In addition to the giant IMAX theater speakers, the process builds tiny individual speakers into each headset, right next to the viewer's ears. One subtle touch I enjoyed was the effect of an “inner voice” on the soundtrack. There's so much in each scene to look at that I found it hard to focus on the characters because I was checking out other details. There are a few straight dramatic scenes-in a nightclub, in the airline headquarters and with the wife at home-and they're so detailed and realistic, they’re almost distracting. Other shots, of the biplane in a storm, are not quite as impressive, because it’s pretty clear that a model is being used. The film's opening shots, in which a plane seems to hover in the center of the theater space, are far beyond anything 3-D has achieved before. The director, Jean-Jacques Annaud, captures the vastness and beauty of the mountains (actually, the Canadian Rockies) in shots of incredibly clarity, which allow us to see for miles. Outdoor scenes with lots of long shots are best. Because IMAX screens are so large, quick cutting between closeups can actually cause disorientation and even nausea in an audience.
Meanwhile, Saint-Exupery searches for him, and Guillaumet's wife waits fearfully at home. The story: Guillaumet takes off, crashes and spends several days trekking back through breathtaking mountain scenery to civilization. Elizabeth McGovern plays his wife, Noelle Guillaumet and Val Kilmer is Jean Mermoz, the heroic pilot who is his inspiration. A company is established by aviation pioneer Antoine Saint-Exupery ( Tom Hulce) to extend airmail service over the Andes, and Henri Guillaumet ( Craig Sheffer) is the brave pilot who flies his flimsy little craft into mountain storms. “Wings of Courage” finds that more than long enough for its thin story, which involves the early days of commercial aviation in South America. IMAX movies are more or less limited to a 40-minute running time because of the huge size of their film reels (you need a block and pulley to lift one). It's one of only four theaters in the country capable of showing IMAX 3-D (another is the Sony flagship theater on Broadway in New York City).
Mermoz film movie#
The movie is showing at the IMAX Theater at Navy Pier, which recently shut down to install the new projectors necessary for the process. Because the screen is so large, the illusion isn’t constantly being shattered when an object touches the edge of the screen.Īnd because the light source is so strong, the picture isn't dim and washed out. The result is breathtakingly good: The picture at last looks truly three-dimensional. The goggles are high-tech they have liquid crystal lenses that are controlled by radio waves, and each lens blinks 48 times a second, in sync with the projected image. And instead of those flimsy little glasses with the red-and-green lenses, you get space-age goggles that wrap around your head and make you look like Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Now IMAX has developed 3-D to be projected on the world's largest screens, with a process that uses a wider film gauge, more intense light and a brighter screen (covered with five coats of silver).
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