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- Toupee, on 10/11/2007, -13/+89Would this have made it to the front page if he used MSN's video chat?
- skillfull, on 10/11/2007, -5/+36i really liked the finale
- crazybrit, on 10/11/2007, -7/+37Leonbev, are you ***** kidding me? The Departed had one of the best endings ever.
- directedition, on 10/11/2007, -2/+30I liked the original finale better. A brilliant film, but the original is just incredible.
Is it just me, or are criminals genetically drawn to construction sites and abandoned buildings? - The_Larch, on 10/11/2007, -4/+28Well, with what you have to pay Nicholson, they had to make up the $ somewhere...
- directedition, on 10/11/2007, -5/+27I can tell you iChat pretty much owns the film industry. I interned at a large advertising firm's film department and iChat was easily the primary mode of communication. There were faxes and there were phone calls, but those were only used when iChat was somehow not an option.
- dvsbastard, on 10/11/2007, -9/+28Although I do agree with your statement... I don't care if they used homing pigeons / smoke signals / notes in bottles to communicate...
Honestly... what kind of person actually, truthfully and genuinely gives a monkeys peanut about this?
/confused rant - convergent, on 10/11/2007, -6/+25Now that we know that Scorsese used iChat, shall we party?
Seriously, who really cares what he used? - Makr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14I'm amused at half the comments in here that have nothing to do with the story but to flame the apple fanboys.
- lo0ol, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13I'll agree with you, but mostly just because my only exposure to the background of the entertainment industry is Ari and Lloyd's frantic iChat sessions with E on Entourage.
- HunterTV, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10No. Too many wires and blinking lights.
- dkoon, on 10/11/2007, -4/+12don't forget he also used the director's chair when he shot the movie.
- flickmaster, on 10/11/2007, -5/+13I completely agree. Every time someone manages to actually do something productive with an Apple product it makes the news. Honestly, who cares?
Important people use IM clients or video conferencing clients ALL THE FREAKIN TIME. In fact, important people use lots of computer software ALL THE FREAKIN TIME, and I don't need to hear about how Mr/Mrs Fancypants uses such and such to do WHAT THAT PARTICULAR PIECE OF SOFTWARE WAS DESIGNED TO DO.
If you generalize the tittle of this article you get "Martin Scorses used video conferencing software to video conference". That is how your article sounds to most people. If he used this video conferencing software in some unique way that only iChat could accomplish, due to some spectacular feature that only iChat contained, then maybe, just maybe the article would be worth creating. But, I digress, a video chat feature in a video chat program is not special, and there are plenty of other pieces of software that could have done it just as well if not better, so there is no excuse for this sorry topic that I ironically spent time replying to - diggSJaustin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I'm surprised some jerk didn't berate him for not using Adium.
- convergent, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7What, are you on your period?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10Actually, there's a ton of programs better suited to script writing than Word, which is actually pretty poor at it. So, probably not.
- Makr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8It's the fact that he wasn't on the same side of the country and was still able to be contact and effectively direct a shot without being there is what matters, noone cares that he used an apple product.
- phlogiston99, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Did he use a cell phone? That would be incredibly interesting if he had used a cell phone for anything in a movie, like order a pizza or something. Wow. Technology. This is fantastic.
- iFox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4You can't direct a movie using just text...
- otep, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6
.......I'll take a cranberry juice. - greatblackowl, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5What, the ending or the article? The ending was awesome.
I saw it at school in the theatre in the student union. The theatre was packed, and when the first shot happened, half of the audience screamed. Then they screamed again, and later at the very end. It was a great ending, one which brought a smile to my face. - praxisseizure, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Ichat has been very useful on the sets I've worked on. Specially when you're short on radios, and important info needs to be disseminated. Invaluable service, really. Being the on-set editor, all I had was Ichat to communicate with the production managers and producer when the director needed me for appraisal. If not for that (on occasion, usually there were ample radios) a PA would've had to run out to me and tap my shoulder. On-set WIFI networks really kick ass and speed up comms.
- praxisseizure, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3BTW as the editor, I refuse to be in line of sight of the set and production. Jades my work.
- crazybrit, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3If you think the Depated sucked then you just plain have bad taste in movies.
- mattprice, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2@gargantuan (#7203233)
Exactly. I would have never dreamed about using an IM program to direct a movie. The emphasis on iChat is because it's a Mac fan site. - gargantuan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Well considering that story is on a MAC interest site, that would explain the focus on iChat. But this story is interesting in that it illustrates how versatile software manages to change things in unexpected ways. He didn't use iChat to chat with someone, he used it for something it wasn't intended to do, although I know for a fact that Apple people have been using iChat to do similar things (art directing and what not) for sometime. That's probably where the idea for iChat theater was born.
- r3zonance, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@diversionmary
So basically that application is a unix terminal window running vi/emacs-like editor. - diversionmary, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1JDarkroom!
http://www.codealchemists.com/jdarkroom/ - diversionmary, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Give it a shot, it's different than a text editor. It's more like a freeform blank slate to dump ideas onto, and quickly clear/save them.
- zoharma, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1This is just silly. I don't get the point of this digg.
I was a proud mac user, but appleism is getting out of control. Now I'm just a mac user. Stop horraying for every nonsense. - r3zonance, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah but it wouldn't be interesting at all as it has been done too many times before, and every (even crap films/directors) have done it.
Where as an IM client used for directing, probably hasn't really been done on high-budget films. This was unique more because of the deadlines involved. Other films would most likely have had dedicated ISDN lines or something, but that wouldn't be an option in this case because of the time constraints. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3he used an instant messaging program? big deal.
oh but it was an apple program! - avatarpalin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@ dkoon What directors chair?? The movie was great so the chair must be as well!!
What coffee did he drink? - ShogunWarPig, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Do people just digg down the people at the bottom for the hell of it?
- effedup, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Finally.. now I have a reason to buy a mac.
- r3zonance, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3"If you generalize the tittle of this article you get "Martin Scorses used video conferencing software to video conference". That is how your article sounds to most people."
Yeah, but he didn't use video conferencing software to video conference. He used video conferencing software SPECIFICALLY to accomplish the task of directing a movie scene, and he just so happened to use iChat. - cywei99, on 02/05/2008, -1/+1I really love the show The Departed. I heard that it is a remake from a Hong Kong movie, the internal affairs.
http://www.mindpowerspecialreport.com/
http://www.myselfhypnosis.net/ - clickmyface, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1He also killed President Bartlet.
Martin Scorsese and I are no longer on speaking terms.
Had we ever spoken before in the first place, of course. - gargantuan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1bury
- b612, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1the ending was cliché how can you say it was awesome. A rat... come on get real, the only reason he won an oscar was that everyone felt bad for him.
It was one of those movies where everyone ignored the gapping problems because there was so much action and it had a respected director.
People like movies and endings like that because they think they are supposed to like them, the rat appeals to the lowest common denominator. - Makr, on 10/11/2007, -8/+7It's interesting because this for the most part hasn't been done before by a big name director and then reported. Sure, similar things have been done, but nothing in realtime like this. The article just uses iChat and macs because that was what was used. It's not fanboyism, it's a new technique in filmmaking.
- l0rdn1k0n, on 10/11/2007, -7/+5I'm a Mac user and even I think this is stupid. There are plenty of films that cut corners sometimes. Seriously, just because Apple made it doesn't make it news. Even to me, this is a little fanboyish.
- grendel, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2...and I used the remote today...amazing piece of technology...it lets you change channels and stuffs
fan boys... you'll pretend you don't like crysis when it debuts. - uberkling, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Haven't seen this movie so I can't count on its suck-factor.
That said I read a tagline of an article like this and it's just one of those things that brings a quick smile and a thought of "hey, cool!" :-P
Good use of consumer tech right there. - Uranium118, on 10/11/2007, -10/+8So what, he probably used Microsoft Word to type the damn script? Should I post that too?
Why does every damn info related to Apple come to the front age when the new is so useless - johngardiner, on 10/11/2007, -13/+11in other news the last shot of the new fantastic four film was directed using the telegraph system
- myfanwy, on 10/11/2007, -11/+8what the *****? who cares? jesus, lame ***** mac fanboys
- TheSack, on 10/11/2007, -10/+7@ attention
Have you ever used iChat? I think you are confusing it with MSN. - r3zonance, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Generalising leads to loss of clarity/detail. If the title "Martin Scorses used video conferencing software to video conference" was used, then the whole point of the article would be lost.
A headline is used to get across key facts with the least letters.
With that in mind the key facts are "iChat" (which also happens to be shorter and less generic than 'video conferencing software') and "direct The Departed" (okay it was only one scene, but it is certainly more specific and accurate than "video conference").
Get over it, they didn't use MSN messenger cos they'd have had to download and install their camera drivers first, then all ensure they were running the exact same version of one of the many video enabled Messenger clients. Then they'd have to deal with the all the other problems that Windows and MSN Messenger throw at them.
With iChat it's just as simple as plug in camera, open iChat, make video call to Mr Scorsese. Maybe a tweak to firewalls, but that would be needed for MSN too. - The_Dude, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1Agreed. It did suck.
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