It's not another post about Gary Oldman

It's really about Bram Stoker's Dracula. I think this movie is made of lots of tiny little detais and though I think Gary is the greatest of all it's not another post about him. But as my boyfriend like to say he ignores my opinions about Gary Oldman, he says I'm too suspect to talk about him. Well... Let's start from the begining.

On Brazilian Valentine's Day (June 12th) I won a deluxe edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula with 2 DVD from my bf, as I told on my old blog. And yesterday we finally found time watch together. (what didn't really happened because he slept, due to the medicine he toke, LOL) In the moments he was awake he said: The special effects of this time were really poor. And I told him that they weren't and that Coppola wanted that movie that way and that for me it showed all director's tallent.

But, when I was watching the extras DVD I got surprised when Coppola said that there are NO special effects in the movie. That everything was just visual tricks. Coppola said that as the book was written in the early 1900, by the time the cinema was invented he wanted to make the movie looks like the first movies ever made. And no one can deny Dracula is a master piece, it's genious work.

Watching the extras I was thinking about how much cinema lost it's magic. My thought must have something to do with my nostalgic personality that thinks that everything that's good doesn't exist anymore, I'm an old school person, but I can't deny cinema lost it's magic and glamour.

I'm not a technology hater of any kind (I just don't like robots and AI lol) but the special effects are being too much used in the movies nowadays. You see, movies like Dracula with low-tech tricks show all director's tallent and criativity. It's all light, shadows, ropes, smoke, mirrors, turning the camera upside down, moving backwards, it's like magic. Doing the best with what's possible, with what's avaiable. Take a look at movies like Citizen Kane, Singing in the rain (did you knew that the rain was with white ink just to be better seen?) and even the first Star Wars that was in the begining of computer effects had the shadow and light magic that only the director poiny of view can have.

You see the other directors from Coppola's generation like Spielberg and Lucas are so fixed into action movies full of computer effects that sometimes forget the main thing in a movie: the story! Sometimes their movies are just meanless. I can't give less value than these directors have, I couldn't but they are also responsable for movie's loss of magic.

I hope the cinema can get it's glamour back again and that movies can have better stories and mix the old and the new things. Nothing can be wasted in the name of the good entertainment.