I just recently re-watched the classic French film La Belle et le Bête. I first watched it in my ninth grade French class, and I wanted to see it again. The visuals and special effects are surreal, and it’s fun to watch because in the forties, filmmakers didn’t really have many reliable precedents for making special effects. You can almost see them trying to figure out exactly how they’re going to make something work. I don’t want to shrug off modern movies as if digital effects are easy. I know that it requires painstaking skill to make those “work” as well, but the DIY charm of old movies like this is particularly inspiring.
–Claude
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