defective wrote:has anyone heard his defense of this?
I don’t agree with the idea that you can only achieve clarity through dialogue. Clarity of story, clarity of emotions — I try to achieve that in a very layered way using all the different things at my disposal — picture and sound.
tgk wrote:I don't remember interstellar being hard to understand. Which parts?
From the first press screenings through opening night, fans have been complaining about issues with the film’s sound mix. Reports say multiple scenes have the music and sound effects so loud that dialogue is drowned out. This doesn’t seem to be an isolated incident. It’s a complaint that’s been registered all over the US, Europe, and Canada.
Like interstellar the sound respected the medium the lens was in. Some of the dialogue was impossible to pick up in my viewing
Maybe he's trying for Frost's sense of sound?
consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense… The best place to get the abstract sound of sense is from voices behind a door that cuts off the words… it is the abstract vitality of our speech.
this is nolan tipping his hat to (and getting approval from) a dying generation right? thought this particularly with the sartorial exchanges between the civilian father and son
some of the tension building shots/droning music were too much for me...like I had to take myself out of it and be like "this is him trying to make me feel anxious/trapped"
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this was great, i really love mark rylance. cillian murphy was fantastic too and really dug the few branagh scenes. the scenes of the planes flying in to attack them were horrifying, especially the sound.
there was a fast-paced moment early on in this that evoked 'there will be blood' pretty strongly, especially the score - i believe a couple of soldiers running across a beach, maybe carrying a body? with the high dissonant strings
really enjoyed this and how much space it had in it. despite being very tense all throughout i was amazed at how quiet and stately it was, especially in the first half. like that contemplative shot of the soldiers sitting in the sea foam. interesting way of highlighting isolation even when you're surrounded by 400,000 other chumps
i did make the mistake of choosing comfort over 70mm in going to the luxury cinema, but it was still visually immersive
Buzz Fledderjohn wrote:there was a fast-paced moment early on in this that evoked 'there will be blood' pretty strongly, especially the score - i believe a couple of soldiers running across a beach, maybe carrying a body? with the high dissonant strings
Yeah, this was great. The weirder, more dissonant parts of the score seemed really helpful in terms of not over-manipulating emotions. There was a moment later on the beach, where there was a kind of looped, processed choir buried in the mix. That was really eerie and relatively weird for a super mainstream movie. All that stuff really makes it feel like they've earned the right to drop that weapons-grade, heartstring-tugging Elgar jam when the cavalry shows up.Toggle Spoiler
i wanted to love this because everyone's raving about it but i just found it so cold and dull. i liked the mark rylance parts but otherwise i could not give a shit about what was happening. i thought something must be wrong with me because the filmmaking is very impressive and the score certainly indicated that it was all very intense but i never felt it. maybe it's because the characters were such nothings idk. maybe i'll watch it again when i'm less tired.
Cillian Murphy's character broke my heart. when he asks the kid if George is going to be okay and he pauses for a few beats and just says "yeah," knowing he's gone - the waterworks opened up for meToggle Spoiler
Sound was intense. The dialogue was tough at moments but it definitely seemed on purpose. Never heard louder gunshots in a movie.
And the planes coming in on bombing runs - horrifying.
Also about 15 minutes in the evacuation alarms went off in my theater and everyone was escorted out, only to find out it was a false alarm. Alarms went off, exited to the parking lot, walked around the whole theater back to the lobby and to our same seats again really without breaking stride. Weirdly fitting start to the film.
harry styles was a real dick and mark rylance was a dick but in a different way as the most wise and noble of men doling out life lessons about bravery
thought the film did a good job of making war seem like an absolute shiter but the human cost stuff didn't move me
I get really emotional when I watch war movies just thinking about the horrors that people around my age had to go through, so like all these characters can be completely devoid of any personality and I'm still weeping when they look sad because my sappy brain fills in all kinds of detail.
mancubz wrote:i saw this in 70mm but the sound was soooooo bad i understood probably like 60 of the words in the whole movie
Same thing at my viewing last night. I feel like Nolan might have done this on purpose. I read somewhere that in Interstellar he intentionally didn't clean up some of the dialogue.
But in my theater I noticed the sound being shitty before the movie even started, so maybe it was just that.
The rest of the sound was good though... just that center channel had a funky tone and was all the way up by the ceiling of the theater, above the screen.
I think to some extent Nolan made some of the dialogue tough to distinguish, but only understanding 60 words does sound like something was wrong.