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From my review of Beowulf back in 2007:
It's been interesting watching him continually try to push these envelopes throughout his career.
Robert Zemeckis has never been one to shy away from a challenge. For over twenty years, he's blazed one trail after another. He was the first director to merge live action and animation in a truly seamless fashion with 1988's Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. He filmed Back to the Future II and Back to the Future III back-to-back in 1989, before such gambles were in vogue. And now, he's championing the motion-capture technology introduced in The Polar Express and substantially improved in Beowulf.
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And before (in case?) anyone nitpicks, I did hedge/qualify the animation blend comment a bit. You could make an argument for Mary Poppins, though that utilized something called the Sodium Vapor Process to essentially fake a green screen before they existed. It's an interesting bit of tech that's still arguably superior to a lot of the techniques today, though I think of it as fundamentally different from the kind of insane blocking that Zemeckis did for Roger Rabbit.
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Definitely.
I particularly like his approach to effects, contrasted with someone like James Cameron, where the effects are very visible, very in-your-face. That stuff can be useful and I suppose I'm glad the tech is being advanced and all, but there's something a lot warmer and more interesting about Zemeckis, who uses it to, say, have Forrest Gump blended into historical footage. It's a perfect example of using effects to tell the story you want to tell, as opposed to the other way around. It's a practical effects sensibility applied to CGI, in a way.
I particularly like his approach to effects, contrasted with someone like James Cameron, where the effects are very visible, very in-your-face. That stuff can be useful and I suppose I'm glad the tech is being advanced and all, but there's something a lot warmer and more interesting about Zemeckis, who uses it to, say, have Forrest Gump blended into historical footage. It's a perfect example of using effects to tell the story you want to tell, as opposed to the other way around. It's a practical effects sensibility applied to CGI, in a way.
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