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To watch a musical or a movie musical, that is the question. Or maybe it’s between a movie and its musical adaptation?

Musical Movies: The Wrong Muse?

Emeraude Westlake, Content Editor
March 6, 2024
Films communicate stories and experiences by engaging our senses through imagery. However, we can’t immerse ourselves into the beauty of a film if we are constantly staring at the moving words at the bottom of the screen. Watching is becoming reading.

Subtitles: Diverting Your Attention

Melanie Yau, Assistant Graphics Editor
March 6, 2024
“I think most people view them as shallow movies just focused on killing people for fun, but they’re much more than that.” - Jack Rudy (‘26)

Scary Good?

Lucy Marek, Content Editor
January 7, 2024
“Killers of the Flower Moon” has incredible cinematography thanks to its vivid settings, unique camera angles, and special lenses. Head Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto explained in a Vogue article that they “shot [the movie] with a Phantom camera which [they] set to high frame rates — 700 frames per second. That’s why you get that slow feeling of euphoria and that exaggerated sense of excitement” in many of the scenes.

Killers of the Flower Moon: A Truthful American Tragedy

Ben Brown, Graphics Editor
November 17, 2023
Watercolors and Shutter Speed

Watercolors and Shutter Speed

Sajan Virdi, Staff Writer
September 18, 2023
“Oppenheimer” is full of breathtaking, cinematic graphics generated without any Commuter Generator Images (CGI), such as this monstrous atomic explosion shown in the background of this page. Director, writer, and producer Christopher Nolan explained that the graphics “had to feel nightmarish and terrifying in a way computer graphics never really could do,” so he took more creative measures to create these graphics fully real world.

Oppenheimer: A Movie. A Lesson. A Warning.

Ben Brown, Graphics Editor
August 23, 2023
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