Have you ever been on a film set? If you have, you know what a surreal experience it can be. Doesn't matter if you know the people making the movie or the material; the very nature of what goes on there, the hurry-up-and-wait work environment dedicated to capturing images and moments that are a willful fabrication of reality, is contradictory enough to create a mild existential crisis if considered too closely.
To put it in other words, such an environment is the quintessence of "movie magic." As unsettling as such a thing can be, it can also be transportive, with all the set building and costume designing and CGI coming together to create a more-real-than-real parallel world.
It's no wonder, then, that Hollywood has a long history of being enamored with itself. Other industries keep the machine of humanity perpetually chugging along, while the film industry and its ilk feed the soul,...
To put it in other words, such an environment is the quintessence of "movie magic." As unsettling as such a thing can be, it can also be transportive, with all the set building and costume designing and CGI coming together to create a more-real-than-real parallel world.
It's no wonder, then, that Hollywood has a long history of being enamored with itself. Other industries keep the machine of humanity perpetually chugging along, while the film industry and its ilk feed the soul,...
- 12/16/2022
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
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