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The "where is the light coming from" complaints in the Scream scene seem completely ignorant of the fact that our eyes have such a staggering amount of fidelity

The "where is the light coming from" complaints in the Scream scene seem completely ignorant of the fact that our eyes have such a staggering amount of fidelity when compared with a camera that the filmmaker must compensate for that by overlighting the scene. You would be able to pick out details of a character's face in a dimly-lit room that only has external light sources because your eyes are incredible devices. To me, it's mind-bendingly tedious for someone to pick this apart and ask where the light sources are coming from when what they are going for is a mood as opposed to objective realism.

pfortuny 4y ago
There is a strip of “Mafalda” (a famous character in Spainsh-speaking countries) distinguishing between realism and reality: http://rubenrevecoarte.blogspot.com/2016/02/un-poco-mas-de-realismo-caramba.html?m=1 http://rubenrevecoarte.blogspot.com/2016/02/un-poco-mas-de-r...
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- deno 4y ago
  According to Google Translate: EEEEELÉH!... WHERE DID YOU SEE A REVOLVER FIRE SO MANY BULLETS WITHOUT RELOADING IT? A LITTLE MORE REALISM, WOW! WELL, YES THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT TIME TO BEING SHOOTING OURSELVES IN A SUPPOSED DESTINY FROM ARIZONA, BUT FROM GOING TO DRINK THE MILK REALISM, I SAID, NOT REALITY
  - ariasemi 4y ago
    native Spanish speaker here, I'm not a translator but let's see if I can do a bit better: > heeey! where have you seen a revolver fire so many bullets without a reload? a bit more realism, c'mon! > well, in that case this isn't time to be shooting each other in a supposed "Arizona gorge" either, but to have tea[1] instead > realism, I said, not reality... [1] "time to drink milk" to kids means it's time for an afternoon snack
Krasnol 4y ago
There is compensation and there is overcompensation. The frame displayed there is obviously too bright, and this is the point.
- heleninboodler 4y ago
  And yet somehow that is not at all obvious. It's a form of art. In my high school memory of sneaking into my girlfriend's pitch black house at night, I could see her face and the room every bit this well. That's the point. It doesn't have to perfectly reflect reality; it just has to evoke a feeling of a situation. And this does.
  - Krasnol 4y ago
    The author didn't question the artistic aspect. He says: > It’s a purely stylistic choice, employed for that one moment to cast doubt on Billy’s trustworthiness in the audience’s mind. It’s an extremely stagey choice that fits neatly within the larger series’ heightened, melodramatic style. Scream wouldn’t really be Scream without it. It doesn't mean that he's ignorant of the aspect that a camera looks differently than our eyes do, as you wrote above. The scene is not bright because of this fact. It's bright for artistic reasons, and you could describe it as overcompensation, since it wouldn't even have to be that bright to deliver a facial expression.
    - heleninboodler 4y ago
      In my opinion, the scene is bright because if we were actually in that scene, our incredible eyeballs would be able to discern a lot of detail, and in order to show us all that detail, the filmmaker must make it bright. If you make it dark to make it more "realistic", you are counterintuitively making it less realistic by making it harder to see what we would be able to see if we were actually there. This balance is part of filmmaking.
actionfromafar 4y ago
Came here to say this, but you said it much better.
aaron695 4y ago
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fauxpause_ 4y ago
The shout out for scream is an amusing choice as it’s very intentionally designed to attack slasher horror film tropes. It’s a great film. It was so genre savvy and ahead of its time imo. You can’t make too many movies like Scream though. It has to be the oddity that exists apart from the rest to really shine.

pfortuny 4y ago

There is a strip of “Mafalda” (a famous character in Spainsh-speaking countries) distinguishing between realism and reality: http://rubenrevecoarte.blogspot.com/2016/02/un-poco-mas-de-realismo-caramba.html?m=1 http://rubenrevecoarte.blogspot.com/2016/02/un-poco-mas-de-r...

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- coldtea 4y ago
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deno 4y ago
According to Google Translate: EEEEELÉH!... WHERE DID YOU SEE A REVOLVER FIRE SO MANY BULLETS WITHOUT RELOADING IT? A LITTLE MORE REALISM, WOW! WELL, YES THAT'S WHY IT'S NOT TIME TO BEING SHOOTING OURSELVES IN A SUPPOSED DESTINY FROM ARIZONA, BUT FROM GOING TO DRINK THE MILK REALISM, I SAID, NOT REALITY
- ariasemi 4y ago
  native Spanish speaker here, I'm not a translator but let's see if I can do a bit better: > heeey! where have you seen a revolver fire so many bullets without a reload? a bit more realism, c'mon! > well, in that case this isn't time to be shooting each other in a supposed "Arizona gorge" either, but to have tea[1] instead > realism, I said, not reality... [1] "time to drink milk" to kids means it's time for an afternoon snack

Krasnol 4y ago

There is compensation and there is overcompensation. The frame displayed there is obviously too bright, and this is the point.

heleninboodler 4y ago
And yet somehow that is not at all obvious. It's a form of art. In my high school memory of sneaking into my girlfriend's pitch black house at night, I could see her face and the room every bit this well. That's the point. It doesn't have to perfectly reflect reality; it just has to evoke a feeling of a situation. And this does.
- Krasnol 4y ago
  The author didn't question the artistic aspect. He says: > It’s a purely stylistic choice, employed for that one moment to cast doubt on Billy’s trustworthiness in the audience’s mind. It’s an extremely stagey choice that fits neatly within the larger series’ heightened, melodramatic style. Scream wouldn’t really be Scream without it. It doesn't mean that he's ignorant of the aspect that a camera looks differently than our eyes do, as you wrote above. The scene is not bright because of this fact. It's bright for artistic reasons, and you could describe it as overcompensation, since it wouldn't even have to be that bright to deliver a facial expression.
  - heleninboodler 4y ago
    In my opinion, the scene is bright because if we were actually in that scene, our incredible eyeballs would be able to discern a lot of detail, and in order to show us all that detail, the filmmaker must make it bright. If you make it dark to make it more "realistic", you are counterintuitively making it less realistic by making it harder to see what we would be able to see if we were actually there. This balance is part of filmmaking.

actionfromafar 4y ago

Came here to say this, but you said it much better.

aaron695 4y ago

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fauxpause_ 4y ago

The shout out for scream is an amusing choice as it’s very intentionally designed to attack slasher horror film tropes. It’s a great film. It was so genre savvy and ahead of its time imo. You can’t make too many movies like Scream though. It has to be the oddity that exists apart from the rest to really shine.