Miami Vice embraced a high-tech look while Hollywood clung to the past

Miami Vice embraced a high-tech look while Hollywood clung to the past

Almost as soon as there were films shot digitally, there were filmmakers trying to get the new technology to ape the old. In 1999, George Lucas snuck a few shots captured on a prototype high-definition digital camera into The Phantom Menace—a film otherwise shot on 35mm—and was so encouraged by how the images matched the look of film that, three years later, he delivered the first all-digital blockbuster with Star Wars: Episode II—Attack Of The …