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rrk@rahul.net (Bob R. Kenyon) writes:
>In article <3198BCCA.3E40@hitchcock.org>, John R Moore
><john.r.moore@hitchcock.org> wrote:
>
>>Haven't seen Twister, so I won't try to defend it, but please point
>>out the technology used by Spielburg in:
>>
>>Sugarland Express
>>Continental Divide
>>The Color Purple
>>Empire of the Sun   and
>>Schindler's List.
>
>Just because you don't see the special effects doesn't mean they aren't
>there. Most movies made today have some amount of SFX going on, if only to
                                                   ^^^
Looks like a typo.

>make a sky more beautiful or to take out rigging or mistakes. Many times
>it's cheaper to digitize a scene and have someone paint out a mistake
>instead of reshooting it.
>
>Schindler's List certainly was full of effects. I don't remember enough of
>or haven't seen the other films.

Several of the outdoor crowd scenes in Empire of the Sun were artificial.
They haven't actually hired anywhere near that many extras since, oh, The
Ten Commandments.

And in The Color Purple, Whoopi Goldberg's character is actually a
computer-generated cartoon. 

-rich