Apparently, there were
framing issues with the film's previous DVD releases — as if a cropped fullscreen transfer had further been cropped — but I detected nothing of the sort here.
Not exact matches
The movie's original DVD release back in 2000 upheld the
film's original 2.40:1 theatrical aspect ratio (along
with the pan & scan), albeit
with some reported
framing issues.
It's a brilliant
framing device that shows how the
film sees Internet communication not as a current events
issue, but an
issue of human relationships when faced
with endless nothingness.
The
film sees the Australian filmmaker uses the
frame of a crime story — about two low - level criminals (Scoot McNairy & Ben Mendelsohn) who rip off a mob card game, and the enforcer (Brad Pitt) tasked
with taking them out — to tackle the 2008 financial collapse and bailout, and many took
issue with a perceived unsubtlety in his approach.
-RRB-, only every now and then spicing things up
with the way he
frames Gerda painting from behind the canvas, there is not much to distract from the
issues at the core of the
film.
And
with Tom Hooper behind the camera shooting things in the most pedestrian way possible (a hallmark of his after
films like The King's Speech and Les Miserables), only every now and then spicing things up
with the way he
frames Gerda painting from behind the canvas, there is not much to distract from the
issues at the core of the
film.
The latter includes tweets, blurbs, «paid editorial» in reputable newspapers, explicating and celebrating the
film and its mythos, online features speculating on the
film's loose ends and on where Marvel movies can possibly go next, and fan commentary parsing
with Talmudic exactitude the sources of individual images or moments in the
film, tracing them back to specific
frames in specific
issues of specific comics.
In the class, we'll be working to understand and engage
with how climate
issues are / can be communicated and
framed, by analyzing previously created expressions from a variety of media (interactive theater,
film, fine art, performance art, television programming, blogs for examples) and then we'll be creating a show by the same name that'll contain interviews and student work.