Back From State On-The-Road (Rec. Beowulf ") returned after a grueling trip to ELEVEN! (11) hours all spent on state trust Hastur with the driving, I am here to update Odissea.Quale more appropriate name to describe the succession of countless villages unknown to finally coveted Ithaca (read: bed:)) Anyway as promised in previous post, a brief review of "Beowulf", which I saw recently at the cinema: Taken from the first written record of a Nordic legend, Beowulf is a new experiment by Robert Zemeckis (director of the innovative but already cloying Polar Express) in the "motion capture" or a technique of digital imaging through the application of sensors on the bodies recovered. Pushed to the nth degree in this film, to be extended to the facial expressions.
(Small aside, until a few years ago, the MC was used to leave "tracks" of bodies "captured" using the sensors as reference points. On these bodies were then constructed a "body" that would follow the movements of " mime "through the previously mentioned sensors. The first example is" popular "video was the Ghost of Michael Jackson.)
To be honest, in some moments in the film scanning is impressive, especially with regard to volti.Tanto to remain for a moment doubtful whether the good Zemeckis has not "cheated" on the inclusion of the faces not digitized figures animate.Tecnicamente the film still has "flaws" found in the weight of objects (in some cases totally absent, so as to reveal the falsity of coats and hand-held objects such as cups or chests), less often in the rendering of hair and in many poses of the characters. For the rest, at least on a visual level I found it excellent.
Unfortunately this is not enough to make a good movie. "
Intrinsically Beowulf does not offer much material to work with, in fact, compared to the protagonists of the great mythological epics "Beowulf" has its a "curriculum" as it were jam-packed with events (although the poem in Old English in terms of longer lines).
But to say that the plot is the weak point of the film would be lying. The story is sufficiently well managed by the director (though in some places is a bit 'slow, I admit), his biggest problem is that you have created, albeit magistralemtne a hybrid that still does not find a precise location. The opening scenes seem to show a piece of "Shrek", or a good movie in CG presentation of a video game.
This visual impact me personally gha catapulted into a world of adventure games and surprises for the eyes populated by ogres and talking cazzabbuboli hopping (making me a little 'yawn). But then we move inside of this banquet and see drunks pissing in the wind, whores who are groped, which shows the King in his pathetic figure of an old drunkard, in which falls the coat leaving it naked before the audience. And so the film, which at first glance he takes us on a log "light" catapults us into a world altogether crudo.Il film features scenes of partial nudity, language not quite "delicate" and scenes of horror discrete impact / splatter (significant Grendell yield). Then
between sudden bursts of dynamism, and long dialogues, the film runs quietly, not without a few winks in the world Nerd.
At this point, if sometimes a summary of the plot you have to ask someone else, because it is my Sleeping Beauty was a good quarter of an hour of film.
Ehhh I could not just more, I sprinkle ashes on their heads and critical step to a more "external".
What exactly is Beowulf?
It 's a cartoon that takes itself too seriously, or is it a serious film that can not be due until the end of his "dress" animated? In the first case it would be strange, there are cartoons that deal with themes as "mature "but without being crippled. Why? because they know they are cartoons, do not ask us for a "compromise" of realism, nor attempt to hide their true nature (think Ghost in the Shell, Akira, Howl's Moving Castle, etc ...).
In the second case, we are faced with a "mistake" or at least a hope "rejected" by effectively conveying a film through animation, for the same reason which can not be sopra.Beowulf Film.Per how you look is and will always remain a cardboard animato.Che harm? you might think, well, the fact that every virtuoso of light, close-ups on the scars or facial hair, texture delay on the best (most notably that of the skin), Beowulf seems to scream out loud "I'm not a cartoon, Alas in failing to convince.
A little 'more than acceptance by the nature of the Animated Film, and a little' less of "presumption", perhaps, would have improved.
Credit where credit is, of course, Beowulf, but touches on the glory of the Fallen.
And with this I close, good night to all, e. .. waiting for feedback:)
