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25 May 2007 (USA) morePlot:
The grail is not the gold, nor the books of ancient wisdom, but the 3,000 year old DNA of the mummies, which may lead to a cure for malaria. | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid
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(Credited cast)| Elana Drago | ... | Nefertari | |
| William Hope | ... | Charles Wilbour | |
| Nasser Memarzia | ... | Ahmed Abd El Rassoul | |
| Crispin Redman | ... | Emil Brugsch | |
| Daud Shah | ... | Mohammed Abd El Rassoul | |
| Boris Terral | ... | Rameses | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Bob Brier | ... | Himself | |
| Brahim Choukri | ... | Brugsch's Batman | |
| Angelique Corthals | ... | Herself | |
| Zahi Hawass | ... | Himself | |
| Mohammed Kacha | ... | Anubis Priest | |
| Abdellah Kloul | ... | Khaemwaset | |
| Erragragui Lakbir | ... | Scribe | |
| Christopher Lee | ... | Narrator | |
| Driss Ouabi | ... | European husband | |
| Laafou Ouadii | ... | Travelling Priest | |
| Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni | ... | Paser | |
| Nasser Ouji | ... | Heqa Nakht | |
| Patricia Remler | ... | European Lady | |
| Fdila Tabounout | ... | Omm Rassoul | |
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This was my first experience with IMAX, as well as with 3D. I'm a few years late, i know.
So, having the experience was the only reason why i went to see this. I was, and still am amazed at the possibilities of the medium. I couldn't know what to expect, though i thought about it several times. What fascinated me was not how "real" the experience is, but how "beyond real" it may become. Cinema lives on enhancing common sensations to degrees in which we react. In cinema, colours bust be highlighted, contrasts as well, well, even drama and narrative dynamics (like in theater). The 3D, associated with the super screen opens new windows to those possibilities, it's a technical possibility that creates a whole vast area of dark places for clever filmmakers to explore. How exciting is that? As a first experience, i recorded to aspects, which i think may be of great interest.
One is the power of a landscape, not because it is enlarged, not because it is "real", but because the right image, edited in the right sequence, can be of a higher impact. Imagine the explosions in Antonioni's Zabriskie Point, with all those points of view, enhanced to the point that they blow your head. I hope the market and film industry will turn to IMAX with enough strenght to make it usable for our "authors" to think specifically for it, to explore the depths of the medium, instead of the superficial effects i imagine have been used so far.
The other aspect is how this medium might revolutionize the relations between space and cinema. How we might rephrase the way we make a film become "spatial" through the way we move around space. I mean, even in a documentary with such mundane footage as this one i watched i felt the power of moving around. Of course here we have the depiction of Egyptian architecture, which lives on mystery, on moving around, and that is highly cinematic. And the film was also thought to produce certain effects associated to its format. But i kept thinking about the possibilities. What would the best filmmakers do with this? Can you imagine what would Orson Welles have done, if he ever had the possibility to shoot for IMAX? Or Hitchcock, or de Palma, who actually is around and still working, who knows.
The documentary in itself, is leveled after the History channel model, with off voices telling facts, footage of the remains of the old civilization, and stagings of old happenings. Mundane, except for the effects thought specially to work on the medium, which were new to me, but which i suspect will be vulgar, as soon as i repeat the experience enough times, with other films.
My opinion: 2/5 http://www.7eyes.wordpress.com