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For a second, I thought this was Victoria...!:
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Dallas To Get Remastered In HD
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Garry
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southfork88
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Wow ! They look like images from Old Hollywood color cinemascope movies.
Toni
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Snarky Oracle!
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Shame that Katzman preferred the Spelling-esque flat-lighting because he saw DALLAS as "a cartoon" (as did Larry, by his own admission).
Cinematography -- like music score, direction, writing, editing, and acting -- contribute to the texture of the thing, and its relative sense of "reality". Which is important, even for -- perhaps especially for a "soap."
Bradford May's camerawork in Season 7 (dvd) does so much to make life at Southfork feel so palpably three-dimensional, the Hollywood studio shot interior scenes far more convincing as occurring in Texas than any other period of the show. The sense of place is so much stronger. Even the silences are somehow "louder."
Emotional subtext is an actual thing, and it's not just an artistically pretentious concept.
Cinematography -- like music score, direction, writing, editing, and acting -- contribute to the texture of the thing, and its relative sense of "reality". Which is important, even for -- perhaps especially for a "soap."
Bradford May's camerawork in Season 7 (dvd) does so much to make life at Southfork feel so palpably three-dimensional, the Hollywood studio shot interior scenes far more convincing as occurring in Texas than any other period of the show. The sense of place is so much stronger. Even the silences are somehow "louder."
Emotional subtext is an actual thing, and it's not just an artistically pretentious concept.
Miss Texas 1967
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OT but does anyone see the Victoria resemblance here?
Seaviewer
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I've always found it interesting that of the main supersoaps, Knots was the least like Dallas. I don't like to compare the two but if I must I think my screen name makes it clear which way I fall.
BTW, Homefront was created by Knots writers Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick, although David Jacobs did executive produce it with them.
southfork88
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Joanne Whalley-Kilmer (Scarlet O'Hara, 1993)OT ma qualcuno vede la somiglianza con Victoria qui?
Toni
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OT but does anyone see the Victoria resemblance here?
Funny you mention that because I always did! I felt as if Victoria was playing the role!
ErikKristensen97
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southfork88
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Yes ... but much less good than Victoria Principal as an actress and not very suitable for the character of Scarlet O'Hara.
Snarky Oracle!
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Exactly, all wrong for Scarlett.
southfork88
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Sorry ... Scarlett not Scarlet, in Italy known only as Rossella O'Hara.
I seem to remember this program was co-produced by Silvio Berlusconi who also bought Dallas to make it a success in my country.
bmasters9
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Love that one where whoever that lady is is wearing cufflinks-- you don't see women wearing those very often.
Laurie Marr
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Thank you for sharing these clips Garry. I am genuinely dumbfounded by the upscaling in the picture quality. What a fabulous job that they have done. It has exceeded all of my expectations.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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Enjoy this everybody, the blu-ray version opening of the shows last ever season.
Miss Texas 1967
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This doesn't look great to me when I put it on full screen rather than the embedded video. I can see the pixels the same as in the DVD copies.
Luke_Krebbs_Ewing
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I got it off YouTube.
So maybe you're right and whoever uploaded it on YouTube was pulling a fast one.
Matthew Blaisdel
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Yes, it's just the normal thing, nothing HD there. In Sheree J. Wilsons credit you can even still see those video disturebance stripes on the right side.
This is no different than watching the old DVDs with a Blurayplayer, SD upscaled with all it's flaws.
The credit font they used for the last seasons is really VERY ugly, that looks horrible. They should have created those opening credits still on film back then, that at least those would still look fine.
This is no different than watching the old DVDs with a Blurayplayer, SD upscaled with all it's flaws.
The credit font they used for the last seasons is really VERY ugly, that looks horrible. They should have created those opening credits still on film back then, that at least those would still look fine.
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