The remake was an opportunity to expand not just
the visual scope of the film but the story itself.
Inspired by a true story from the Civil War and rewritten as comedy with a romantic air and a happy ending, it maintains an admirable fidelity to authenticity in costumes and props — the imagery evokes Matthew Brady's Civil War photography — and
the visual scope of the film is not simply impressive, it is dramatic and cinematic and at times awesome.
Not exact matches
2001: A Space Odyssey is a meditative quest, an inspirational sci - fi
film that defies its genre in
scope and attitude, it is a
film of tremendous
visual impact and innovation.
Reviews praise the
film's
scope,
visuals, and shocks, though some think it feels too much like part one
of two
films instead
of its own thing
Ridley Scott talks the
scope of «Exodus: Gods and Kings», the
film's
visual effects, and the reason it was given a subtitle.
«Cloud Atlas,» by the Wachowski siblings and Tom Tykwer, is a
film of limitless imagination, breathtaking
visuals and fearless
scope.
As beautiful as the
film can be visually from time to time, the ordinary threads underneath the
visuals are not enough to sell the extraordinary
scope of the art or history.
«Robert Orci's Production Diary» is a tour through the shooting
of the pilot episode and its lavish 31 - day shoot, «Fringe
Visual Effects» gives a sense
of the
scope of the show's special effects by looking into a few key creations from select episodes and «Evolution: The Genesis
of Fringe» charts the development
of the show (it's nice to hear Abrams describe how he drew inspiration from David Cronenberg's
films).
Wish made a similar impression later that evening: all three
of us were pretty well floored by the sheer
scope of the show — which includes not only
visual art, performance, and
film, but literature and music as well — and the extraordinary roster
of artists that have called Buffalo home.