A Scanner Darkly

uhrgl said:
Saw the movie last Friday at an art house theatre, pretty decent crowd. I liked the movie. Great acting, but it felt a little slow at a couple points. I haven't read the book, but I felt like the movie wasn't quite dramatic enough.

Can anyone who's seen the movie and read the book comment on the adaptation?
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The adaptation, from what I read, is almost exact with less details. Everything is pretty much there, just not in depth narration that explains everything. It's pretty remarkable.
 
Super funny in stretches. Great police state stuff(it's where we are headed.) Animation was a trip. Lacked something and became boring in a few sequences.
 
Roumor has it that this was shot on a DVX before the rotoscoping? does anyone have/find any behind the scenes pic of this film in production proving this?
 
I read the philip K Dick novel a few years ago, it was a great novel but if im remembering correctly it will be a little difficult to display in film. However if anyone could do it and do it correctly i would trust Linkwater to do so. I personally can't wait for it to come out.
 
I liked this for the most part. Though I have to say, I don't really see what the rotoscoping brought to the story. In fact, I feel like the story needed much more subtly to the performances. And it was probably there, but the rotoscoping gimick took me just one more step away from the actual acting, so I felt like some of it was lost.

Especially when you get someone like Downey on screen, I don't understand why would do anything to obscure him. He could have been the greatest actor of his generation, and as it is, he turned out as a bizarre freak who just winds up and goes, and who can quite effortlessly steal just about any scene you put him in - which ain't a bad thing to be. Anyway, I would do as little as possible to come between him and the audience if it were me.
 
"Linklater and Kelly shot an enormous amount of footage (at an 80:1 shooting ratio) using up to 11 cameras at once, capturing both 30 and 24fps material"

They Used 11 DVX's OMG i want to see a pic of that setup!:)
 
desperatecomfort said:
I liked this for the most part. Though I have to say, I don't really see what the rotoscoping brought to the story. In fact, I feel like the story needed much more subtly to the performances. And it was probably there, but the rotoscoping gimick took me just one more step away from the actual acting, so I felt like some of it was lost.
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I believe in an interview in Filmmaker Magazine Linklater said that he was only ready to do A Scanner Darkly once the rotoscoping was good enough ... because of the scramble suit. Can you imagine the CGI required to do that live-action? He pulled it off and much more cheaply than would have been required otherwise.

I do agree that the acting might have lost something due to the rotoscoping, but this was one of the first films where I've enjoyed Keanu in a while. I think it's because his dopey deadpan look rotoscopes well!
 
Hairy Lime said:
I believe in an interview in Filmmaker Magazine Linklater said that he was only ready to do A Scanner Darkly once the rotoscoping was good enough ... because of the scramble suit. Can you imagine the CGI required to do that live-action? He pulled it off and much more cheaply than would have been required otherwise.

I do agree that the acting might have lost something due to the rotoscoping, but this was one of the first films where I've enjoyed Keanu in a while. I think it's because his dopey deadpan look rotoscopes well!
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Yeah, I guess if he wanted to make it as he did, he would have to keep the budget pretty low not to get messed with. It was clearly not your average bear. But really, with Keanu as the star, is there really any amount of money he couldn't get if he wanted it?

I actually like Keanu in the right circumstances. I liked him in The Gift. But in the big budget things, it kind of doesn't matter. Like the Matrix, really all he had to do is show up and wear the pants.
 
Dvx on "a scanner darkly"

Dvx on "a scanner darkly"

Check out this months American Cinematographer for an article on the making of the film and a photo of the DVX in use. We only used 3 dvx's and about 8 canon ZR's for the surveillance scenes.
Regards,
Shane F. Kelly
DP of "a scanner darkly"
 
Thread killer. ;-)

Guess nobody wanted to reply after the DP posts!

All I'll say is, great job on the flick. You should be proud.
 
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