Yet Gravity seems to have distilled a mood amongst those who value the technique. In fact most people I watch movies with respond similarly, that they think 3D is annoying and exploitative, only existing to charge extra for making you wear silly glasses. Even blockbuster behemoths like Michael Bay and Christopher Nolan have spoken out against the form, the latter famously declining down the request to have Inception shot in 3D. Many contemporary film makers are equally sceptical of the form. Nothing was working, it was just a gimmick to steal money from the audience.” Take 2010’s Clash of the Titans, of which the director Louis Leterrier eventually said “It was absolutely horrible, the 3D.
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One critic wrote “It is the worst movie in my rather faltering memory, and my hangover from it was so painful that I immediately went to see a two-dimensional movie for relief.” So does that mean we have learnt our lesson? Well not necessarily. Unlike Gravity which is currently sitting on 97% on Rotten Tomatoes, the reviews of Bwana Devil weren’t too kind. It was pulpy and excessive, but audiences outgrew it. The ‘golden era’ of 3D gradually declined. Seats were filled, but many of the end results were clumsy.
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Many more 3D movies were released in this period, opting for full on spectacle they ranged in title from ‘House of Wax’ to ‘Robot Monster’. Following the release of Bwana Devil a decade long fascination with the process began. It was a commercially driven creation, in the light of waning box office sales, many thought that 3D ‘natural vision’ was just the gimmick to bring audiences back into the theatres. Only difference being that Bwana Devil was the first 3D feature film ever released. Much like Cuarón, Oboler was was attempted to take a thrilling story, set in an unforgivable environment, and amplify the viewing experience using groundbreaking technology. The movie was an huge event set in British Uganda, railway workers find construction interrupted by a pair of man-eating lions, it is then up to British overseer Jack Hayward to capture and kill the lions.
How do we understand the true realisation, limits and possibilities of this form of cinema? What defines good 3D and bad 3D?Ħ6 years ago, this very week, United Artists released Arch Oboler’s Bwana Devil. Something about that phrasing, “glorious realised”, fascinates me. The Telegraph, instead of praising direction or performance, remark on the “glorious realised 3D”. From the multitude of posters advertising Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, there is one quote that always sticks with me, long after the bus has pulled away.
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