My wife bought tickets to this documentary as a surprise, a surprise indeed. On Friday night we went to the movie theater and found out that it was a 3D documentary. I asked myself, how is it possible to watch art through cheap 3D glasses? I answered the question... well, the David is a statue and 3D will certainly enhance its beauty. Same with the architecture, beautiful 3D cinematography used wisely should be worth watching. So my initial thoughts turned true. The pine forest valley and the cathedral aerial views were magnificent, the river and the bridges, superb! So... whats wrong with this art movie intended for sophisticated audience?
25 years ago someone came up with the idea of colorization. A b/w film was processed by a computer adding color to flesh and a blue or red hue to men's/women's clothing. This was sacrilege! but it gave the studios some extra million sales of old films. Uffizi Gallery 3D/4k commits a worse sin, 3dirization! Church vitrals turned 3D! Botticelli 3D nymphs! Oops, big mistake. The documentary instead of improving the audience contemplation ability turns out to be a Spiderman movie.
After giving it some extra thought the problem with 3dirization is not that it was done, the problem is that the audience comes out thinking that the works of art are actually 3D. Yes, the renaissance evolves art an brings depth to the flat medieval art but that's it. I think that the director first should show the masterpiece in its original splendor and then use the 3dirization technique using a morphing transition between the original and the 3D version, then use the 3D version to educate the audience, thats why we are here for.
25 years ago someone came up with the idea of colorization. A b/w film was processed by a computer adding color to flesh and a blue or red hue to men's/women's clothing. This was sacrilege! but it gave the studios some extra million sales of old films. Uffizi Gallery 3D/4k commits a worse sin, 3dirization! Church vitrals turned 3D! Botticelli 3D nymphs! Oops, big mistake. The documentary instead of improving the audience contemplation ability turns out to be a Spiderman movie.
After giving it some extra thought the problem with 3dirization is not that it was done, the problem is that the audience comes out thinking that the works of art are actually 3D. Yes, the renaissance evolves art an brings depth to the flat medieval art but that's it. I think that the director first should show the masterpiece in its original splendor and then use the 3dirization technique using a morphing transition between the original and the 3D version, then use the 3D version to educate the audience, thats why we are here for.
