Mifune's view on modern visual effects in film
These new films... so much light and noise. Where is the human in it? They create monsters with machines, but can they create a man's struggle? I saw the dust, the sweat, the blood in Kurosawa's films. That was real. The danger was real. This reliance on computers, it feels like a shortcut, a way to avoid the hard work of truly *inhabiting* a character. The camera needs a real presence to focus on, not just a shadow. It's an empty spectacle without the heart, without the grit. The pause before the strike – you cannot create that with a computer.
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