Someday I'll post in full my semi-trolling take that animation should have made all live-action film obsolete decades ago, in much the same way that cinema should have made live theatre obsolete https://twitter.com/loudmouthjulia/status/1264781496688226306 …
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(In order to tell a story effectively and efficiently using still photographs of real actors, the poses and situations need to be somewhat contrived and the facial expressions somewhat exaggerated and on-the-nose It's a style that both photography and film no longer like)
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(This may be why, like other otherwise neglected media -- including possibly silent film -- this medium has found a second life online in porn Lots of people getting off to captioned images or silent GIFs where no one cares about the "realism" as long as it gets the job done)
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I don't have a great answer to why I still go to a lot of live theater, but it is a different experience.
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Theater augments the shared live audience experience with live performance. To be in the same space as an unfolding narrative is an experience impossible to artificially recreate--until we have HD holodecks.pic.twitter.com/5hgzLsxX77
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