The Trailers for Ghostbusters (2016) and the Art of Editing Comedy
My overall point in comparing these two examples is to bring up something that we never acknowledge: the editor of a comedy is as responsible for the jokes as any actor in the scene.
Movies
Liber8 BB-8!
My on-the-fly take was that there was a conceptual problem: if we made machines smart enough to provide all our services, wouldn’t those machines effectively be people, deserving freedom from servitude?
How Pixar brought computers to the movies
What stands out for Catmull is that nearly all of the critics devoted only a sentence or two to its breakthrough computer animation. “The rest of the review was about the movie itself,” Catmull recalls. “I took immense pride in that.”
Abrams, Star Wars, Disney and Creative Control
In the middle of the interview, Glazer simply asked Abrams whether he had the last word on the edit of the 124-minute movie. Abrams confirmed that tidbit with a straightforward, “Yeah, yeah.” But then he went on to add, “But when you do a Disney project, there’s a clause in there that you kind of go, ‘Well, if I were a lawyer I could probably drive a truck through it…’”