Madonna's inspiration for Avatar

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Jon Landau revealed the surprising way Madonna inspired the film's cinematography. Landau, who shares producing credit with Cameron, says they were inspired specifically by the pop star's microphone placement during her concerts which gave them the idea to keep the camera close to actors while filming action scenes.

[Roy 7,611]

1 hour ago, PlasticLimbo said:

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Jon Landau revealed the surprising way Madonna inspired the film's cinematography. Landau, who shares producing credit with Cameron, says they were inspired specifically by the pop star's microphone placement during her concerts which gave them the idea to keep the camera close to actors while filming action scenes.

I did not know this but damn. 

It's like when the headset microphone was invented, they called it the "Madonna mic" because she used it so much for the Blond Ambition Tour.

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[Régine Filange 2,582]

2 hours ago, A. A. Aardvark said:

 

no one said she invented the microphone, she popularized. as mj didn't invent moonwalking, he took it and popularized it.

[schumakg86 619]

What’s funny is her mic is usually always off when she’s got it on 🤣

[Ziploc 2,566]

2 hours ago, Régine Filange said:

no one said she invented the microphone, she popularized. as mj didn't invent moonwalking, he took it and popularized it.

Plus the Bush Mic doesn't have quite the same ring to it 😂

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2 hours ago, MatterCompressor said:

Plus the Bush Mic doesn't have quite the same ring to it 😂

Whatever Jon Landau said is not in dispute.
It just isn't true.
 

[Tiago Lisboa Rodrigues 1,230]

14 hours ago, A. A. Aardvark said:

 

Doesn't take away that not only Madonna made it popular and it was Madonna that the production team watched using it, and that's what matters, lmao

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35 minutes ago, Tiago Lisboa Rodrigues said:

Doesn't take away that not only Madonna made it popular and it was Madonna that the production team watched using it, and that's what matters, lmao

if the roles were reversed, there would be payback on the forum, believe me

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This is actually pretty cool, considering facial motion capture is done with marker based now, it was very premature in the 2000's and did not capture every movement, I guess James Cameron thought of Madonna a lot especially during the mid 90's as Evita was huge just prior to Titanic and thought of the head mic to support performance capture and track facial movement frame by frame. tedious but as we all know, Avatar was revolutionary for its time.