I'm going to take an unpopular stance here but I must disagree, at least to the extent that whilst details were done relatively well (although no better than, s

I'm going to take an unpopular stance here but I must disagree, at least to the extent that whilst details were done relatively well (although no better than, say, Total Recall's recent remake) the photography was not. Here's a simple example: the chase scene to the water [1] vs [2]. In the first, you have a whopping 3 layers of background, the white water, the dark slum, the city in the back (and perhaps an extra layer of city) giving the scene immensity and depth. Even the proportion in which these layers cut the screen (each increasing in height and implied size with distance) help give further depth. The main character is clearly contrasted (including earlier [3]) and thus easily followed, with the eye naturally falling upon the action. The drawing is neat and the spirit carries over to the sound: the fight is punctuated by long periods of silence both of the ear and of movement ("Music is the space between the notes." - Debussy - to say nothing of the enormous importance of empty space in both Chinese and Japanese art e.g. [5]). I'll let you take a look at the movie version and see if you can find an understanding of these elements. Here's an unrelated example of what I mean by the spirit being done well: [4]. Listen to both the steamroller-like momentum, and the way in which the lower voice emerge from the texture about halfway. It is actually incredibly difficult to play like this reliably despite the relative technical ease of the work, Gilels almost makes it sound like he took one, maybe two breaths only (a subtle change of texture splits the work). [1] http://www.mangauk.com/gallery/albums/album-19/lg/gits_124.png http://www.mangauk.com/gallery/albums/album-19/lg/gits_124.p... [2] http://sm.ign.com/t/ign_nordic/video/g/ghost-in-t/ghost-in-the-shell-water-fight-clip_en8r.640.jpg http://sm.ign.com/t/ign_nordic/video/g/ghost-in-t/ghost-in-t... [3] http://images.static-bluray.com/reviews/10635_4.jpg http://images.static-bluray.com/reviews/10635_4.jpg - literally framed! [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu06WnXlPCY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu06WnXlPCY [5] http://www.theartwolf.com/landscapes/hasegawa-tohaku-pine-trees.htm http://www.theartwolf.com/landscapes/hasegawa-tohaku-pine-tr... More examples: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yHfLyMAHrQE/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yHfLyMAHrQE/maxresdefault.jpg http://thecabot.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-godfather-1.jpg http://thecabot.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/the-godfather... https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/sm/upload/bn/hi/lo/wd/yojimbo-1200-1200-675-675-crop-000000.jpg?k=092168c692 https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/sm/upload/bn/hi/lo/wd/yojimbo-1... http://moviemezzanine.com/wp-content/uploads/spirited-2.jpg http://moviemezzanine.com/wp-content/uploads/spirited-2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/DQuW037.jpg http://i.imgur.com/DQuW037.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K0c2HJ4AO6o/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K0c2HJ4AO6o/maxresdefault.jpg