CGI, Anxiety, The Last Jedi
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Is CGI Creating a Constant Desire of Completion?
CGI seems to impel camera movement. It creates this kind of corresponding desire of completion, maybe because the image can be complete in a way that the actual object can't be completely shown. I've sort of in my mind, I refer to this tendency in CGI cinema as the swoop. So anytime you get an impressive creature or spaceship or environment or whatever, right on screen, the camera tends to want to circle around it through space rather than just giving it an objective static shot. Even Marvel movies do this. Like when all the heroes are in like one place, it's like we go around,. it's like the Godshot of like, you know, of the superheroes.
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