300

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Watched With: Myself

My 300th film for the year. It's only May too so there's a good chance I'll break my 669 film record this year.

I thought this would be a fitting film for such an occasion. This time I watched the bluray with the in-picture Bluescreen version. You can watch the whole film without any backgrounds or effects added yet, it's an interesting insight into how they went about piecing together the various sections of the film with a very limited space and sets.

The most interesting thing you can discern from watching them side by side is the way the colour grading was used to give the film the very high contrast look that mimics Frank Millers distinctive drawing style. There are sections with huge amounts of detail that just ended up becoming flat black once the grade was put over it.

It was neat to peruse over this one again. It's had a significant influence on style and subject matter in more than a few films that have come since.