From mconway@microsoft.com Tue May 26 15:33:35 1998 Received: from burdell.cc.gatech.edu (root@burdell.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.3.207]) by lennon.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA23662 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:31:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (RkX1T3o+5iz6jzs6U5sUvkIFI2bpDk4l@[128.95.73.60]) by burdell.cc.gatech.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with ESMTP id PAA15641 for ; Tue, 26 May 1998 15:31:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail1-b.microsoft.com (mail1-b.microsoft.com [131.107.3.125]) by wheaten.hitl.washington.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id MAA13938 for <3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu>; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:30:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by INET-IMC-01 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2328.0) id ; Tue, 26 May 1998 12:31:47 -0700 Message-ID: <4FD6422BE942D111908D00805F3158DF05B26745@red-msg-52.dns.microsoft.com> From: Matt Conway To: "'Jeff Pierce'" , 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu Subject: RE: Prospero's books Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 12:31:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2328.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Status: RO *Snicker* -- Yes, PB is pretty darn strange, and probably opaque if you haven't seen a normal rendition of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." I'd strongly suggest either reading the play, seeing it live, or getting a version of it on tape before tackling Prospero. At least it doesn't have the pretensiousness of a lot of French Stuff With Mute Clowns. Will you get a lot of UI ideas out of it? Of course not, but you will get a sense that film is a lot more than "close up, cut and long shot." Matt > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Pierce [mailto:jpierce@cs.cmu.edu] > Sent: Monday, May 25, 1998 9:26 PM > To: 3d-ui@hitl.washington.edu > Subject: Prospero's books > > > At 12:38 PM 5/25/98 -0700, Matt Conway wrote: > > > > Film's visual lexicon is incomplete in two ways, first, > film is constantly > > reinventing itself (okay, Film as Art outide Hollywood is > reinventing > > itself, but that's a different rant...). To convince > yourself of this, go > > see Greenaway's surreal telling of the Tempest, "Prospero's Books". > > > Ok, before everyone runs out to rent this movie and study the > interesting > visual effects, I feel it's my duty to warn everyone that > Greenaway's telling > is not just surreal, it's very surreal. This is one of those > foreign films > that make people complain that foreign films are inaccessible. > > You've been warned, > Jeff >