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September 8, 2005
This needs to stop
My friend, UWF film student John Dagen on a movie device that has outworn its welcome. The oldest movie I remember seeing this in is Blade Runner. I think movie makers just assume we're too stupid to realize that a photograph doesn't have infinite resolution, and thus can't be magnified indefinitely. In reality, however, many of us who actually care enough about movies to go to the theaters to see them have used Photoshop and other similar programs before and so know quite well the limits of magnification.
Posted by donovan at 4:00 PM | Category: Film
To my shame, I still haven't seen Blade Runner. I tried to rent it through Netflix and they only had a pan-and-scan version in stock at the time, which I returned, since I'm way too spoiled with proper widescreen transfers at this late date.
Anyway, I'm tempted to think that Blade Runner, as it's set in the future, uses pictorial magnification in the same way Star Trek uses the warp drive: as one science fiction author wrote (I can't remember which one), "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The Enterprise can go faster than the speed of light --- a physical impossibility --- because they're using technology to fill the role of magic. Lots of popular entertainment uses science fiction in a way that's really just fantasy, and, though I haven't seen Blade Runner, I suspect a similar dynamic is in play here.
The problem is that since that time, it's become a cliche, and more importantly, isn't being used as a future magical/technological feat, but in *present day* situations!
Posted by: nougatmachine at September 8, 2005 11:13 PM
Arthur C. Clarke said that.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at September 9, 2005 2:00 PM
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