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[anosognosia]

Saw Ides of March the other day. It was actually really beautiful half the time. The other half, the shots had a weird kind of tension in them, but I was crushing on Gosling enough to be charitable and consider the tension intentional. In either case, good on Clooney: I think he may be capable of direction

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[asylum_at_sea]

Oh, and have you seen all of Miyazaki's films? Pretty much everyone of those is lush, despite being animation.

[mybodymycoffin]

Pretty much everyone of those is lush, despite being animation.

Whoa -- "Despite"? Those are fighting words, son.

[asylum_at_sea]

I just mean that it's typically harder for animation to be lush than photography: in camera photography, you just find a compelling image already existing in nature, etc, but in animation, you gotta make it from scratch.

Don't get me wrong, I love anime! The poisonous forest in Nausicaa is one of the most powerful set of images I can think of in any film ever.

[mybodymycoffin]

Yeah, it's a ridiculous labor. I originally wanted to be an animator until I realized that I could never survive the level of monotony required.