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Topic: The H8ful Eight is shot on 70mm :)!!!
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Elyas Tesfaye
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From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted August 13, 2015 12:15 PM
Hi all,
saw this trailer the other day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnRbXn4-Yis) and, knowing Tranatino, I wasn't surprised it would be shot on celluloid. The question I have, however, is this: at the conclusion to the trailer, it says to "Watch it in glorious Ultrascope Panavision 70". Seeing as almost every major movie house has gone digital, does he mean to do so literally :/? Anyone?
Best,
ET
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Vidar Olavesen
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From: Sarpsborg, Norway
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posted August 13, 2015 05:07 PM
I read 50 first too, but someone corrected me to 100
http://www.engadget.com/2015/07/12/hateful-eight-70mm-premiere/z
Do this link take you to the right place? I clicked it myself and didn't get what I expected. This is what's written there anyways
It's no secret that Quentin Tarantino prefers film over digital, and he's underscoring that point with the planned debut of The Hateful Eight. The director kicked off a San Diego Comic-Con panel with a video revealing that his Western was not only shot on giant 65mm film, but will screen in 70mm film before any other format. This will be a roadshow-style release where 100 theaters will put on a special show that might even recall the golden era of film, with overtures and intermissions. It'll expand to other formats after two weeks.
As for why Tarantino didn't go with smaller film stock? He argues that 70mm is good not just for dramatic outdoor vistas, but also for indoor scenes. It makes them "more intimate [and] more vital," which is important when The Hateful Eight is mostly set in one building in Wyoming. Tarantino adds that he also saw 70mm as a bargaining chip that would keep his movie on film. "I figured if I shoot in 70, they'll have to release it in 70," he says.
Not that he's completely averse to joining the modern era. At the Comic-Con panel, he explained that he saw digital projection as "HBO in public." If he eventually has no choice but to shoot in a TV-like digital medium, he might as well cut the middleman and produce for TV. It's just as well, he adds -- this would give him an opportunity to shoot larger stories instead of cutting things down for the movie theater. There's no indication that Tarantino is about to make a career switch (he notes that any talk of him calling it quits is premature), but you now know where he'd go if celluloid went away.
[ August 14, 2015, 01:36 PM: Message edited by: Vidar Olavesen ]
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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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From: France
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posted September 16, 2015 05:31 PM
Brian: no.
Originally, cinemascope in digital format is supposed to be obtained by placing a 1.25x optical anamorphic in front of of the regular lens in order to maximize the full digital matrix (which has a 1.9 ratio, in 2K, it's 2048x1080).
However, it's a big motorized beast that can be temperamental. It is very seldomly used. A lot of venues have either dumped its use or never used it. In most cases nowadays, the scope format is obtained by zooming into a letterboxed image to fill the screen.
The attachment is also useless now since the ratio for cinemascope has evolved from 2.35 to 2.39, and is even now in 2.40. And we see more and more intermediate ratios: Jurassic World was in 2.0, Tomorrowland was in 2.20.
In 2K, digital scope is 2048x858 pixels. In comparison, the Flat format is 1998x1080 (and therefore projects more pixels on screen).
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