Robert Zemeckis’ Here has finally been released, but the film is a reminder of a harsh reality 39 years later Back to the future. Although Robert Zemeckis has directed all kinds of beloved films, such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forest Gumpand Castaway, Back to the future is undoubtedly the director’s most popular and influential work. The fingerprints of Back to the future can still be seen 39 years after the film’s release in 1985, with a Here returning to Robert Zemeckis’ iconic time travel film.
2024 Here is the newest film from director Robert Zemeckis, with the film acting as a Forest Gump reunion due to Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Robert Zemeckis working together again. Here is built on some interesting tricks, with the film focusing on a singular house that is displayed over the decades. Here uses only one camera angle throughoutproviding a truly unique viewing experience. However, Robert Zemeckis’ Here was criticized by both critics and the public, although very few have pointed out the tragic parallel that Here have with Back to the future.
Here uses aging technology instead of practical aging effects like back to the future
Different approaches to the same goal
Since Here focuses on the same characters over several decades, the film uses a lot of digital de-aging technology on its actors. Tom Hanks and Robin Wright’s characters are seen as high school students and continue to appear into old age, with the film having to show their appearance after the changes that have occurred over the better half of a century. Here attempts to make Hanks and Wright appear younger than they actually are for the vast majority of the film, with only a few scenes in which de-aging technology is used to make the actors appear older.
This is not the first time that Robert Zemeckis tried to change the actors’ ageswith this happening most famously in Back to the future. However, in the 1985 classic and its two sequels, the actors are covered in practical aging effects. The effects used to make actors such as Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson appear older are some of the most acclaimed parts of the film, with Back to the futureHer makeup was innovative in the 1980s and 1990s.
Back to the Future Aging Effects Are Superior to Rejuvenation Technology
Even though I’m 39 years older
Despite Here having almost four decades to improve Back to the futurethe aging effects in Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 film are still much better. Here and Back to the future approach the effects of aging in very different ways, with Here using its aging technology to make the actors look younger for most of the film, while Back to the future uses his makeup to make the actors look older. Back to the futureThe approach of is far superior in that, although it is used sparingly, it is much more convincing than those seen in Here.
HereThe de-aging technology just makes all the actors look like they have plastic skin, and since the audience already knows what these actors looked like when they were young, it looks really weird. Furthermore, the effects of aging do nothing to mask the fact that the actors move as if they were older people. Back to the future I didn’t have this problem. The public didn’t know what these actors would be like when they got olderand young people can always pretend to move as if they were older. These and other factors made the makeup one of the most praised parts of the trilogy.
Here’s to trust in rejuvenation technology that is the exact opposite of the back-to-the-future approach
Don’t use it in moderation here
The greatest disparity in approaches to aging between Here and Back to the future it’s how often they used them. In Back to the futuremakeup effects are used sparingly. The actors are barely made up for old age during the 1985 scenes that make up the beginning and end of Back to the future. Most of the film takes place in 1955, which means all the actors look natural.
Herehowever, it has Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and the other actors in their elderly or de-aged states for the vast majority of the film. There are very few scenes where actors can be themselvesmaking the entire film feel artificial. This makes it incredibly difficult to engage with the human aspect of Heresomething that Back to the future there was no need to worry.