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Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by LilBytes »

cwillu wrote: post #11
sandworm101 wrote: post #2

>> But at the same time, I’m so happy that the digital revolution happened. It’s a bigger toolbox for your creativity, especially for night scenes. It’s much easier to light something natural, and to do something with less. No. This is why everything is so dark. With film, cinematographers had to hedge their bets. They could not risk a scene being too dark, something they would not be sure of until the film was devel…

Andor didn't really have any issues with that, IMO.

Depends on your TV, watching it on an LED TV was difficult, darks bled into each other. On OLED (and I assume Micro-LED) though it was just _phenominal_.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by lucideer »

ghaff wrote: post #6
meowface wrote: post #3

The cinematography, editing, writing, and overall feel of this show far exceed any Star Wars movie I've seen. I had long since written off the Star Wars franchise as a shameless cash grab since the original movies but they proved they could do something cool with it. I'd definitely watch a new movie if it were handled by the same team that made Andor. Prequel, sequel, side story, or re-telling of the originals.

For quite a while, the further the films/series are separated from the original trilogy, the better they seem to be.

Ironically Andor is one of the closest to A New Hope narratively.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by IshKebab »

I thought it was great except for that one scene where they're eating in the wheat fields... It's just so weirdly obvious that it's a set and you can really clearly see where the set ends and the green screens start. Dunno why.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by captainbland »

The main thing that impressed me about Andor is how they managed to make the Stormtroopers seem like a genuinely intimidating force rather than just a rabble of goons in costumes. It goes to show how much they elevated the believability of Star Wars in Andor.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by lucideer »

apples_oranges wrote: post #31
meowface wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I watched it for the first time immediately after finishing Andor. Definitely better than the other Star Wars films but definitely not as good as Andor. (I'm aware the showrunner of Andor co-wrote Rogue One, but Andor really seems like a different tier.)

You guys are excluding the George Lucas movies from discussion right? In my opinion nothing ever came even close and I gave up on SW after the second Kylo Ren movie. Rouge one was cool though, also first episodes of Mandalorian.. Should I really try Andor after all the bad stuff Disney made? A few days ago I watched the new LILO and Stitch and that was great, so maybe good people still work at Disney …

> Should I really try Andor after all the bad stuff Disney made?

It's difficult to articulate Andor's quality to someone who hasn't seen it & is framing it in the context of things like Mandalorian. I can't stress enough that it's absolutely not just a "better" tv show than Mandalorian, &c. Not only is that an understatement, but it's also a fundamentally different beast to those shows. It's in a different category of quality.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by tecoholic »

Everyone seem like to be discussing the show and none the article.

For someone who hadn’t watched the show, the article is a pain to read. The images are thrown in randomly, there is no relationship between the text and the images. Every images is pointlessly labelled “Cinematography of “Andor” by Christophe Nuyens”. The interview seems to have covered things in detail, like going into specific scenes and sets, and lens.. etc., but the accompanying images are utterly useless in showing any of that to the reader.

I gave up after a while.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by kriro »

I think Andor is a bit over hyped in this threat. I absolutely love it (especially the Imperial side of things) but saying it is better than the original movies is a bit too much. If you take into account the time and technical possibilities it's not even close. And the original movies have more memorable things overall. I mean the two villains alone are all time greats. The music is also better (imo).

But most importantly, I think Andor is less strong without the original movies. The looming threat and the Mothma high-society scenes become a lot less powerful. Same for the insights into the Imperial machine. And even the meaning of the Rebellion itself. I'd argue while technically great, well written etc. without the SW backdrop the storytelling suffers quite a bit.

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by lucideer »

buyucu wrote: post #40

Andor is absolutely amazing. After the shameless cash-grab attempt that was the Sequel Trilogy, Andor feels like a breath of fresh air. Denise Gough and Elizabeth Dulau are particularly good.

If Denise Gough isn't drowning in awards on the back of this it isn't a just world.

(albeit every single other performance in the massive ensemble cast was also excellent)

Re: Cinematography of “Andor”

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Post by dalanmiller »

sandworm101 wrote: post #24
sgt wrote: post #4

Andor is a masterpiece. I recommend everyone to see it. Season 1 is probably the best, but season 2 just continues the brilliance. Unfortunately there won't be a season 3 though - they're making a final movie.

>> Andor is a masterpiece. No. A masterpiece would not have any fluff. There are all number of scenes/characters that could be cut from Andor without any real impact. Entire scenes and characters could be dropped without impacting the narrative. (The entire forest planet sequence imho.) Andor is a product of the "for your consideration" form of review made popular by the Academy (oscars). Each scene is excellent. Eac…

What films could be categorised in this way?
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