Do you know how to make the big difference between small and big screen? Prove it with our quiz around the series adapted to the cinema, on the occasion of the release of “Downton Abbey”.
Serial cinema… and vice versa! The trend is not new, but many titles continue to move from the small to the big screen, such as the recent Kaamelott and Downton Abbey II. And it can just as well be sequels, like the films mentioned a few moments ago, as remakes, like the Mission: Impossible worn by Tom Cruise, which quickly moved away from their television model.
Animated, comic, detective, fantastic… There are countless series that have made the leap to the screen of the same size. With more or less success. Because the successes of Downton Abbey, Kaamelott or Mission: Impossible cannot completely mask the failures or disappointments that were The Saint or Speed Racer by Wachowski, certainly rehabilitated today after being poorly received in theaters.
As Downton Abbey II: A New Era plunges us back into the past alongside the Crawley family, find out if you know anything about film series.
And the two subjects come together all the more since it is a question of filming in Downton Abbey II, when a team poses its cameras in the famous residence of the heroes, while the talking takes more and more ‘importance. A revolution that the producer’s grandfather Gareth Neame experienced alongside Alfred Hitchcock, when he was an operator on Blackmail, which became the director’s first talking opus after a few changes.
“I remember what my grandfather used to tell me about the arrival of the sound engineers and the fact that the cameras were suddenly limited in their movements because they were extremely noisy”says Gareth Neame in the press kit. “The cameras had to be enclosed in soundproof boxes so that the microphones could not pick up the noise of the cameras, which consequently limited the movements of the device. The sound engineers then became the most important people on the set. “
Downton Abbey II thus has a big point in common with Singing in the Rain and The Artist which, although not taken from a television series, also document this key stage in the History of Cinema.