Directors Martin Scorsese and James Cameron have different ideas about the use of CGI in film:
“My big concern is that the image, ultimately, with CGI, I don’t know if our younger generation is believing anything anymore on screen. It’s not real.” – Martin Scorsese
“When was it ever real? There was kind of a wall there and nothing over there. There are 30 people standing around. There’s a guy with a boom mic, there’s another guy up on a ladder with his ass crack hanging out. There’s fake rain. Your ‘street, night exterior New York’ was a ‘day, interior Burbank’. What was ever real?” – James Cameron
Things that are real in that list:
- kind of a wall: it’s still made of real material.
- 30 People Standing Around.
- Guy with a boom mic.
- Ladder.
- Guy with his ass crack hanging out, that’s definitely real.
- Fake rain isn’t from the sky, but it is still made of real water. Your brain knows this most of all.
- Burbank is a real place, albeit barely.
Jokes aside, all of these things help ground images in reality, whether this new Techno-Cameron can see that or not. And in 20 years Aliens will be better regarded for its realism then Avatar.
