Thanks for this video/analysis! I enjoyed it and learned from hearing your perspective. Just one quibble - the animation wasn't done through rotoscoping. It was a long process of redrawing the scenes from scratch, which I think adds another important dimension of distancing/intimacy to the artful portrayal of trauma in WwB. from wikipedia: The animation, with its dark hues representing the overall feel of the film, uses a unique style invented by Yoni Goodman at the Bridgit Folman Film Gang studio in Israel. The technique is often confused with rotoscoping, an animation style that uses drawings over live footage, but is actually a combination of Adobe Flash cutouts and classic animation.[8] Each drawing was sliced into hundreds of pieces which were moved in relation to one another, thus creating the illusion of movement. The film was first shot in a sound studio as a 90-minute video and then transferred to a storyboard. From there 2,300 original illustrations were drawn based on the storyboard, which together formed the actual film scenes using Flash animation, classic animation, and 3D technologies.[9]
I served as a tank commander during the 2009 Gaza War aka operation cast lead. They (the regiment) showed us this film when we returned to our home base at the Golan heights. Just showed us in the conference room, no discussion, no anything. That was our debriefing from the war. As if they just drew the parallel for us. When I finally got my PTSD diagnosis in 2021 I rewatched it, showed it to my wife. I can't remember the name of the film without crying. The animation is just so surreally REAL that I have my own version of Waltz, with my own memories, running on repeat in my head all day long. Goddamn
I saw this movie in the theater and I'll never forget the stunned silence of the auditorium afterward. We were, every one of us, traumatized by the experience. An experience we owe to the victims of Lebanon in general, and Sabra and Shatila in paticular.
I write an 8 page paper on waltz with bashir for my Israeli film class. That was 11 years ago. I loved that class thanks for the reminder of how good it was
This film really depicts how really war is. In my case, I felted more sick, shock and sad because of one part of my family comes from the surrounds of Beirut. With this movie had begun a moment of my life where I felt guilt of what I am. Now days I don't feel that sickness of myself, but every time I see this movie the sickness comes back.
I actually read in Ananelle Honess Roe's book "Animated documentary" (2013) that the technique Folman uses is digital cut out animation and not rotoscope. But I agree! What a movie... It almost doesn't feel like one
I watched this film in the cinema when it was first released. It's an amazing film and one of my all time favourites (despite seeing it only once). The film is told with humour and its highly engaging. But when the final scene dropped, the audience was shocked into silence. Unforgettable cinematic moment
The real picture of massacre must be strong for your age. I also watched when i was young i actually love study and searching for war and conflicts history i actually is war obsessed with israel Arab conflicts and Israel arab war and ended up obsessed with Lebanese civil 1975 and Israel invasion of to Lebanon 1982 that end in horrible and honorific massacre Sabra and shatilla and after that i know by accedint their is movie about Israel invasion and Sabra and shatilla. Well the massacre give me nightmare and i was afraid for years because when I know what humanity can do to each other. Sometimes their is something you should not know or study or search about so you don't know ugly history . Ignorant is bliss Thier is something should stay uncovered
Thanks for this video/analysis! I enjoyed it and learned from hearing your perspective. Just one quibble - the animation wasn't done through rotoscoping. It was a long process of redrawing the scenes from scratch, which I think adds another important dimension of distancing/intimacy to the artful portrayal of trauma in WwB.
from wikipedia:
The animation, with its dark hues representing the overall feel of the film, uses a unique style invented by Yoni Goodman at the Bridgit Folman Film Gang studio in Israel. The technique is often confused with rotoscoping, an animation style that uses drawings over live footage, but is actually a combination of Adobe Flash cutouts and classic animation.[8] Each drawing was sliced into hundreds of pieces which were moved in relation to one another, thus creating the illusion of movement. The film was first shot in a sound studio as a 90-minute video and then transferred to a storyboard. From there 2,300 original illustrations were drawn based on the storyboard, which together formed the actual film scenes using Flash animation, classic animation, and 3D technologies.[9]
I served as a tank commander during the 2009 Gaza War aka operation cast lead. They (the regiment) showed us this film when we returned to our home base at the Golan heights. Just showed us in the conference room, no discussion, no anything. That was our debriefing from the war. As if they just drew the parallel for us.
When I finally got my PTSD diagnosis in 2021 I rewatched it, showed it to my wife. I can't remember the name of the film without crying. The animation is just so surreally REAL that I have my own version of Waltz, with my own memories, running on repeat in my head all day long.
Goddamn
what kind of Merkava are you in?
You cry out in pain after you strike, disgusting
I saw this movie in the theater and I'll never forget the stunned silence of the auditorium afterward. We were, every one of us, traumatized by the experience. An experience we owe to the victims of Lebanon in general, and Sabra and Shatila in paticular.
I write an 8 page paper on waltz with bashir for my Israeli film class. That was 11 years ago. I loved that class thanks for the reminder of how good it was
This film really depicts how really war is.
In my case, I felted more sick, shock and sad because of one part of my family comes from the surrounds of Beirut. With this movie had begun a moment of my life where I felt guilt of what I am.
Now days I don't feel that sickness of myself, but every time I see this movie the sickness comes back.
Masterpiece! And ari Folman thanks Steven Gerrard at the end of the film I don't know why but... I love that 😂
I actually read in Ananelle Honess Roe's book "Animated documentary" (2013) that the technique Folman uses is digital cut out animation and not rotoscope. But I agree! What a movie... It almost doesn't feel like one
this film is beautiful
Great writing never has, a Situation, with a man in it. Great writing has A Man whose is in a situation. This film did just that.
Jus finished watching it, I think the "unreality" of war is a great way to capture the documentary's atmosphere
This film should get way more attention than it does.
It really should.
I watched this film in the cinema when it was first released. It's an amazing film and one of my all time favourites (despite seeing it only once). The film is told with humour and its highly engaging. But when the final scene dropped, the audience was shocked into silence. Unforgettable cinematic moment
Really good video
Waltz is not rotoscoped, scrub.
saw this in my early teens.
The real picture of massacre must be strong for your age. I also watched when i was young i actually love study and searching for war and conflicts history i actually is war obsessed with israel Arab conflicts and Israel arab war and ended up obsessed with Lebanese civil 1975 and Israel invasion of to Lebanon 1982 that end in horrible and honorific massacre Sabra and shatilla and after that i know by accedint their is movie about Israel invasion and Sabra and shatilla. Well the massacre give me nightmare and i was afraid for years because when I know what humanity can do to each other. Sometimes their is something you should not know or study or search about so you don't know ugly history . Ignorant is bliss Thier is something should stay uncovered
2:15 create what? distance?
1st