Wonder Woman – Iffy CGI Fokkers

The film producers went to a lot of effort to create an authentic First World War troop train by hiring the Bluebell Railway’s C Class engine and a number of pre-WW2 coaches to portray the train at Victoria station. Realising that Victoria station had been rebuilt in more recent times they even substituted King’s Cross station for Victoria as it looks more as Victoria did back then. The whole assemby was moved up there and back by rail in February / March this year.

So it’s a shame that things like the dynamic modelling of aircraft doesn’t match some of those values, but it is a short clip and of course the film is sci-fi inserted into an actual period in history.

Regards,

Dan

Of course, including a member of my immediate family who has just finished working on a major film project…

…but it is deciding what gets made, and how it is made, that defines the influence of the film industry on the audience of the films who see them at the cinema, and how, as the films message enters the popular consciousness, what influence they have on the popular view of ‘history’…

…not a problem if the story is ‘Wonder Woman’, not so good if it something less trivial.

The Uk film industry has more going on than just finished cinema releases. the technical knowledge and resulting skills are highly valued across the world and the money involved is keeping people in work.

…it gives the English another chance to feel superior.

The Engish are superior…..and the sooner everybody else realises that, the better we’ll all get along! 🙂

Besides, the films are aimed as much for nerdy Chinese boys now…

Exactly the point I was making.

I’m not being overly critical of ‘Hollywood’, my post are as critical, if not more critical, of our own film industry’s attempts at telling our own history; at least you have Hollywood, our film industry is little more than an annex of Hollywood, and although that has undoubted benefits (both ways) many of our population don’t even differentiate between a British film and an American one…

…against a backdrop of increased national dissatisfaction with all that is ‘foreign’!

No, not smug.

The issue of EU membership is discussed at length elsewhere.

Do realise that the aggrieved losers are more vociferous than those who felt the EU is a major disaster in the making and that bailing out early made more sense than riding it down to the point where the g-force makes it impossible to get to the exit. What you see on social media may not reflect the real world.

Nobody knows the endgame. Least of all me.

The above was just a little Sunday jest. Please take it as so from one who is a great supporter of the US and would prefer a closer UK-US relationship than a UK-EU one..

Moggy

Probably to prepare the populace for the results of a Trump White House.
Moggy

Pretty smug coming from a country many here feel committed national suicide in July. 🙂 🙂 🙂

I think you’re over thinking this.
Many films are set in America…so the bad guys/aliens whatever are out to wreak havoc there.

New York or LA makes an exciting cinematic target…it’s a bit less exciting if the superhero have to rush to save Lima, Perth or Liverpool.

Besides,the film a are aimed as much for nerdy Chinese boys now…it’s a case of film makers giving the audience what it wants…and as we see here…it gives the English another chance to feel superior.

Strangely, the paranoid fear many Americans seem to have for their own government probably plays a not insignificant part in film making in America.

British films, and television, is dominated by the plucky underdog, who’s boss is an idiot, but because our hero sticks to his guns, fights for the common man against the establishment, he wins out in the end…

…but then is terribly modest, is treated appallingly badly, and almost forgotten by history!

… and why are so many films dominated by overpowering action that predominately involves massive destruction to the United States?

Probably to prepare the populace for the results of a Trump White House.

Moggy

Who cares if it can do that flying in real life or not! It’s a superhero film its is not supposed to be factual.

No, not a problem in a fantasy film; just so long as the fantasy flying doesn’t tend to leach into the factual films too, which it does, probably because it looks more exciting, and the director will want it to be exciting because the script is probably awful, he’s just spent quarter-of-a-billion dollars of somebody else’s money, and he’s worried he’ll never work again! Probably.

Anyway, we do all realise that most big-budget ‘Hollywood’ films aren’t even being made for American (or Western) audiences, don’t we?

Why are the scrips so poor, what there is of them, and why are so many films dominated by overpowering action that predominately involves massive destruction to the United States?

Iffy CGI Fokkers??…Oh, the aircraft…I thought you were talking about the rendering artists. 🙂

Well, an invisible plane saves a fortune in airfield parking fees!

Even more so if you use invisible airfields 🙂

Who cares if it can do that flying in real life or not! It’s a superhero film its is not supposed to be factual.

Who cares about historical accuracy in a fantasy film?

Nobody in their right mind.

I think the beef is the impossible flight models. What’s the point of accurately reproducing an aircraft in perfect detail then having it perform manoeuvres that would rip the wings off?

Moggy

One advantage of CGI is that film makers can use this technique to show types of aircraft that no longer exist or where there are no airworthy examples left in the world. I for one appreciated the albeit brief appearance of the CG Dornier 17 in “The Imitation Game”.

And the appearance of a Beaufighter in the 3rd installment of ‘the Mummy’ trilogy, even if it made no sense at all. Shame the rest of the film was so terrible.

Well, an invisible plane saves a fortune in airfield parking fees!

I never did understand why Wonder Woman bothers with an invisible plane when she her self is not invisible?
I think the new film looks good. Who cares about historical accuracy in a fantasy film?

Yes, I saw right through it immediately.

Snafu, it’s invisible so you would not see it.