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Magic Mike...

David Mullen ASC said:
Actually, Kurosawa's suicide attempt was in 1971 after the critical failure of "Dodesukaden"; he eventually made "Dersu Uzala" (1975).

And you forgot one of his greatest films after "Kagemusha", which was "Ran". He also made "Rhapsody in August" after "Dreams".

Off-topic, but this is an interesting bit of trivia from Wikipedia regarding Kurosawa:
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Ah, yea. My memory slipped on Ran, placed it before Kagemusha in error. Yes, one of the all time finest films. (That red, yellow, blue color scheme would have been mind blowing on an Epic). But fading viability after a string of financial misfires were absolutely a factor in his suicide attempt, he viewed his career as over. It took Lucas and Spielberg to get him on his feet. Both his book Something Like an Autobiography and the Donald Ritchie book Japanese Film are awesome reads for the Kurosawa fanatic in us all.

So he was certainly a master til the end, but again, he remains one of the rare, rare exceptions, not the rule.
 
Can we shift back this thread to talk about the intended subject, like it or not (Magic Jack)?
 
My feeling is that once a thread reaches its maturity, (and this one has) any resulting offshoot conversation is fair game. Without it, the thread dies, so a mutated thread is better than a dead thread.
 
My tiny Kurosawa/Lucas tidbit: I was at Lucasfilm in 1987 for a meeting. Kurosawa had visited some time in the past, and there was construction going on. He saw some freshly poured concrete and signed his name. The construction plan called for the concrete to be covered with carpet or wood. They asked Lucas what should be done.

He said, cover it.
 
Luis, exercise some self-control and just avoid it? '-) Then everyone is happy!
 
Went and saw Spiderman yesterday and there were a lot of women wallking out of the threater from watching Magic Mike. It seems to be doing very well.
 
On the other hand, Spiderman footage is FENOMENAL...!!! I feel proud to say that I have the same camera that was used to produce such kind of footage. I was simply astonished when I saw it last night with my wife.
 
We went to see Magic Mike last night. Film print. Looked very soft. Not a criticism.
Fascinating choice of color palette though. Sort of faded vacation slides from the 60's look. Homage to old beach movie musicals?
Boy has the beach movie changed! :blush2:
 
Over $100M! Great job Steven...

Jim
 
And that $100m is all domestic. For a budget of under 10 million, he hit this one out of the park. I guess there really are a lot of "law breakers" out there.
 
magic mike is interesting. i enjoyed it. maybe a little too much dancing but i was laughing for most of the first hour. $100M that's great.
 
Sony Website is listing Magic Mike as a 4K release, can You confirm it? In Italy it will be out next month (late as usually!) let's hope we will get a 4K DCP as well :laugh:
 
My girlfriend is more than on hold. She's on ARCHIVE - ENCRYPT - EJECT - BURRY.
 
Just saw MM this week and really liked it. Better than I expected, honestly I thought there would be more dancing but it's about strippers after all.

I'm burning to know what anamorphic lenses they used though. they were quite soft on the edges on a lot of shots and I really digged the overall look. Even thought it has been shot on film, looked quite organic with lush colours etc.
Not sure though if it was a print or digital projection.
 
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