Apparently there is a tendency in new Disney movies to put everything that is important in a scene to the middle of the screen, while filling the side with unimportant details. The reason for this is to make it easier to re-post content on vertical platform, meaning that Disney now makes it's movies with TikTok/Instagram in mind.

Yes, mainstream films are being bastardized to keep up with lowered attention spans. I hate it here

Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, George Miller... A lot of directors did this central framing thing way before tiktok was even a thing. It's just a technique that directors use sometimes. Not a big deal.

Yea. Movies are now doing a thing where they dumb the script because people are looking at their phones while watching the movie.

10 minutes ago, Venice B said:

Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, George Miller... A lot of directors did this central framing thing way before tiktok was even a thing. It's just a technique that directors use sometimes. Not a big deal.

Yeah, but Kubrick used it as a motif rather than a consistent rule to maintain attention spans (or for people watching on phones).

14 minutes ago, Venice B said:

Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, George Miller... A lot of directors did this central framing thing way before tiktok was even a thing. It's just a technique that directors use sometimes. Not a big deal.

I feel like they had artistic reasons for that, not to make it possible to watch the movie in 54 separate reels. But who knows for sure

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by Europe

what the **** is the animation style? it looks ai

bring back traditional style animation PLEASE

19 minutes ago, Venice B said:

Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, George Miller... A lot of directors did this central framing thing way before tiktok was even a thing. It's just a technique that directors use sometimes. Not a big deal.

Yes, this used to be done (often reluctantly on the director's part) to account for the later 4:3 pan & scan release and make the process of transfer to video easier. It's just the modern version for a new visual medium. Whether that's a positive or negative is another subject.

Not only people watch content on phones but they're also multi tasking while doing so. People just cannot sit through a whole movie at home without texting/checking socials at least once if you hide important details in the background they will likely miss them.

37 minutes ago, Vixen Eyes said:

what the **** is the animation style? it looks ai

bring back traditional style animation PLEASE

Have Disney movies not always looked like this

This is just an stylistic choice that has been done forever. Not a trend at all.

Aren't all widescreen movies like that? I mean if you look for it you will start seeing it everywhere.

1 hour ago, Katamari said:

Have Disney movies not always looked like this

if we're talking about the non-traditional style, not ones ive seen. go watch Monsters Inc. or Toy Story (the first one) or Finding Nemo, etc

A lot of directors opt to center action within each frame because it has the most impact on viewers. I watch a lot of horror movies every October, and most scenes have centered action/focus. The ability to easily post to vertical video apps is more of a convenience.

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by Archetype

I thought this was gonna be about how people in the 2010s kept using the word "centered". I hated that and it was corny. Center originally was only a verb having to do with physical space. It became so unwittingly political. I hated it and how its metaphorical roots became mistaken for something substantial. People didn't even realize it had happened

the constant 1-2 seconds cuts