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But first, the location that's daunted not only filmmakers, Mount Everest. More than 90 years have passed since George Mallory's attempt on the peak recorded in a hand-tinted documentary, The Epic of Everest that conveys the terrifying beauty of the mountain. Since then, there have been factual accounts of various ascents and an IMAX documentary. But now, there's a film called simply Everest in 3D and IMAX that seeks to put over both atmosphere and action, specifically, the events that resulted in the deaths of five climbers in 1996. That was the period when the number of mountaineers was increasing, people fit and all rich enough to join guided parties led by experienced mountaineers. So the film is in part memorial, but it also aims to provide with the cinematography in the sound design as immersive an experience as you can get at cinema seat level. I spoke to one of the film's producers, the filmmaker and experienced climber David Breashears, who was on Everest during that storm in 1996 when he was making an IMAX documentary.
You know, we went to make a film about four characters climbing the mountain. And up until the storm, we were going to have a film about climbing Everest in fairly reasonable weather as most people do, mostly blue skies, little wind because we waited for the jet stream winds to leave the mountain. And we could've continued climbing in 1996, if we only wanted to climb to the summit. So we came down because we had a 40-pound, 20kg IMAX camera with us and we needed better conditions because we didn't like the wind, we didn't know storm was coming. | 
发表于 2016-9-22 21:48:37