When Rango the lizard finds himself stranded in the Mojave Desert, his green skin unable to camouflage him in the inhospitable brown landscape, he manages to pass himself off as a deadly gunslinger
January 19th, 2014
When Rango the lizard finds himself stranded in the Mojave Desert, his
green skin unable to camouflage him in the inhospitable brown landscape,
he manages to pass himself off as a deadly gunslinger. To the
desperate, drought-stricken town of Dirt, which is suffocating in the
grip of its corrupt mayor, the reptilian stranger soon begins to look
like a savior.
This is the first Academy Award nomination for Gore Verbinski.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
