Verstorben in Folge eines Schlaganfalls nach einer längeren Krebserkrankung.
Eine Art "Leonardo da Vinci des Films":
https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/douglas-trumbull-spezialeffekte-visionaer-und-regisseur-ist-tot-als-ob-man-gott-fotografiert-a-2270f130-0400-4d31-a1a3-ac2618294f70https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.zum-tod-von-douglas-trumbull-der-mann-der-2001-moeglich-machte.9c1dd236-88d5-4289-9fcf-e2fff48c6bfa.htmlhttps://variety.com/2022/film/news/douglas-trumbull-dead-visual-effects-1235174814/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/feb/11/douglas-trumbull-obituaryhttps://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/interviews/douglas-trumbull-creating-sci-fi-classicshttps://musingsofamiddleagedgeek.blog/2022/02/08/an-architect-of-dreams-douglas-trumbull-1942-2022/https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Or1r1jb6Uhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JhbFrkCJ_nADouglas Trumbull in Zitaten:
"Special effects have gone all digital," he remarked during an interview withIndieWire last year. "As I watch a lot of these movies, my experience has been that I see mind-boggling things achieved by CGI, including flames and water, all kinds of spacecrafts and alien planets. The problem is that you give it about two years, look at it again, and think actually, this doesn't look as good as I thought. It doesn't age well. There's new stuff that gets better every year. I look back at the things I've done with miniatures and they've aged very beautifully. They still look as good today as they did then. They still look credible today even though they were made more than 50 years ago." (...)
"I always try to find an organic — or analog — solution instead of the knee-jerk reaction to use computer graphics," he told IGN last month. "The reason for this is: every time I try this, I get some delightful result that is, in some respects, unexpected. There are magical things that happen in nature — gravity, fluids, lighting — that one couldn't really design using computer graphics."
zit. aus:
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/05/2001-vfx-douglas-trumbull-cgi-kubrick-1234634471/#!"Kubrick did not create the visual effects. He directed them," said Trumbull. "There was a certain level of inappropriateness to taking that Oscar. But the tragic aspect of it for me is it's the only Oscar Stanley Kubrick ever won. He was an incredibly gifted director and should have gotten something for directing and writing and what his real strength was — not special effects."
zit. aus:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/04/stanley-kubrick-did-not-deserve-oscar-2001-special-effects-douglas-trumbullDer Regisseur über seinen Film "Silent Running":
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=43XZhzA4Ar4Zuletzt hatte er sich noch gegen die 2018 auf den Markt geworfenen "2001"-Versionen verwahrt: er verstehe nicht, dass man ihn nicht herangezogen hätte für die Restaurierung, denn er würde das Originalnegativ sehr gut kennen. Dabei sprach er berechtigterweise dem Regisseur Christopher Nolan das Beurteilungsvermögen für Bildqualitäten ab, übersah aber eventuell generelle, chemikalische Probleme der Entwicklungsprozesse moderner Kopierwerke, an denen auch Nolan und Warners Restaurierung-Chef Ned Price schlagartig nicht viel hätten ändern können:
"...I was kind of flabbergasted because I had a previous intimate relationship with Warner Bros. about 2001 because I was developing [a] documentary [about that film] for them. At the time, I said, 'I know where the original negative is of everything. I'm a guy who was on the set, working with Kubrick, and I'd love to contribute to any restoration you want to do.' Instead, they called Christopher Nolan and they did not call me. Go figure. It's all corporate. All about money."
Filmausschnitte:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NI4nwL_TSJEVisual Effects in "Blade Runner" (technisch fehlerhaftes, zu dunkles, aber dennnoch hochinformatives Video):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EByNb7F-A34Trumbull Studios mit Showscan-Kino und Kamerapark:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kwB_lFUVjxATrumbull über seine ästhetischen Visionen zu Robert Wise's "Star Trek - The Motion Picture":
https://youtu.be/HHjLsvEOeS0Über Begrifflichkeit von Plot und story:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/interviews/douglas-trumbull-creating-sci-fi-classics"Back to the Future - The Ride" (VFX beginnen ab 11:30):
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=feaC30j1D3sÜber 4 Jahrzehnte nach "2001" das alte Handwerk für "The Tree of Life" wiederbelebt:
https://youtu.be/qeaVwcypiSsTrumbull über "2001", "Back to the future - the ride" und HFR-Systeme:
https://www.facebook.com/640490466327322/posts/1329204170789278/https://youtu.be/47wO-Az22v0
