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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Or, at least, you can have animation as one end of the spectrum and live theatre as the other end but live-action film is an awkward hybrid of the two media that should not exist (With nonsense like the "live-action" Lion King remake I even kind of actually believe this)
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Or I could give my other, reverse take, which is that it's perverse that we still think live-action cinema is worth anything in an age of increasingly sophisticated animation and yet fumetti (photocomics) are still such an obscure medium compared to drawn comics
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It's kind of funny watching people on Twitter accidentally discover the fumetti genre by looking into the other stock photos associated with the Distracted Boyfriend meme and assembling a story around the models' random messing around
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(And those photos came from Spain, one of the former centers of the photocomic scene along with France and Italy, hence the name "fumetti")
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(My serious take about photocomics is that they're like silent movies and, to an extent, like live theatre, especially old-style big-auditorium live theatre We have distaste for them in the age of "realism" spawned by talkies where exaggerated acting feels like "bad acting")
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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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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect
Or perhaps, SHOULD be, more than it is, particularly as games increasingly seem to prefer realism.
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