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| Que Bonito Amor |
While watching QUÉ BONITO AMOR - a telenovela which my brain
recognizes is flawed in dozens of ways, yet makes me smile from beginning to
end – we were treated to some dodgy CGI effects as the hero takes off in a sabotaged
private plane in an attempt to escape from police.
The effects made me think of the effects in another
telenovela that also starred Danna García, BELLA CALAMIDADES, where at one point,
the bad luck heroine suddenly takes flight in a flying machine created by a boy
inventor.
The effects were no doubt
ridiculous and poor, entirely unconvincingly, yet I absolutely adored them.
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It made me come to the realization that many of the
special effects I treasure most nowadays are those that are the most artificial.
Of course, there is an inescapable
artificiality in even the most stunningly convincing special effects.
Ultimately, none register as “real,” really,
because our brains recognize the events and images occurring on screen as
impossible.
But there was a charm in the
effects work of the past – in models, puppets, etc, and a sense of the human
touch that is largely missing from modern CGI effects.
It is a cliché to label computers as cold,
but the effects are depersonalized compared to the effects of yesteryear - I
long to see the fingerprints.
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| Doctor Who CGI shot |
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And how dull it is to try to approximate reality in
effects, the imagination of effects artists should strive for something beyond
reality, something magical and fantastic.
It seems only in the failings to render reality convincingly that I see some
approximation of the unreality which, of course, is the realm of magic.
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