The Little Prince - Japanese post

Recently a Japanese poster for "The Little Prince" was released.  Check it out below!

"The Last Boy Scout"

After being on a 90s action movie fix since the Christmas holidays, and re-watching the "Die Hard" movies, I remembered another lesser known Bruce Willis, and in my opinion, classic action 90s movie not may people have seen. That being director Tony Scott's 1991 Action Crime Comedy "The Last Boy Scout" starring Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans.

 Definitely comic book film noir influenced

I personally like to think of this movie as "Die Hard 2.5", fitting somewhere unofficially between the 2nd and 3rd movies. And although I agree with my friend Sam's assessment that this movie is pretty much "Sin City", all they needed to do was call Bruce Willis' character 'John' instead of "Joe' and left it ambiguously at that. Maybe this was done intentionally.

I would never have thought to put the camera behind Damon Wayan's character lying on the floor of the bathroom like this

It's pure early 90s action, violent and visceral, the bad guys were really bad and the good guys were flawed and broken, on the cusp of being washed up. And with amazing dialogue banter from writer/director Shane Black, known for writing fairly popular movies like "Lethal Weapon" and "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", oh and he directed a little movie called "Iron Man 3" as well.

Classic scene, dialogue and a build up of tense interaction

What stuck out for me the most was the cinematography and lighting. Bordering on the "film noir" in parts, it's dark and moody, some scenes playing out with the actor's faces obscured in darkness or behind smoke. Great use of dutch tilt interesting camera angles and camera locations, and all the usual 'rule of thirds' fancy stuff also included. It conjures up memories of watching classic movies where whole scenes would play out with little to no lighting. An age of movie making that things weren't (usually) fixed later in post.

My favourite is this shot, Damon Wayan's character's face is completely obscured yet the frame is filled with so much stylish visual information

So this blog post is out of appreciation for Director of Photography Ward Russell's cinematography in this underrated classic action movie. Go watch it if you haven't.

"The Little Prince" Article

"The Independent" have released an article about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's "The Little Prince" and subsequently the animated feature coming out in 2015.

Follow the link below:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/the-little-prince-the-new-film-of-the-boy-who-fell-to-earth-9949079.html

"The Little Prince" International Trailer #2

A second international trailer for "The Little Prince" has been released. With Japanese subtitles this trailer shows a bit more and introduces the voice and look of the mother character voiced by Rachel McAdams.

The renders are looking amazing, I'm so excited to see how this all came together in the end.

"The Little Prince" English Trailer

"The Little Prince" English trailer has been released on YouTube! Working on this in Montreal we worked with the English speaking dialogue using the amazing vocal talents of Jeff Bridges and Mackenzie Foy (just to name a few).




Can't wait to post more stuff about this movie!

"The Little Prince" International Trailer

 

The International trailer for "The Little Prince" directed by Mark Osbourne has finally been released! Unfortunately for English speakers, it's in french but I'm assuming a English trailer will be released soon.

It's great to finally start to see trailers and promotional materials be released to the public, this movie was amazing to work on and hopefully it will be received well around the world.

Vancouver 2.0

  

(I spent a lot of time making this)

Back to the beautiful west coast city of Vancouver. After a year stint out 'east' in Montreal, my time at Mikros and on "The Little Prince" finished up and I have fortunately returned to Sony Pictures Imageworks to work on the "Angry Birds" movie directed by Clay Kaytis and Fergal Reilly set to be released in 2016.

I had a great time in Montreal (even though half the year was covered in snow), and "The Little Prince" was amazing to work on.

Can't wait to post more "The Little Prince" and "Angry Birds" movie related posts on here!