'Everything Will Change'; Steven Spielberg Warned Antonio Banderas About CGI

In 1998 Antonio Banderas played the lead role in The Mask of Zorro - a film that turned out to be a real hit, earning $250 million worldwide. The production was much talked about not only because of the participation of the aforementioned star, but also because of the great cast. In the show we could admire Catherine Zeta-Jones and Anthony Hopkins, among others. As it turns out, the movie's set was also visited by Steven Spielberg, who was the movie's executive producer. The actor never forgot his words.

The conversation with the iconic filmmaker was mentioned by Banderas on the occasion of a recent interview with Yahoo! Entertainment, held on the occasion of the film's twenty-fifth anniversary. As the star revealed, during the meeting Spielberg made him realize that cinema will soon change a lot. He announced that The Mask of Zorro could be one of the last superproductions not using CGI.

The director's words cannot be denied truthfulness, and computer effects do indeed play a not inconsiderable role in blockbusters or Marvel superproductions. However, there are filmmakers, trying to shoot some of their works "the old way". Here we should recall Christopher Nolan, who assured that in his latest work - Oppenheimer - did not include a single shot using CGI.

Pamela Jakiel

Pamela Jakiel

Finished film studies, graduate of the Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the Jagiellonian University. Her master's thesis was about new spirituality in contemporary cinema. The editor of the Filmomaniak service since April 2023, supports the lead editor and the boss of all newspeople. She used to write for naEkranie. If she's not watching The Ninth Gate for the hundredth time, then she's reading books by Therese Bohman and Donna Tartt for the first time. She prefers gnosis over dread, dramas over horrors, Jung over Freud. She looks for symbolist paintings in museums. Runs long distances, and does even the longer ones on a gravel. Loves dachshunds.