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Hollywood Bets On a Future of Quick Clips and Tiny Screens

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The experiments get weirder from there. Steven Soderbergh is shooting Wireless, his cliffhangery suspense thing, his usual way—with a high-end digital camera aimed at actors acting. But since a lot of the character interaction takes place via phone, every actor also shoots their scenes with devices that capture their texting and video chatting. Their phones capture them through the front-facing camera, and another device strapped to the back shoots outward, as if through the rear-facing camera, for the phone’s POV. Soderbergh’s landscape edit will be the traditional one; the portrait edit will use the phone footage. You, the nominal viewer, will flip-flop between the two.

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It’s a mad mad mad mad world

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Stanley Kramer’s ‘It’s a mad mad mad mad world’ is a wild comedy caper. It has ludicrous situations and far-fetched comic stunts. But what’s really amazing about the film are the subtle themes that are showcased. Here are a few examples.

  1. An honest cop who decides to stray after all.
  2. A woman in a unhappy marriage suddenly ‘dreams’ a way out.
  3. Greed of common men when put in uncommon situations
‘W’ marks the spot

Touted as a classic, the movie has inspired many other movies in whole and in parts.

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Nothing can stop people from going to movie halls: PC Sreeram

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There is a debate on the threat posed by OTT platforms to cinema. What do you think of this?
It is more or less similar to what happened with satellite television in the 90s. Many movie halls used to have empty evening and night shows when satellite television became popular. But that didn’t stop people from going to movie halls — that’s the magic of cinema. When I was working on Padman in a remote village in Madhya Pradesh, I came across people who did not have money for their basic needs. But I learnt that two out of the four theatres there had houseful shows. I think OTT content will become monotonous sooner or later. I read somewhere that two such platforms have already withdrawn from India. The problem is, here, when someone comes up with something, 20 other people also jump in and eventually, it loses steam. Also, from what I have seen, I don’t think so many series with grey characters and gory scenes can impress people for a long time. Regional content has got its own strength and the audience will flock to theatres if they are given engaging movies.

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