Iron Man (Favreau 2008), The Lord of the Rings series (Jackson 2001), Harry Potter series (Columbus 2001) or Avatar (Cameron 2009) are not only the examples of high-grossing Hollywood films over the last decade, but also the illustrations of how visual effects have transformed Hollywood filmmaking. ... This essay aims to find out the effectiveness of CGI and how does it influence on the narrative power with Hollywood movies by looking at the filmmaking grounds where the arising issues of the impact of VFX on storytelling by undertaking the following questions: Does the use of VFX undermine th...

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