• Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
    92·
    7 days ago

    Oh you mean the question isn’t just “how did they do that” but rather “how did they do that, that’s impossible without CGI (which is a modern thing)”. That… makes sense.

    Edit: since this is apparently not entirely clear: everything inside quotation marks is a hypothetical quote, including everything inside parentheses.

        • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          23·
          7 days ago

          I don’t care about the hypothetical kids, I was responding to you who put ‘which is a modern thing’ in a parenthetical.

          • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
            51·
            7 days ago

            I was quoting the question that I assume the hypothetical kids were actually asking instead of “how did they do that”. The whole scenario only makes sense to me if they think CGI didn’t exist back then, in ye olden thymes, when The Princess Bride was made, and they can’t fathom how anything was done without CGI.

              • Lumidaub@feddit.orgEnglish
                2·
                7 days ago

                I mean, it’s inside quotation marks, I don’t know how else I’m meant to indicate that it’s a quote. But alright, glad we cleared that up.

                • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  11·
                  7 days ago

                  Personally I would’ve just left the parentheses off if I was still speaking for the kids and not adding my own context. But indeed, I hope you have a good day!

      • drcobaltjedi@programming.dev
        1·
        7 days ago

        I mean, have you seen early CGI? A raspberry pi running blender can produce sharper CGI than any computer from the 50s. Sure it was impressive at the time but nothing even remotely passable today

        • vrek@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          7 days ago

          One thing to point out about that was the image quality itself. You could have a person “fly” by hanging by ropes but with the poor image quality at the time you couldn’t see the ropes. On a 8k modern screen it would be incredibly obvious.

          • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            7 days ago

            Also worth noting that while home playback was possible it wasn’t really ubiquitous until the 70s and 80s, so most people only saw the film once or maybe twice before they’d have to wait for it to come to theaters again.