Anonymous
8/14/2025, 3:12:59 AM
No.213656577
>>213656294
>There's been digital editing for many, many years, and sound recording on a film set has been digital for many, many years long before the visual part became viable to be digital. I was really happy to get rid of editing film on the moviola, and happy to get into word processing and leave typewriters behind. You have nostalgia and affection for the past of typewriters, which I featured in Naked Lunch, but really you don't want to work with them. Those are from the industrial, mechanical age - all those things, including the moviola, which is like an agricultural thing, it's like a tractor, it's horrible. It rips your film, you can't hear anything, they're very clunky. What you want is something that works more the way your mind works, which is very nimble and leaping from moment to moment, and not in a linear way, but back and forth, and up and down in a sort of mosaic way. So I was really anticipating that. I wrote my first script on a computer in 1985. That was The Fly, that was the first movie I wrote on a computer, so I've been really - I've almost been living the digital era before it actually happened. What it's done is what I thought it would do, which is basically make everything much more easy, efficient and congenial. Things that would take you a day in the editing room take minutes now. For example if you wanted to compare three versions of a scene it would take hours to assemble, disassemble, assemble, disassemble, and by the time you were finished you forgot what the original scene looked like. Whereas with digital, you can have all three versions back to back and see them immediately to compare. It's just more efficient.
>There's been digital editing for many, many years, and sound recording on a film set has been digital for many, many years long before the visual part became viable to be digital. I was really happy to get rid of editing film on the moviola, and happy to get into word processing and leave typewriters behind. You have nostalgia and affection for the past of typewriters, which I featured in Naked Lunch, but really you don't want to work with them. Those are from the industrial, mechanical age - all those things, including the moviola, which is like an agricultural thing, it's like a tractor, it's horrible. It rips your film, you can't hear anything, they're very clunky. What you want is something that works more the way your mind works, which is very nimble and leaping from moment to moment, and not in a linear way, but back and forth, and up and down in a sort of mosaic way. So I was really anticipating that. I wrote my first script on a computer in 1985. That was The Fly, that was the first movie I wrote on a computer, so I've been really - I've almost been living the digital era before it actually happened. What it's done is what I thought it would do, which is basically make everything much more easy, efficient and congenial. Things that would take you a day in the editing room take minutes now. For example if you wanted to compare three versions of a scene it would take hours to assemble, disassemble, assemble, disassemble, and by the time you were finished you forgot what the original scene looked like. Whereas with digital, you can have all three versions back to back and see them immediately to compare. It's just more efficient.