Another great director succumbs to 3Dementia: Christopher Nolan edition
Another great director succumbs to 3Dementia: Christopher Nolan edition
Jun 16
Despite finding “the dimness of the image extremely alienating,” Christopher Nolan foresees himself bowing to studio pressure and shooting something in 3D sooner or later. As Slashfilm wisely points out, it probably won’t be Batman 3, but Nolan’s been recently attached to some kind of Superman reboot, and Warner Bros. is likely to push hard for that to be shot in 3D; they even tried to get Nolan to post-convert Inception into 3D, but he dodged the bullet, claiming “We didn’t have time to do it to the standards that I would be happy with.” Phew. I don’t want my plot-induced headache to be upgraded to a full-blown migraine thanks to sloppy post-processing.
Besides grumbling about 3D, Nolan had some interesting things to say at the inaugural Hero Complex festival, so check out the full interview here.
(If you don’t know who Christopher Nolan is, then congratulations; you’re one of the sixteen people in the world who haven’t seen The Dark Knight. Here’s an Inception trailer, too, just in case you forgot what Nolan’s been up to lately.)
When 3D is finally accepted as a means of improving the visuals and that is all ill be happy.
The way 3D is being marketed and how studios are just post-editing it in, it will kill 3D. Hopefully in a couple of years 3D mearly becomes a symbol like IMAX, small, insignificant and in the bottom right hand corner of the poster. Something you can pay the extra bucks to see if you want the experience.
But films like Dance 3D, that includes it in the title and then it is post-edited will kill the technology. People are paying more, have higher expectations and being disappointed will kill it.
I cant see Mr Bay shooting anything in real 3D because he shoots with multiple cameras, usually one big one and multiple small ones. It cramps what on his shooting style.
When they create a camera the director is happy with replacing in 3D (to keep the studious happy) and it dosent interfere a whole heap then we will start to see better films.