The Fountain

[avad]

Director of one of my favorite other movies, Pi, Darren Aronofsky has done it again...

I just watched the film 'The Fountain' and am in all tears and awe.
The visuals are gorgeous...the love story moving..and all through time time time as I love to go...

I have been following trails with the Tree of Life again recently...Yggdrasil...in friends posts, my friend Selima's recent painting...even running outside at night because of its sudden strange projection on my backyard...but I could not get any pictures(!)and heard the strangest scariest sounds(honestly I was creeped and ran back inside)...and now here it is in glory. If you've seen the film, take a look at my favorites folder on flickr...and you'll see why visually it is my dream come true...Eliav, Evonne, Daniel you must see this film.

Comments

[anansi133.livejournal.com]

I was right on the edge with this one. (I absolutely hated Pi, I walked out after I decided it wasn't going to improve.)

The imagery was wonderful. The whole reason I went was to see a non-CGI starfield. But the three segments didn't have enough to do with each other, and what they did have in common seemed... codependent.

I'd own this on Blu-Ray, just to have a silent visual in the background.

[avad.livejournal.com]

I reluctantly agree that there was much to dislike about Pi...I'm just the type of person that is so thrilled by the good parts (concept and visualsvisualsvisuals) that I deliberately overlook the aspects I don't like (in that case, much of the 'plot/storyline').

and in the Fountain...ohhhhh the starfield...swooooon...
btw did you see the flickr favorites pics I linked to? there's an artist on there who takes photographs of light through plastic...just amaaaazing

[avad.livejournal.com]

from wikipedia re: the macrophotography used to generate those visuals:

"Jeremy Dawson and Dan Schrecker, who had provided visual effects for Darren Aronofsky's π and Requiem for a Dream, returned to The Fountain to help the director with the film's effects. The pair were assigned with the task of creating as little computer-generated imagery as possible, a difficult task with a third of the film taking place in deep space. Aronofsky chose to avoid effects that would make the film look dated in several decades but instead hold up as well as a film like 2001: A Space Odyssey. Dawson said, "Using CG is really the easy route because it's so prevalent and the tools are great. What it did was really force us to come up with creative solutions to solve a lot of our problems." One creative solution was uncovering Peter Parks, a specialist in macro photography, who had retrieved deep-sea microorganisms and photographed them in 3-D under partial funding from the Bahamas government. Parks brewed chemicals and bacteria together to create reactions of which Schrecker and Dawson shot 20,000 feet worth of film in the course of eight weeks for The Fountain.[21] To create the effects, Peter Parks had taken advantage of fluid dynamics, which affected the behavior of the substances that he photographed. "When these images are projected on a big screen, you feel like you're looking at infinity. That's because the same forces at work in the water—gravitational effects, settlement, refractive indices—are happening in outer space," Parks said. The specialist's talent convinced the film's creative department to go beyond computer-generated imagery and follow Parks' lead. Instead of millions of dollars for a single special effects sequence, Parks generated all the footage for the film for just $140,000.[1]"