Gravity, t3h movie! Imax 3d.

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Found this interesting (well to me at least) about how the film almost took a different turn. Specifically how it almost became a silent film.

Possible spoiler warning, proceed with caution etc.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/mov...olumn.html

I'll just pick out the non spoilery parts that I found interesting.

Cuarón was indeed ready to make Gravity silent, or at least wordless. Then he heard from his good friend Guillermo del Toro, who at the time was busy making his own blockbuster movie, the past summer’s Pacific Rim.

Del Toro was dead set against the idea.

“Guillermo asked me why I wanted to s--t where I eat. That’s literally what he said. And what he meant was, ‘Look, you have something that is amazing, conceptually it’s amazing. It has to be enjoyed, but you are just alienating audiences with that (making a silent movie).’”

Cuarón took the advice to heart, but he still had his way a little bit with that opening sequence, which approximates a silent movie.

I think Del Toro was spot on with his advice. No sound in the exterior shots would've been 100% realistic. Filming paint drying and grass growing in real time, is also 100% realistic.

But I doubt people outside of an art video installation crowd would flock to go see it. Though if it's done by an interesting studio\director, I'd be interested. Then again I subscribe to a Realism=\=Believability in a story theory. And I'd also pay money to hear James Earl Jones perform a live reading of a phone book. Not for the phone book, but for James Earl Jones. (I can't believe I have to spell that out, but some people may need help on that front.)

This one I quite like as well:

But for all of this talk of daring ideas and groundbreaking visuals, Cuarón also admits that he had something else in mind when he was making Gravity, something son Jonas wouldn’t let him forget.

“He kept on saying, ‘Make it fun! Make it entertaining! It’s a popcorn movie!’ It’s something that he’s so adamant about: ‘Stop your rhetoric!’

“He always criticizes my rhetoric.”