of visual interest

[eliyes]

I always find it interesting to see the difference in how different cultures view or treat the same thing. The difference between the French and English trailers for a particular movie, for example. (The German ad spot for The Sentinel was radically different from the American ads I've seen, as another example.)

Anyway: the film RENAISSANCE is an interesting little thing. It's set in Paris 2054, which immediately gets my attention. It appears to be a mystery, where a detective is tracking down an abducted woman in a surreal, animated BLACK AND WHITE city. We are not talking grayscale.

Check out the original French trailer, and/or the dubbed English trailer.

Other visually interesting things:

Auroras in Nebraska.

A really pretty storm.

Comments

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

That storm is really, really pretty. :o

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. It's gorgeous. I wanna give it candy or soemthing.

[kiffie.livejournal.com]

Can give it a farmhouse. I think storms like them. :3

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Wait, if we have farmhouses to spare, I have a handful of artists and plans for a goat farm who need to be in this conversation.

[kermitdef.livejournal.com]

*watches french* "Hey, look. An action movie...maybe like a cheaper Sin City"

*watches english* "Hey, look. The Matrix."

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

Apparently she's been kidnapped by a geneticist who has an insta-forest in his apartment? One reviewer said of the movie to try to ignore the screenplay, as it's the worst part. :3 Which is about how I felt about The Matrix.

[naiveprophet.livejournal.com]

The animated black and white film intrigues me. It looks really amazing.

I'm so jealous of that aurora, lol. I've never seen a strong aurora here. My grandma once told me when I was young that many years ago there was an aurora that turned the entire sky blood red, and her friend panicked and came over to grandma's because she thought it was the end of the world.

That storm scares me. o.o

[eliyes.livejournal.com]

It does look amazing. I think it would hurt a little to watch, for me. Things in stark black and white play havoc with my eyes sometimes. I start seeing motion where there isn't any, especially in stuff like b&w checkerboard patterns and whatnot.

I've never seen an aurora. I understand those shots were taken with long-exposure, not just snapped, but they're still very impressive and beautiful.

:3 Storms don't scare me. Or, even when they do, they exhilarate me more.