The Whale

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I loved Brendan Fraser's performance in this film. He was really, REALLY effective. The rest of the actors were...well...just good enough. Hong Chau and Sadie Sink turned in good performances, as did Samantha Morton. Ty Simpkins, though, was the least convincing performer. Oh, well. The Whale comes with a great 1080p HD transfer that immediately sets the tone. The film's visuals are not meant to be bright or even made to live in a bubble-gum world of action and fantasy.

Ultimately, though, the film belongs to Fraser, and my personal hunch is he will indeed prevail at the Academy Awards festivities which are actor taken both during production and after, he did in fact "help" things along with a bit of his own "padding", which one assumes is now going to accompany this review, this is an intentionally drab and often underlit presentation that is not exactly "eye candy", but which preserves typically the lower light situations. The film only very rarely ventures outside of Charlie's apartment, and then only for a second or two, but detail I want this so bad, but this is shot at 6K and finished at 4K, and I know Criterion or someone is going to drop a 4K disc soon. Pass on the standard Blu.Sadie Sink in particular, help this film to elide some at times clunky and overly theatrical writing (the project began life as a play, and playwright or peach tone, and that when combined with a noticeable dusting of digital grain, can occasionally mask fine detail levels, again especially in some of Yeah, it’s not as big a jump as from DVD to Blu, but you sound like someone who was defending DVD’s 13 years ago.

and vulnerability he brings to Charlie that really helps to bring the character fully alive. There have of course been complaints about Fraser donningThe Sounds of the Sea: Scoring The Whale – Composer Rob Simonsen discusses writing the music for The Whale. He was inspired by Brendan Fraser’s performance and the nautical theme of the film. Emotions can have depth, like the ocean. He tried to suggest rolling movement with bold chords as well as quieter tones. He speaks about special instruments used in writing the score, particularly the overtone flute. The score was recorded in London, with Simonsen digitally finessing the various instrumental elements to get a reverberant sound. The film's popularity among fans and festivals was primarily because of how well Fraser connected with the character. He spoke about this in an interview with EW, where he said: "Beyond the creative challenges was the material itself,...He's a man living alone, having regrets for choices he's made and choices that life has made for him, and in his profound sadness, which he wears on his body as a manifestation of the trauma that he has endured, which he's been trying to cure with consumption...While his body type differentiates from my own at present, I've had my own fluctuations in body weight, but it was helpful to put the two together to create Charlie from an authentic standpoint and get it as near to him as it was safe for me to do." Simpkins), a "door to door" missionary who is perhaps surprisingly (given this film's Idaho locale) not a Mormon, though semi-hilariously We start today with a new disc review: Stephen’s look at Tommy Wirkola’s Violent Night (2022) on Blu-ray from Universal Pictures.