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Dazzling effects and visuals

posted 10 years ago by rudeboy_murray
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This is a truly eye -popping film. The colours and sets are stunning - there is so much to dazzle the eye in every frame. So many visual highlights but the sultan's 'toy' collection is a personal favourite sequence. While today we are accustomed to getting worked up about the latest great achievement in CGI technology, one can only imagine how this film must have appeared to audiences back in 1940, with colour movies still a relative rarity. Those visuals must have leapt out of the screen. This is a magical movie.

[–] richard-III 8 years ago

Indeed! I love this film, it is all magic. Eastern as well as movie magic.

-I don't discriminate between entertainment
and arthouse. A film is a goddam film.-

[–] rudeboymurray (3271) 5 years ago

Always nice when I come across my own posts from the old IMDb days... does this happen to anyone else?

Everything I said above still stands by the way - I must have watched this film three or four more times since I posted this...

[–] [deleted] 5 years ago

What do you think of the 1961 version with Steve Reeves?

[–] rudeboymurray (3271) 5 years ago

I haven’t seen it... is it worth a watch?

I have seen the 1924 Douglas Fairbanks version, which is terrific.

[–] jdforyou1983 (1470) 4 years ago

It's a great looking film