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Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by coldtea »

otikik wrote: post #190
echelon wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was referring to Parasite , which won six Oscars, including the coveted Best Picture and Best Director nods. That was two years ago, but it speaks to the new high water mark Korea is now hitting at.

Isn’t that a bit like saying that Australians are great at playing piano and singing songs and cracking jokes about religion because Tim Minchin exists?

No, it's more like observing that a region with 30%+ of the world's population is rising (economically, influence, cultural appeal wise, and so in) and another with a paltry 350M one appears to have had its heyday...

The US had a couple of Tim Minchins back in the 18th century too, and even up to the early 20th century it wasn't that much of a deal in terms of global cultural cachet.

As for GDP terms it only surpassed Great Britain around 1880 and then had its global share peak in 1960. It's been downhill since.

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Post by thematrixturtle »

echelon wrote: post #175
bozhark wrote: post #158

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Americans are paid a higher wage. Dollar goes further with exchanges

> Americans are paid a higher wage. For now. The rest of the world is rapidly catching up in pretty much every sphere. But take movies: America has but a paltry 330 M people. The appetite for "American" media will wane as India, China, and other vastly more populous Asian countries begin to produce Hollywood-caliber films. American box office increasingly relies on non-domestic consumption. Chinese films are doing bi…

I agree with your broad assessment that the glory days of Hollywood are over, but am not quite as optimistic on the future of Asian cinema.

Chinese media is crippled for the foreseeable future by heavy state censorship, including micromanagement of plotlines: can't do anything that lets the bad guys win or shows the state in a bad light.

I also note you don't include Japan, which is rich and has a population of 100M+, but with the arguable exception of anime has not produced any global blockbusters in decades.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by jahewson »

silentsea90 wrote: post #181
rockemsockem wrote: post #124

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My favorite comparison now is to look at what the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission cost. It cost $73 million (according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Orbiter_Mission ) RRR's budget was $72 million (according to Wikipedia: ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RRR_(film) ) Seems a bit crazy with that comparison.

Funnier still was a comparison between Indian Mars Orbital Mission ($73 M) and the budgets for Gravity ($100M), The Martian ($108M), Interstellar ($165M). ISRO (India's space agency) engineers missions to Mars for the price it takes Hollywood to make movies with Mars, space etc.

And all they had to do was have their scientists work 20-hour days!

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Post by random314 »

unmole wrote: post #164
dagmx wrote: post #147

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I have in the countless times this has been brought up. My high school had a Bose statue and taught us a lot of his history as well to try and reaffirm his greatness. In the end , I haven’t ever seen anyone show me anything that didn’t also require ignoring Bose’s significant ties to the Nazis to have a charitable take on the man and his followers.

> I have in the countless times this has been brought up. And you didn't come across any references of him advocating for authoritarian socialism? This was way before he went into exile or joined hands with Hitler.

Why dont you just cite Bose's arguments instead of stretching this argument.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by random314 »

bergenty wrote: post #191
dagmx wrote: post #150

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Your entire comment is a “so what?” You don’t think it’s suspect that major figures were excluded from the list? And they just happen to be the same major figures the right wing governments try and move away from. You don’t think being allied with the Nazis and never denouncing their views was an issue either? the movie had a clear political agenda to it.

Who did they exclude from the list? I counted almost everyone I can think of and more.

They included Sardar Patel and Shivaji, but missed Gandhi and Nehru.

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Post by jahewson »

agumonkey wrote: post #53
rcarmo wrote: post #22

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I’ve been trying to get to grips with FreeCAD for a few months and it reminds me a lot of pre-2.8 Blender - the UX is very opinionated and clunky, needs some serious re-thinking… (I am trying to avoid using Fusion 360, which has a much more streamlined experience)

Maybe it's the perfect time to rebuild it.

Why start from known bad point? Just build something else.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by jahewson »

dagmx wrote: post #134
unmole wrote: post #116

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Honestly, a lot of the criticism reads like a tin-foil fan theory. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And some of it makes me question the author's familiarity with the actual background. > he’s seen assuming a wardrobe that invokes his namesake Rama No, he assumes a wardrobe that invokes Alluri Sitaramaraju, the historical figure his character is based on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluri_Sitarama_Raju And this…

Bose was a socialist in the sense that nazis were nationalist socialists so I’m not sure what your point is there.

I can’t tell if you’re trying to be sarcastic? The Nazis were not socialist. The name of the party was itself a piece of propaganda. They had a burning hatred of socialists.

Re: Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

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Post by dagmx »

bergenty wrote: post #189
dagmx wrote: post #78

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That scene was good till you consider a few factors: - Bose was allied with the Nazi’s. I know it’s debatable whether the ends justify the means but he also held some fairly hostile views that are being used again - there were notable omissions of freedom fighters who preached peace , but more importantly, those who were against the division of Pakistan and India. I shared a couple links above in an edit, but there’s…

Bose “aligned” with the Nazis so he could free the Indian POWs captured by the Japanese which he then used to build the Indian national army. Also, the Nazis were fighting the British who in India were enemy number one. He wasn’t antisemitic or racist so his alignment is pretty irrelevant.

This is a provably false retcon of history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose?wprov=sfti...

He went to Germany to escape the British after a failed insurrection and hoped to ally with the Nazi’s to lead an invasion into India to free it. The Japanese prisoners of war

You’re conflating his later efforts in Japan with his initial allyship with the Nazi party.

This is a very common smudging of history that happens in our Indian history books (the CBSE approved books in particular do this) to make things seem more justified.

> "I swear by God this holy oath that I will obey the leader of the German race and state, Adolf Hitler, as the commander of the German armed forces in the fight for India, whose leader is Subhas Chandra Bose".

This is alignment in every way, so I’m not sure why you’d put that in quotes.

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Post by Onewildgamer »

amelius wrote: post #207

If only 10% of the efforts going into special effects these days went into the actual story ... Eye candy can contribute only so much to a movie. Spend 10x the budget on special effects and the movie will get at most 1% better, sometimes it gets even worse. Superman 1 was much more enjoyable than most movies that came out of Marvel the last years.

Marvel has become worse these days, it peaked at Infinity War, then a slow decline since then. I'm looking forward to a franchise or a movie that's entertaining as the first Star Wars trilogy.

That being said, if you like the story you'd really appreciate the movie RRR. I was pleasantly surprised when I went there without any expectation.

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Post by tomcam »

tooltower wrote: post #132
tomcam wrote: post #63

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Same. The movie was very fun and it was plainly obvious to me that they had a giant budget for crowds, visual effects, etc. Gobsmacked that this was an all-Blender operation.

I'm confused. What does budget have to do with using Blender? I thought a big movie budget is needed mainly for the labor and artistry, and comparatively little goes into software licensing. Is that not the case?

You should be confused. My thinking was unclear and you are quite right.
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