Tom P.
Well-Known Member
Nicholas Meyer, the director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, among many other projects, is fond of saying "art thrives on restrictions." When you lack the technology or the budget, you are forced to get more creative.
I'm not one who hates anything new or thinks all new technology in attractions is bad. I'm glad Disney has Flights of Passage and Rise of the Resistance and so on. And I hope they continue innovating.
But there is an almost elegant simplicity to shows and attractions from "the good ole days" and a definite sense that the imagineers were being as creative and resourceful as possible with what they had.
Much like how I tend to think James Cameron's work lost a lot of its creative spark when he started having nearly unlimited budgets -- I find The Terminator or Aliens to be far more entertaining than Titanic or Avatar -- I tend to think that sometimes today's Disney imagineers can rely too much on the impressiveness of modern technology at the expense of other elements.
My bottom line: there is room for both the old and the new. And I hope Disney continues to utilize both.
I'm not one who hates anything new or thinks all new technology in attractions is bad. I'm glad Disney has Flights of Passage and Rise of the Resistance and so on. And I hope they continue innovating.
But there is an almost elegant simplicity to shows and attractions from "the good ole days" and a definite sense that the imagineers were being as creative and resourceful as possible with what they had.
Much like how I tend to think James Cameron's work lost a lot of its creative spark when he started having nearly unlimited budgets -- I find The Terminator or Aliens to be far more entertaining than Titanic or Avatar -- I tend to think that sometimes today's Disney imagineers can rely too much on the impressiveness of modern technology at the expense of other elements.
My bottom line: there is room for both the old and the new. And I hope Disney continues to utilize both.
