The embarrassment of Zammicis

Once upon a time, "Back to the Future", "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", and "Forrest Gump" turned out to be several epoch-making works. With super avant-garde thinking and technology, Robert Zammicis became the master of film technology. One of the leaders, the scenery is infinite. But since 2004 when he brought his good friend Tom Hanks to the "Polar Express", Zammicis has been fascinated by motion capture technology. Even with poor reputation and low box office, he was still in "Beowulf" in 2007. Later, he won a group of stars and remade the classic film "A Christmas Carol" from 1951. The results of it? Not only did the audience not buy it this time, but the former club Disney also wanted to leave him, and Zammicis was still very interested in motion capture and planned to shoot the 3D movie "Yellow Submarine." On the other side, James Cameron, who once led the world's film technology trend with him, earned a lot of praise and money for his "Avatar". Comparing the two, Zammicis's current situation is really not an ordinary embarrassment.
It can be said that with the name of Zammicis, it is not a problem to invite stars, such as Kim Carey, Colin Firth, Gary Altman, Robin White Penn this time. The problem is, if you invite a celebrity, you don’t let people watch the celebrity. You use the computer to make the face ugly and greatly reduce the recognition of the celebrity’s face. Why bother? Furthermore, there are indeed a lot of special effects used in the film, but at this stage of the development of film technology, it seems that there are no special effects that cannot be done. The blockbuster has already become a pediatrics, but now it is expressed by means similar to cartoons, even if it has improved compared to its previous level, it is not very interesting.
The biggest mistake Zammicis made in this film is to make 3D special effects worthless. Excessive use makes them completely equivalent to ordinary 3D cartoons. For example, a fat old man dances at a dance party, which is obviously Divorced from reality, and since ordinary people can toss like characters in cartoons, it is not surprising that Scrooge will encounter various strange scenes later.
In contrast, Cameron is much smarter. He distinguishes the special effects scene from the real scene very clearly, and uses special effects as much as possible to show a world that people can't imagine, so as to highlight the technical visual effects while improving In addition to its contribution to the content of the film, the special effects are worthwhile.
Of course, Zammicis does not need to use the new technology exactly as Cameron did. In fact, he himself used the method of contrasting special effects as early as in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit". Personally, I don’t think that his new technology is destined to never turn over. Zammicis only needs to jump out of his enthusiasm over the past few years and carefully consider the integration of technology and story, as well as the use of technology to maximize its strengths and avoid weaknesses, rather than Put Bao on more and more stars. To this director who filmed "Back to the Future", I sincerely wish him out of this embarrassment as soon as possible.

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