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IMO the 2000 mini-series had great acting and actually followed the books (a rarity in today's book to TV conversions) but the low budget really killed it. Many
by digitallyfree 4y ago
IMO the 2000 mini-series had great acting and actually followed the books (a rarity in today's book to TV conversions) but the low budget really killed it. Many of the desert shots were painful to watch and the sets had a very cheap vibe to them.
- AdamJacobMuller 4y agoThe desert shots were shot with a technique called translights. You're right that they couldn't afford to shoot on-location for the desert scenes so instead they painted desert landscapes and scaled them up then printed them on 40-foot-high by 200-foot-wide transparencies and put bright lights behind them to illuminate the scenes. They don't look anything like real life but they weren't really trying for realism as much as they were trying for artistry. I think that when you view things through that lens, what they did craft was beautiful.