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I thought it was an oddly insubstantial film, and part of me wonders if the<br />
reason I felt so detached from what I was watching was because of the actual process<br />
in which it was shot. It was so alien, and the way it worked on me as an audience<br />
member was so profoundly different, that it almost didn’t feel at the end of it like I’d<br />
seen a movie. There’s definitely going to be a market for theaters to show live events<br />
that are being simulcast in 120 fps, and I would imagine that sports done like that<br />
would revolutionize the way we gather to watch sports if we can’t go to the actual live<br />
event. Sure, a bar is a good place to relax, but if you could go to the Alamo<br />
Drafthouse, have access to that menu and drink selection, and watch something that<br />
is in many ways even better than a live seat, you’d pay for that, right? If I could go to<br />
a high-end theater tonight and watch a simulcast of a live show like Hamilton that I<br />
can’t get seats for, I’d happily pony up a premium ticket price.<br />
But here’s why I feel like 120 fps is not conducive to film, the way we typically<br />
define it. We’re already struggling with the way the workflow has changed with HD<br />
video taking over for film on an industry-wide basis, and so much of the effort in<br />
getting the switch to happen has been about making HD video look more and more<br />
like film. Doesn’t that seem strange to you in the broader sense? We’re replacing<br />
something, and in order to replace it, we have to make the new thing feel exactly like<br />
it even though that sort of goes directly against the nature of the new thing. But<br />
video is not film. They feel different when you watch them projected. They look<br />
different in how they capture color and light. Film is a photochemical process, and<br />
there is something about whatever it is that happens when you throw light through it<br />
and project it that’s really beautiful.<br />
I have lost myself in movies, and while it happens less these days, I want to<br />
believe that it’s more because of my own experience with the craft than it is because<br />
films have lost the power to do that at all. I remember being pulled into theater<br />
screens and simply disappearing into these amazing worlds that unfolded in that dark<br />
little shoebox. When you watch a film print projected, you’re watching the entire<br />
history of that print. You’re watching all the little things that mark each of its trips<br />
through a projector.
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