I have never been a massive fan of comic books partly because I was never really introduced to them growing up and therefore don't have a passion for them. However, Warren Beaty's production of 'Dick Tracy' was inspiring and may perhaps even encourage me to read more comic-style books. I felt that the Tracy stories weren't based on the plot as Tracy always was seen to win throughout the film and in fact, was about the interaction between people.
One of the things I love about the film is how we feel we are entering Tracy's
universe. For example, the movie's opening shot establishes his world. The camera begins on a window, and pulls back, and moves up until we see the skyline of the city, and then flies through the air turning as it moves so that we get a sense of the vast landscape. As an audience, we begin to realise this is a city like no other and instead is more than a place and is instead a metropolis of millions of lives and secrets. The camera then enters into a building revealing how the city backdrop was in fact created in a studio.
As an aspiring designer, I loved seeing the use of matte paintings and optical effects to construct the set- something the real world could never imagine; and for that reason I would recommend this film to people of all ages especially those who are also creative minded as Dick Tracy portrays a designed world to be admired by all.
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