This involves
shots of Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman) helping tow a larger - than - life warship into an enormous dry dock, walking over expansive
mountains, and mingling with poor masses so gritty their dirt seems almost to smear on the
screen.
The actors are set against completely unconvincing green
screen backdrops or walk in long helicopter
shots through the snowy
mountains (a tableau that will be overly familiar to anyone who's seen a fantasy epic in the last five years (the fact that most
of the movie is
shot in New Zealand makes the effect more apparent)-RRB-.
His work is also strongly influenced by the Hollywood film industry: the
mountain in his Mountain Series is a play on the Paramount Pictures logo; Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights (1962) depicts the 20th Century Fox logo, while the dimensions of this work are reminiscent of a movie screen; in his painting The End (1991) these two words, which comprised the final shot in all black - and - white films, are surrounded by scratches and streaks reminiscent of damaged ce
mountain in his
Mountain Series is a play on the Paramount Pictures logo; Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights (1962) depicts the 20th Century Fox logo, while the dimensions of this work are reminiscent of a movie screen; in his painting The End (1991) these two words, which comprised the final shot in all black - and - white films, are surrounded by scratches and streaks reminiscent of damaged ce
Mountain Series is a play on the Paramount Pictures logo; Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights (1962) depicts the 20th Century Fox logo, while the dimensions
of this work are reminiscent
of a movie
screen; in his painting The End (1991) these two words, which comprised the final
shot in all black - and - white films, are surrounded by scratches and streaks reminiscent
of damaged celluloid.