theonion:

Making his case that the story of Elphaba and Glinda was too big for one picture, director Jon M. Chu defended on Wednesday his decision to split his new film Wicked into 230,400 successive images. “Narratively speaking, it just made sense to break the movie up into hundreds of thousands of pictures,” Chu said in response to criticism from fans of the Broadway musical, explaining that a series of smoothly transitioning images that tricked viewers’ brains into perceiving motion was the b...