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A solution to cinematic budgets
For those, like me, who have yet to see scinema create
a balance between CGI dinosaurs and non-actor humans,
then I suggest one see Al Pacino's SIMONE, a brilliant
tour-de-force of ideas. Therein is the solution. All
of us who have read, with genuine joy, Michael
Crichton's 1991, unfilmed original script from his
novel, and had to suffer through the anti-intellectual
screeds of the 1993 popcornistic extravaganza (with
few dinosaurs and no "plot")...can now begin to think
seriously. My suggestion is to take the basic
technical framework of SIMONE, and create CGI humans +
CGI dinosaurs, and remake the 1993 film...or, as
Willis O'Brien wanted to do: a colour remake of THE
LOST WORLD based on the 1912 book without the Paula
White nonsense and actors-in-blackface. Fran Walsh and
Peter Jackson (and I thank them for the stunning
results) have taken OBie's original ideas formulated
with Edgar Wallace, and, in 1996, wrote a screenplay
about the Skull Island primate which, prior to
Tolkien, they wanted to produce/direct. This script --
resonating with the depth of ideas akin to Akiva
Goldsman -- should be part of every dinosaurology
library. I mention all of these, because CGI humans
are the way to present films requiring parameters of reality.
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