I find myself thinking it is a pleasure to see a good period piece that convincingly looks like the period intended to be portrayed. But movie companies have lots of money to invest and can afford large created scenes.Towns can be built and computer generated backgrounds can be elaborate and convincing.Philo Sofee wrote: ↑Sat Oct 07, 2023 5:10 amI could easily air brush them out and it wouldn't cost him a fortune of any kind. Yes, I would want to get paid, but I could save him enough money from his own LDS folks ripping him off, he could have enough to make yet ANOTHER movie. He needs to contact me...
It is certainly possible to tolerate much less convincing scenes if one is enjoying the story. I think of television and how obviously scenes supposedly taking place in places like Dodge City Kansas are filmed just outside Los Angeles which does not look at all like Kansas.California scenery is accepted as a substitute for most anyplace.
In a film keeping close to some time period, American frontier out west, it can be jarring for a modern intrusion to appear. I am remembering a film keeping close to period involved a horse chase where a modern wheat field was seen between forest areas. Jarring but not enough to spoil the film. It is difficult to find a lot of scenes where the present is invisible.
I find the modernness of these images for this Brigham Young film jarring. It is not just the details but the image of neat overly clean everything. Clothing brand new, lawns large and modern, and interiors with a modern flavor to the walls and nicknacks.
Is this a desire to fit modern Mormon taste and expectations for appearance? After all some effort to be closer to period presentation might not be all that expensive. I think there are still, at least a few, neighborhood in Salt Lake which would look closer to the time period. (disappearing I realize)