Hi Carlos -
Thanks for your interesting post and comments.
Best production and costume design in Hollywood has nothing to do with
historical accuracy. It is simply a creative award for that which does the
best job for evoking the time period the script and the director seek to
evoke and affecting the emotions they wish to evoke... historical accuracy
has nothing to do with it because the vast majority of the audience would
not know if the propping and costuming was accurate or not.
In other words, the appearance of authenticity for the average movie goer
is really what counts, and they would have no way of knowing and no
interest in knowing if the portrayal is truly accurate or other-wise.
Eric Goldstein
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:01 PM, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Eric:
"The great Gatsby" won the 2014 Oscars for " Best Achievement in
Costume Design" and "Achievement in Production Design"; (both awards are
linked to the costumes in the film) thanks in part to fashion historian
Deirdre Clemente. She was a consultant on the movie's costumes. It means it
was significant for the film to respect the fashion at the '20s and this
respect about that time was one of the main reasons to get the awards.
I agree with you that if the film portrays the '20s, it is not important
if a car is from 1929 or a music from 1926 or even a camera from 1950
keeping in mind a similar Rolleiflex TLR was introduced in 1929, despite
the film is set in 1922, however, as Richard wrote, too much anachronism
will spoil the illusion, at least in part. They invested a lot of money to
produce the film, I think these little details could be avoided easily.
Carlos
2015-06-01 16:35 GMT-03:00 Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>:
Non-documentary producers and directors are grateful that the members
of this group and discussion are so very very very atypical of average
movie goers, to be noticing, considering and discussing this minuncia
Eric Goldstein
