Not sure if this even qualifies as a film, but they had a performance of Wagner's
Das Rheingold on PBS last night that I actually really enjoyed. I've never actually watched or listened to an entire opera, don't listen to much classical, and I don't claim to appreciate all of what goes on in that kinda music, but yeah, pretty sweet. They had this ludicrous "thing" that they used as a set piece that was:
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a 45-ton machine that consists of a palisade of two dozen fiberglass-covered aluminum planks that tilt to form various stage configurations. At the opening they move forward and back to create an undulating effect evocative of the surface of the Rhine. In other scenes they serve as a screen onto which video projections add underwater bubbles and other motifs, some of them interactive, triggered by the performers’ movements. And throughout the opera, they swivel to form horizontal platforms or slanting ground planes.
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When it worked it really gave a rather immersive feeling that I don't know would have been possible with a physical set. Of course, being an opera newb, I could be wrong. It also helped that I'm a fantasy nerd and was willing to use my imagination.