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The Whole Plate Ep. 3 - Why Is It So Hard To Remember What Happens in the Transformers Movies? (Patreon)

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2017-05-25 01:22:53
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2022-03

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Important questions for trying times.

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Why is it So Hard to Remember What Happens in Transformers? | The Whole Plate: Episode 3

Auteur theory flows into film language, because Michael Bay loves him some film language (often without much thought to what the film language is actually *saying*). Today, we're going to talk about visual language, especially contrast and affinity, when it works and when it doesn't, and why the visual language of Transformers makes it so difficult for what actually *happens* in the movies to stick with you after you leave the theater. Also I finally said something nice about Christopher Nolan! https://www.patreon.com/loosecanon

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Paul Grodt

BRING THE TEXT BACK!!! WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?!?!?!?

Anonymous

Yes, but isn't the forgetting ultimately a mercy?

Anonymous

Awesome video! This was a similar problem in Adventures of Tintin. Don't know if you ever saw it, but in that movie, the camera NEVER, EVER stops moving. Even when the characters were sitting down and talking, the camera was panning ever so slightly. I think there were only 3 seconds where it actually stopped. So by the time I got to the paper chase scene that was one long tracking shot, I was so utterly underwhelmed.

Anonymous

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Anonymous

I personally don't get a sensory overload in Bay movies. While I've never really found the gag of Bay having an explosive fetish "too" amusing, I wouldn't say Transformers came off as the most appetizing of action sequences. I'm thinking I need more scenes with the guy in the control room looking at the radar screen or something to add perspective to what's going on either way. Don't really remember if Transformers had that kind of stuff, but Sam's perspective doesn't quite get there for that. Coming to thought, I think extended action shots work well when they're simplified with, say, two discrete people simply fighting, perhaps without music or something (along the lines of what you were saying with limited visual stimuli). Super-CGI robots with Michael Bay music and transitions to human character perspective gets a bit much.

Anonymous

Please post the text!

Anonymous

Briefly, how does a spectacle movie like Pacific Rim compare to Transformers?

Anonymous
>>5335502

Rewatching, yeah my post does agree with your video considering all points brought up. In a scene like Sam screaming after he's situated in the car, I can mainly clock the humor of people that find humor in that kind of stuff. People getting overly excited doesn't really humor me, but I notice when it makes other people laugh. I feel like this kind of scene will work for people that aren't absorbing the action fully, but also for people that will have more undivided attention to the action. It services both sides of the coin. Idunno, you're right, but the scene just kinda makes sense to me.

Captain Disillusion

Chanting "affinity of continuum of movement, contrast of continuum of movement..." is going to be part of my vocal warm-up from now on.