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I don't have anything to add to the argument just that I happened to watch Escape from New York this weekend and there's an epic "green laser grid" sequence as

I don't have anything to add to the argument just that I happened to watch Escape from New York this weekend and there's an epic "green laser grid" sequence as he flies in to the city! https://youtu.be/xxYmMRxnEic?si=J62FQIU-V7-9BI8x https://youtu.be/xxYmMRxnEic?si=J62FQIU-V7-9BI8x Edit: and apparently they did it with practical effects rather than actually animating with a computer? Seems like they were aiming for that exact aesthetic.

leoc 3y ago
> and apparently they did it with practical effects rather than actually animating with a computer? The same was (perhaps not suprisingly) true of the computer displays in Kubrik's 2001, apparently. https://www.quora.com/Were-the-wireframe-models-on-the-screens-in-2001-A-Space-Odyssey-actual-CGI/answer/David-Mullich https://www.quora.com/Were-the-wireframe-models-on-the-scree... https://twitter.com/2001archives/status/1010885260274352128 https://twitter.com/2001archives/status/1010885260274352128 https://archive.ph/npCBf https://archive.ph/npCBf https://archive.org/details/AmericanCinematographerJune1968/page/n3/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/AmericanCinematographerJune1968/... (Apparently more or less the first example of genuinely computer-generated or -manipulated graphics in a "real" live-action film or TV production was the Gunslinger's "Terminator-vision" from (the original, 1973) Westworld.)