Fiction loves to surprise its audience with a plot twist. You either saw it coming, or you didn't. Surprisingly, knowing what's coming doesn't ruin the experience as much as you might think. However, for a plot twist to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/28/How-To-Do-A-Plot-Twist/Take a trip through Muscle Beach at sunrise with the world's smallest drone. Robert McIntosh brings us an amazing continuous shot that draws you in as it zooms out.[https://vimeo.com/218839072] (vimeo link)While watching...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/15/Muscle-Up/A ranked list of 100 things can be fun when you find your favorites on it, and enraging when you don't. A list of movie props could be just that, but this is much more. Every one of the 100 props that made the list has a...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/07/10/The-100-Greatest-Props-in-Movie-History-and-the-Stories-Behind-Them/Did you know that you might be able to tell when a movie was made by the costumes? Contemporary movies, set in the time the film was made, tend to use generic fashions so they don't become outdated quickly. Movies set in...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/07/10/Costume-Design-The-Hidden-Layer-of-Movie-Magic/For almost forty years now, there has been the persistent rumor that Star Wars was a mess of a movie that was "saved in editing." The evidence is the raw footage that has surfaced since then, although I think the trailer...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/06/08/Was-Star-Wars-Saved-in-Editing/Michael Tucker of Lessons from the Screenplay takes a deep dive into the latest Star Wars films to compare and contrast The Force Awakens with Rogue One. It's the difference between telling us a story and showing us a st...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/05/01/The-Fault-in-Our-Star-Wars/Sometimes actors go off-script while filming a movie, either intentionally or accidentally. It could be a last-minute idea, a joke, a way to cover up flubbing your lines, or just plain clumsiness. What's rare are those t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/14/Bloopers-and-Ad-Libs-that-Stayed-in-the-Movies/The 1972 film The Godfather was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and won three. It made stars out of several actors who were barely into their careers at the time. But it wasn't an easy movie to make. The studio didn'...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/15/Why-The-Godfather-Almost-Didnt-Happen/Haruo Nakajima was an actor and stunt man in Japan when he was tapped to play a new movie monster called Godzilla. It wasn't clear what the monster would be like, or how difficult making that movie would be. But Nakajima...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/03/13/The-Man-Who-Was-Godzilla/If you've been watching the BBC TV series Planet E... ...-a blockbuster, even. A lot of that is due to new filmmaking technology.[https://youtu.be/qAOKOJhzYXk] (YouTub...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/20/How-the-BBC-makes-Planet-Earth-look-like-a-Hollywood-movie/
