The most colorful film in this picture came out in 1968. It has more color than the two space movies made decades after it, and old cameras have nothing to do with why.
Each strip works like this. Take a whole movie and break it into every single frame, the still pictures that flash past to make the motion. Shrink each frame down to one thin colored line. Stand them side by side in the order they happen, so the left edge is the opening scene and the right edge is the credits. You end up with one of these bands: a whole film's color, beginning to end, in one picture. A two-hour movie is about 170,000 of those frames, all packed into one strip.
The bottom strip is 2001: A Space Odyssey, from 1968. Look closely and it's stuffed with deep reds, electric blues, and streaks of purple and green. The director, Stanley Kubrick, put those colors there on purpose and used them to carry the story, the way another director leans on music. The boldest splashes come near the end, in the film's famous final stretch, where the screen erupts into pure color during the astronaut's trip through a tunnel of light.
The middle strip, all washed-out beige and grey, is Interstellar from 2014. The faded look was the whole point. Director Christopher Nolan wanted the dying Earth to feel drained and used up, and the crew pulled it off for real instead of on a computer. They planted actual corn, blew dust into the air, and kept filming until the green washed out of the shot. The dust and the dead crops are sitting right there in the color.
Up top sits Project Hail Mary, this year's big space film, glowing warm brown and orange. Most space movies lean cold and blue. The man behind the camera on Dune, Greig Fraser, went the other way and reached for warm orange. He even took cues from 2001 itself. He shot it on a modern digital camera, then ran all the footage back through real, physical movie film, because film carries a warmth that digital can't fake on its own. You can feel that warmth in the colors.
So the three strips are really three answers to one question: what should space feel like. A mind-bending trip, lit like a dream. A cold, empty place that doesn't care whether you make it home. And a world worth saving, warm enough to feel like home.
Ibarat bapak lu lagi bokek, tagihan listrik belum lunas...
Eh dia malah nekat traktir warga sekampung makan nanas!
Duitnya belum ada, tapi programnya udah digas.
Pas ditanya anggarannya dari mana? Jawabannya: "Tenang, nanti kita peras!"
Presiden Finlandia Alexander Stubb.
- Bisa Finnish, Swedish, English, French, and German.
- Phd.
- Triathlete.
- Sudah menghasilkan sekira 20 buah buku dan hasil karya tertulis tentang hubungan internasional.
- Kebijakan LN bagus.
- Sempat hadir di acara baca buku untuk anak🥳
Benedict Cumberbatch shows support for free Palestine
"This land, the lady of lands, the motherland of beginnings, the motherland of all ends
She was known as Palestine.
She forevermore will be known as Palestine”