The film I chose to write on is
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. It is a comic book adaption film directed by Edgar
Wright. The film was shot digitally on a Phantom HD camera. They used a lot of
different lenses, mostly consisting of Panasonic lenses. They had a lot of
digital work done in a few different places in the US,
but most of the editing was done in Canada.
It was printed onto 35mm film for release in theatres. During it's time in
theatres, it made roughly 31,494,270 dollars gross in the US.
The budget was around 60,000,000 dollars, so sadly they did not even get enough
money to be considered a hit. Besides this, it is considered a cult hit. The
film was shot on location in some areas in Canada,
mostly in Toronto. There were also
some shots filmed on sets. The film was then sent to different areas, some in
the US, some in
the UK, but
most of the processing and lab work was done by Deluxe in Canada.
afterwards, the film was released in theatres to a broad audience along with
advertisements running on television and other forms of media. The
Cinematographer for this film is Bill Pope. Bill Pope is well known as the
cinematographer of The Matrix Series, along with the Spiderman Series of films.
overall, he is known for being able to film good action scenes. His approach
with this film was to do some interesting shots for all the non-action scenes
while also switching up some of the angles during action scenes.
One
scene in the film that really stands out is the last battle scene between Scott
and Gideon. The sound design is very interesting in this part of the film.
First of all, you have the ongoing music that has to match the pace of the
action. Alongside that you also have the grunting or screaming sounds of the
actors, along with the digitalized sounds of the weapons and the pixelation
sounds that were laid over them. Also, whenever swords collide with something
there is usually a video game sound effect for the hit. The sound design during
this part is in part supposed to evoke the feeling of a video game, approaching
a final boss. The fast-pacedness of the sound design seems to grab your
attention and show some tension to the scene- that this an important battle
that is leading to a bigger one. The sound designer for this film is James
Boyle. James Boyle also did sound design for films such as Batman Begins and
the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.
The
director of the film is Edgar Wright. Edgar Wright is known for comedy action
films that end up having cult followings. One of his first popular films was
Shaun Of The Dead, followed by Hot Fuzz. He seems to be pretty good at doing
action and comedy together, and that is in part his signature. This is
obviously utilized in this film, which is in fact based on a comic that has
those same elements. He was indeed a fan of the comics when he read them, and
was interested in the project to begin with. He wanted to evoke the feeling of
video games in the film, along with somewhat of a childhood wonder. He wanted
the audience to somewhat feel like they were in the main character's daydream.
He directed the actors in a way to make it seem almost hyper realistic for some
of the scenes, and made sure that they acted perfectly for it. There is also a
lot he did to make sure that the music fit into the overall setting and feel of
the movie. Wright had always wanted to make a comic book adaption movie, and I
think the stylized way he did it was something that normally isn't seen in
film. He tried to make feel and seem like an action-comedy comic book, and it
came across really well.
For
the most part, the film Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is about falling in love.
Scott Pilgrim is dating a girl much younger than him when he meets a girl who seems
beautiful to him in an odd place- his dream. It turns out that she's real and
she just so happened to wander through his dreams while he was sleeping. He
begins to like her and dumps the younger girl. From then on he finds out that
he has to fight her seven evil exes in order to be with her. He fights them all
with hyper-stylized, almost dreamlike fighting skills, and he learns more about
this girl and some of her quirks. He finds out a lot about her past and the way
that she treats people while also growing out of his arrested development
towards being a responsible adult figure. at the end they are happy and accept
each other's problems and he defeats the evil exes. The film has a very
interesting way of showing the story of a romantic comedy. It could have been
done a lot more down-to-earth and less stylized, but it wouldn't have stood out
as such an interesting and entertaining piece of work if it wasn't for the
stylization. The comedy is used throughout in different ways, even in the
middle of action scenes to keep the audience engaged. The characters are well
written and interact well. Every action scene is a visual treat, along with
having a solid impact on the story and part of the girl's past. The film even
does a pretty solid job of adapting the comic, only leaving out a few things
that were not overall too important. The film does a lot of things that haven't
been done in film, and relate more to a younger crowd and the current
generation watching these sorts of films. I think that it is a very niche film,
but it is definitely one that will stay on people's minds for a while.
(Written in 2012)
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