Cinema
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 4 episodes
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5 statements about Cinema, every show
Biyani: Consumer businesses are not binary day-one outcomes like cinema
“And consumer business is not like cinema, where first day, first show, you are gone... There is a whole chance to improve ourselves. The consumer will tell you something. We will change ourselves.”
Rahman: Applying traditional cinematic techniques to virtual reality induces viewer nausea
“I think what happened was for making VR movies, you need to unlearn many things for content. So film people come and use their techniques to do virtual reality. It makes people throw up.”
Rahman: Virtual reality will coexist as a personal medium alongside communal cinema
“It shouldn't be a replacement for cinema, but an alternate coexisting, right? So what you don't get in cinema, you'll get on this one. In cinema, you get the kind of community feel, like, you all whistle on the same thing. You all, all, all stack. I look at th…”
Matthew Dicks: Opening scenes in almost all movies predict their endings
“All of the openings of movies are almost all of them will predict the end of the movie for sure.”
Milk: VR is a distinct medium whose solitary nature resembles reading
“It is a completely different medium, and it's going to have its own set of rules, its own set of pluses and minuses, and people don't talk about books not being, you know, a worthwhile, valid medium because you can't sit in a room with a hundred other people a…”