5 things I believe as a director:
1. Films are rarely better that their scripts.
2. Films are rarely better than their lead performances.
3. Films are as much sound as picture.
4. Films combine primary art forms: painting/photography, theater, literature, music.
5. Films are emotional experiences.
1. Films are rarely better that their scripts.
2. Films are rarely better than their lead performances.
3. Films are as much sound as picture.
4. Films combine primary art forms: painting/photography, theater, literature, music.
5. Films are emotional experiences.
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Films thrive on collaboration; the synergy of a talented crew can elevate a project beyond individual contributions.
Films reflect culture and society, serving as a mirror that captures the zeitgeist and provokes thought and dialogue 👍
Actors should speak with their expressions.
Words should be used sparingly, so when they are used, they are more impactful.
1. Super quiet dialog but MASSIVELY LOUD EFFECTS?
2. Everything being filmed in the dark?
Good, not figuring out the plot in the first 15 minutes. Multifaceted characters, changing perspectives.
Bad, shaky cameras are not more realistic, 100 angle action scenes.
Ugly, vomit chunks & snot is not required for crying.
10 yrs for a stylistic iteration to run
out. When 1 ends, something new
emerges from an eclectic group
of wonks in a randomly selected
assortment of diff. branches
of Art, often painters & FMs.
The style builds/spreads
throughout culture, & dies.
Then: reset
properly responsive.
Format limits me to 1 point:
As an Artist, I maintain that you
never forget the 1st time someone
robs you of a cool $30m, gets
away with it, and then
blacklists you, so you have to
drink a glass of water and
sit the fuck down.
ps, popcorn WITH butters..
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Lawrence of Arabia, Ran are great scripts, however wouldn't have resulted in extraordinary films if it weren't for the vision of filmmakers like Lean or Kurosawa.
A bad soundtrack and bad sound effects is like a perfectly cooked steak with no seasoning.
The sound was fine. The sound efx/foleys were fine.
Even if most people enjoy a certain film, we were not having the same experience in the theatre.
As for music, I'll watch a film solely based on Hans Zimmer being responsible for the score
It's not deep, it's not heartwarming, it's not moving. It's unnecessary bullshit drama for the sake of unnecessary bullshit drama.
Please. Fucking. Stop. It.
Alexander is one of those. We can also discuss Gladiator I and surely Gladiator II (the movie will go oblivious, not the soundtrack)
Sometimes the emotion I need is deep, gut-wrenching. Other times the emotion I need is mindless humor.
1. If one character says something to another that is obviously known by both but intended to divulge plot to the audience, you lost me.
2. If it would not interest me as a photo, it is probably not better as a movie.
4. Don’t put a gay kiss/sex in the first 5 minutes just to check the box
5. Don’t foreshadow.
It's cheap when it's just shoved into the story, just to turn around and shove it back into the closet.
You have sat up and said, "Oh shit, is there going to be a little romance here," then nope they just wanted to make me look.
6. Films are mostly boring
7. Films are mostly cowboys and Indians in different outfits
8. Films will become mostly documentaries about how great our nation and our Emperor are performing.
Five for five.
I agree.
May I add one thing?
Every film could have been shorter.
(my students don't like to edit but my God do they need to)
1. Science Fiction films do not all require the best CGI
2. Almost no film is better than the original
3. The cameraman should take pride in his work
4. The film is almost never better than the book
5. The cult classics wouldn't exist if made today
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On that note [pun intended], do you include soundtrack in that point? If not, I’d add soundtrack plays a big part in the emotional experience.
From a person who is partially deaf and prefers captions on during movies because the music is too loud to hear the story.
Everything else is good.
Lord of the Rings is featured in this documentary, it has so many themes..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-D4n8WrGFw
Every scene from #1 is perfection in composition and story telling. I believe film schools used to use it to teach directing and editing . Why the huge difference?
the first film was made in 79-80, the second in 84-5...things had changed as far as how they were shot/paced
Spielberg probably didn't want to shoot the same film over again, too.
First film was iconic, and also groundbreaking. If Temple of Doom was re-creating Lost Arc then critics would panned it even worse than they did, calling it 'derivative', I think.
Also the novelty of the first film had faded, so its not the same buzz as it was the first time. ....
(is it arc or ark, I always forget lol)
And unless you do a good job on 5, doing well on 1-4 won't matter.
Case in point: Plan 9 from Outer Space is often called the worst film ever made. Terrible at #1-4. Yet it's a great emotional experience because you're in stitches throughout. It's inadvertently hilarious.
But it doesn't connect emotionally. Perhaps the problem lies in the writing. The villains are too predictable; the heroes likewise.
I won't be recommending Gladiator II to any of them.
Films are social-- they amplify shared emotions.
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