Some films don’t just use special effects — they redefine them. From groundbreaking CGI to ingenious practical tricks, these movies pull viewers into worlds so convincing you forget they’re built on ...
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It’s true, on the most elemental level, that all one really needs to “make a movie” is a camera and a subject to point it at. Since the advent of the motion picture camera, people have been capturing ...
George Lucas looks at the Death Star. (Sunset Boulevard / Getty) Ever since I read media scholar Julie Turnock’s The Empire of Effects: Industrial Light & Magic and the Rendering of Realism, I haven’t ...