This is gonna be the ONE time you're gonna hear me defend m night shyamalan's atla movie. The ONE time. But the costumes for his movie were fucking good. Yes the cast was horrible, yes the script was cringe, yes the bending was goofy. But the costume design was FIRE and i'm tired of pretending it wasn't. There's obviously some tweeks i would have made: mainly Katara and Sokka's hair, but the costumes looked like they belonged in the atla universe. It worked. And they look a lot better than the costumes we see in these current promo shots.
The only exception so far to me, is Dallas Liu's Zuko costume. At least his scar is actually visible to the naked eye lol.
Again like i said in my last post we'll just have to wait and see for an actual trailer to judge how these costumes work in action. But currently i feel like it looks too clean, too fake. I get that they wanted to go for accuracy but Gordon's Aang literally looks like he's wearing polyester cotton blend. They could have at least went with linen bc airbenders can warm themselves by controlling their breathing.
Idk maybe this is my pessimistic nature ruining the party lol. What do you guys think?
DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock DVD BluRay featurettes:
M. Night Shyamalan, director: You immediately are watching this husband and wife. It seems very innocuous. And she's reading the newspaper. It's a regular, normal moment in this couple's life and you're like 'Hmmm.'
And then she reads this piece of paper, the insert of the boat arriving and then immediately you're with another guy and she's kissing this other guy and she's all in red. and it's such a great kind of, you know, that normally would take us 20 minutes to set up. She has a marriage, She's pretending to have a happy life but really, she's in love with this other man. Immediately, there's a conflict and you go, 'Wow!'
Richard Franklin, director: Bearing in mind that Hitchcock had only done two pictures in color in prior to this and had done several black-and-white films in a row between Under Capricorn and this picture. His uses of color here is really quite striking.
He uses the color in an interesting way in terms of the costuming because you see her in white with her husband, but in red with her lover. And the contrast of those first two moments with the two men in her life are very strong.
M. Night Shyamalan got hit by a truck and died, and everyone said that “Knock at the Cabin” was our last chance to see if he was actually a good director or not.
The difference between the Shyamalan live-action and the Netflix live-action is straight up night-and-day. Shyamalan’s looked like some dude’s loose idea of what the world of ATLA looks like. Netflix’s actually looks like ATLA.
“Who do you think will continue this place, this life? Do you plan to live forever? It is in them that our future lies, it is in Ivy and Lucius that this way of life will continue. Yes I have risked, I hope I am always able to risk everything for the just and right cause. If we did not make this decision, we could never again call ourselves innocent, and that in the end is what we have protected here, innocence! That I’m not ready to give up.”
The Village (2004) dir. M. Night Shyamalan