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<body> <div id="header"> <span class="left"> <span class="back"><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT"><span class="image mobile_back" title="Back"></span></a></span> <span class="image mobile_logo" title="Beehive Forum Logo"></span> </span> <ul> <li> <a class="reply_all" href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43006.0&return_msg=43006.4"> <span class="image mobile_reply_all"></span><span class="text">Reply to All</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="navigation" href="#"> <span class="image mobile_navigation"></span><span class="text">Show messages</span> </a> </li> <li> <a class="main" href="#"><span class="image mobile_menu" title="Menu"></span> </a> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu main"> <ul> <li><a href="lthread_list.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Messages</a></li> <li><a href="lpm.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Inbox</a></li> <li><a href="lsearch.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Search</a></li> <li><a href="llogon.php?webtag=DEFAULT">Login</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="menu navigation"><a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43006.1">1–5</a></div> <div id="page_content"> <h3 class="thread_title"><a href="index.php?webtag=DEFAULT&amp;msg=43006.4">Napoleon (in B&W)</a> </h3> <div id="messages" data-navigation="43006_4_5_10"> <a name="a43006_4"></a><div class="message" id="message_43006_4"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: william (WILLIAMA)<span class="message_time">13 Jan 13:09</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 13 Jan 18:25"></span></span> <span class="message_count">4 of 5</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43006.4">43006.4</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43006.2">43006.2</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I don't doubt that money is made, in vast bucketfuls, and that the men who lurve the money do all that they can to make it. That said, I don't necessarily share your faith in the competence of money-men and women. I suspect that they may <em>believe</em> that what they do will haul in a few more dollars, and that the input of focus groups or whatever is useful. However, I also suspect that the genuinely effective levers they have available are far more obvious than applying a fashionable slew of gunk to the output of multi-million dollar optical equipment. Things like having a star name or two, a humungous advertising budget, loads of free publicity (which a film about Napoleon will get), and a big name director blah, blah, blah, are far more reliable guarantors of success. <br /> <br /> Of course, there are directors who fuck about with colours in other ways. Looking at recordings of stuff by Wes Anderson, I thought I'd screwed something up. But no, he means it to be that way. My own view is that whereas lush, vivid colour works wonderfully <em>in the Grand Budapest Hotel</em>, the washed out over-bright <em>Asteroid City</em> is irritating and his recent series of short films for Netflix, which have much in common with Asteroid City, are just wrong. However, I do applaud him for not simply leaning on the sludge button.</div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43006.4&return_msg=43006.4" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43006.4"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div><a name="a43006_5"></a><div class="message" id="message_43006_5"> <div class="message_header"> <div class="message_from"> From: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)<span class="message_time">13 Jan 18:32</span> <div class="clearer"></div> </div><div class="message_to">To: william (WILLIAMA) <span><span class="image post_read" title="Read: 13 Jan 18:33"></span></span> <span class="message_count">5 of 5</span><div class="clearer"></div> </div> </div> <div class="message_links"> <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43006.5">43006.5</a> In reply to <a href="lmessages.php?webtag=DEFAULT&msg=43006.4#a43006_4" target="_self">43006.4</a></div> <div class="message_body"> I quite like earlier Wes Anderson, when his ideas seemed genuinely fresh, and before he started making the pastiche selfies. I don't think he has worked on the scale or budget of noir-loving Ridley Scott, or been that big of a box office draw outside of the arthouse circuit.<div class="edit_text">EDITED: 13 Jan 18:33 by DSMITHHFX</div> </div> <div class="message_footer"> <div class="message_footer_links"><a href="lpost.php?webtag=DEFAULT&reply_to=43006.5&return_msg=43006.4" class="reply"><span class="image post"></span>Reply</a></div> <div class="message_vote_form" data-msg="43006.5"> <span class="rating">0/0</span> <span class="image vote vote_down vote_down_off" title="Vote Down"></span> <span class="image vote vote_up vote_up_off" title="Vote Up"></span> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> </body>