Movie Rewatchers - Vampire Quiz Answers - Screen X's Surround Picture

Are You A 'Rewatcher' ?

If you are, than welcome to the 'kind of weird' world of continuity. Or why you watched movie X at least 20 times.

Where was that scar on an actor's face - right side or left?  In one scene it was on the right, in another scene on the left.  Watching a movie many times brings up moments like that and other irrelevant facts and trivia that, nonetheless, evoke excitement to a rewatcher.  The discovery of wrong phrases, like when an actor refers to their co-star by their real name during shots.  Or the placement of  misdated props, such as a movie set in the 1960s but using 1970s cars.

But it is not just about continuity foul-ups, sometimes things get weird in the background but only reveal themselves after countless rewatchings.  For example, in the recent film 'The Great Gadsby', check out the level of wine in the glasses before anyone drinks.  In 'Terminator 3' - what was the number on that Cessna again? In Spiderman - did that bedroom lamp break or not? And in 'Pirates of the Caribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl' - when Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) tells his crew, "on deck you scabrous dogs" on the left is a dude with a cowboy hat, white T, and sunglasses.

So, all you have to do is watch a film about a thousand times because most have what rewatchers call "screw-ups ".  Can't find any in your favorite film, try watching it again.

Answers To Vampire Quiz

1. Brad Pitt                  
2. Santa Clara              
3. Lance Henriksen      
4. Martin                       
5. Let Me In 
6. All were movies
7. Kristy Swanson
8. Francis Ford Coppola
9. Bella Swan
10. Peter Cushing              
Photo: Kiefer Sutherland in 'Lost Boys' (great makeup)

Screen X - The Next Technology in Cinema Viewing

Last week saw the launch of Screen X, a cinema technology that promises to offer audiences an immersive experience like no other.  CGV, a South Korean company, has developed a technology that projects images onto the side walls of a cinema, providing  270 degrees of viewing.  CGV which owns and operates about 1000 cinema screens  in S. Korea, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the U.S. (a theatre in Los Angeles) produced a film in Screen X which was exhibited at the Busan International Film Festival (the best film festival in Asia) to rave reviews. See photo with side wall images.

Paul Kim, Producer of Screen X, says, "There is a technical way to describe it, we call it a 'Projection Mapping Field'.  Screen X basically projects images along the sidewalls of the theatre that go in sync with the front main screen, so that the audience is immersed in 270 degrees of content.  This is all done in 2D so 3D glasses are not required."

Screen X is in its earliest stage of development but it appears to work.  Kim says that on-screen advertising "works great with the technology" and CGV has ads for Red Bull, Samsonite, Renault, and Hyundai in the works using Screen X.  Says Kim, "As a company, we are always trying to develop what we call the 3 S's - Seats, Sound and Screen.  Screen X fits into this philosophy.  The development will be a long process but once perfected we will make it available to other exhibitors."

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Jim Lavorato