings' effort and talents. |
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//when you decide to become an arbiter
of taste// - I'm only the arbiter of my
own taste. Not sure what you mean ? |
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I've not seen the movie in question, but there is a bit in Blade Runner where Deckard does a bit of jiggery pokery using a photograph and a computer, and in doing so, helps develop a clue. |
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The Yardbirds have re-formed, so you could even have the same band playing (although without Keith Relf). |
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Wierd movie, Blade Runner. I liked the acting, but the plot was quite twisted. I could see the HRDs' wanting to be human making them seem like victims, but their senseless killing kinda contradicted that. Hard to feel sorry for any of them, except maybe the dancer and the one Deckard finally decides to save. |
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Doesn't this fall into the "Wouldn't It Be Nice If..." category? |
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//Don't forget people's expectations of magical photo enhancement//
I'm not so sure that this is a recent thing - I'm trying to remember the name of a courtroom drama (maybe a James Stewart movie) that hinges on reading a newspaper date on a wired photo. |
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