I just finished watching Up again. It's a story about seeing your dreams become real. The last image we see is the wife's house over the waterfall, befoer a sweet "and then this happened" to accompanying the other wise boring (for kids) credits.
The movie ends when the story has finished being told, which is at two points in this movie. The first is when we see the old man as the old man he is for the main of the movie, once we've been shown his life from childhood to marriage to burying his wife. Their little story is very intimate, and very one sided as he says rather two words during the whole scene, and nothing else whenever he's rememebring his wife.
The movie sadly degenerates into action once the plot has been delivered and everyone's "hopes and dreams" communicated. It follows the beautifully well written, call and answer style of a good movie, but it confuses me as to why there is so very much attention and love put into the start of our story if the juice of that effort is more like %5 of the rest of the story.
We see an old man who wants to grant his deceased wife's wish. He meets a childboy who wants to go on a real adventure. Who are confronted by an established adventurer, torn from the spotlight as a wrongful fraud. The relation between the characters, taken from Frank's pov (that's the old man's name, right?) are apparent but not immediate.
Russell is the child adventurer inside Frank himself. The old baron who's trying to reclaim his dignity is the angry old man Frank could have become, hellbent on his now obsessive target.
The graphics and visual, as always, are perfect and stunning and pay an interesting mix of attention to realism. Russell's face is smooth and lucid, like a chubby childs as he is. Though we see Frank's ears are practically pentagonal. What do you make of that? During the abduction scene we see a backlit Russell silhouetted against the screen, yet his ears are a translucent red, as the powerful searchlights permeate through his skin - again this fantastic depth of realism with very realistic character, essentially blood puppets.
The first time I saw Up at the movies I enjoyed the experience, but felt as though the movie was another "mass production" for having all the same hijinks of a classic Disney/Pixar make. Too comfortable, no new ground really broken. You may decide to give credit for the use of blood in the movie (maybe Bambi has also used visual violence and the dead zebra's cut off leg in Lion King) but that's a minor step of newground compared to what I'm meaning.
The same can be said of Quentin Tarantino's newest Inglourious Basterds, though with QT it feels much more like it's just "QT at the movies again." It's not that bad with Up, it just feels as though they've found a formula and have stopped working on it.
It's great for the kids, and adults will like it as well, but it gets mean and the adventure is, if you can't believe in houses flying thanks to balloons, unbelievable. This is made with kids primarily in mind however, so don't it, or yourself, so seriously.
The Incredibles and Toy Story are still my top choices for Disney/Pixar's best movies, while Up sits in the top 3 definately. You may feel Wall-E deserves a mention, and I'd agree it gets a top 5 spot but the most of Wall-E was an experiment in making dialogue-poor robots emotionally receptive to the audience, which they did astonishingly well. I'm not a tree hugger nor do I hate them, but the environmental message attached to Wall-E made a solid block of "Real world" for the audience to digest, which I'm not sure was received well. It teaches a good lesson to those watching, but at a fantastic cost to an amazingly fantastic sci-fi world with very emotional robots - real world reminder.
Up is a great movie and definately another notch in Disney/Pixar's belt for another CG classic, and it'll be love forever like most of Disney's movies. (Mulan, we're sorry but the doors on your left) Enjoyable, sweet, adventuring and grounded with real world sentiments and lessons. Considering how very much they could've screwed this up, they've gone a shimmering colourful job.
Squirrels!!
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Just some old broad...
Gentlemen prefer blondes... made too long ago for me to know what the movie scene was like, and applying it to today's standards seems like it'd need a new eye, something like "old movie DVDs in todays audience." It is one of Marilyn's most famous roles so for all things Marilyn start here. There's annoying songs (old movie songs have always annoyed me) but with a fun storyline that is a little uninvolved for the viewer. Think of the storyline involved in The Importance of Being Earnest or The Big Lebowski, then drop it down 5 levels. There ya go!
Also we don't have any Marilyns or Jane Fonda's in this movie day and age, which is a shame. The closest I can think of is Scarlett Johanson in Lost in Translation, but she's losing that more and more with each movie, adopting the same "style types" as each other big actress out there.
Rather than giving a score out of 10 for older movies I figure I'd rate them on relevance to today's society, as well as movie historical value as well. Gentlemen prefer blondes? OH yeah, there isn't any chance of hearing about Marilyn without hearing about this movie. Jane Russell was also in it, but boohoo.
Also we don't have any Marilyns or Jane Fonda's in this movie day and age, which is a shame. The closest I can think of is Scarlett Johanson in Lost in Translation, but she's losing that more and more with each movie, adopting the same "style types" as each other big actress out there.
Rather than giving a score out of 10 for older movies I figure I'd rate them on relevance to today's society, as well as movie historical value as well. Gentlemen prefer blondes? OH yeah, there isn't any chance of hearing about Marilyn without hearing about this movie. Jane Russell was also in it, but boohoo.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
This week in movie watching kingdom...
...nothing much has happened. Monday came and went quite forgetably, tuesday I wasted at uni and around penrith and thursday I was a model for a mate's photoshoot in the city. Pics might be forthcoming, I dunno.
Regardless the last movie I remember watching was Clockwork Orange, as indicated by the opening picture of my last update, good ol' Alex D'Large. If you read up on Anthony Burgeous you'll find out he's written plenty of books, non of which are any good, besides CO, which he wrote as a joke anyway. His writer friends dared him to write a piss take style of dystopian future and look at what it's become. Not only that, but in the book Alex and his mates where black clothing, in the heighth of fashion, no white with codpieces, oh my readers.
I started a word document of all the movie I watched and figured out you'd 1000 films a year if you stuck to Truffaut's 3 movies a day thing. 1000 a year, the stat is unimaginable! Regardless I'm being very slack this week, galvanting around with people instead of doing anything with movies, or uni work, or anything but people I'm galavanting around with.
As such movie time is choked so I can't really promise anything, certainly not this week. I plan to atleast finish off Coraline and hopefully Romper Stomper, who sits by my computer desk still unwatched since I bought it off eBay.
Happy bit of house-shopping the other day. No, not for me - I went looking for vids in my own house and found 5 DVDs of greatness to watch, so they're stacked up and ready to go, soon as I move off the lot I've currently got. I could dedicate myself to 1 movie a day this year, and maybe 2 next? Blah, stupid planning. I'm not even french!
Currently have Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Streetcar Named Desire and One Flew over the Cuckoos nest on my desk for movies to watch.
Regardless the last movie I remember watching was Clockwork Orange, as indicated by the opening picture of my last update, good ol' Alex D'Large. If you read up on Anthony Burgeous you'll find out he's written plenty of books, non of which are any good, besides CO, which he wrote as a joke anyway. His writer friends dared him to write a piss take style of dystopian future and look at what it's become. Not only that, but in the book Alex and his mates where black clothing, in the heighth of fashion, no white with codpieces, oh my readers.
I started a word document of all the movie I watched and figured out you'd 1000 films a year if you stuck to Truffaut's 3 movies a day thing. 1000 a year, the stat is unimaginable! Regardless I'm being very slack this week, galvanting around with people instead of doing anything with movies, or uni work, or anything but people I'm galavanting around with.
As such movie time is choked so I can't really promise anything, certainly not this week. I plan to atleast finish off Coraline and hopefully Romper Stomper, who sits by my computer desk still unwatched since I bought it off eBay.
Happy bit of house-shopping the other day. No, not for me - I went looking for vids in my own house and found 5 DVDs of greatness to watch, so they're stacked up and ready to go, soon as I move off the lot I've currently got. I could dedicate myself to 1 movie a day this year, and maybe 2 next? Blah, stupid planning. I'm not even french!
Currently have Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Streetcar Named Desire and One Flew over the Cuckoos nest on my desk for movies to watch.
Sunday, August 23, 2009
On my oddy knocky.
How do I get pictures to work on this? HTML OK?
I guess so then. Now, *ahem*. Watched Frost/Nixon, what a wonderful piece of history, journalism and psuedo-sympathy for a tyrannical man. The most interesting aspect of the movie is the constant parallels drawn between Frost and Nixon, and their twin goals of breaking through into that "promised" land, that status of the Gods, that of being Successful in America.
Beyond that, if you know the story you get it told again but in a very convincing and touching format. Brilliant acting all round, with a few beautiful points that the savvy watcher will have asked themself during the watching of the movie, such as when Nixon asks Frost "Maybe we got it mixed up, do you think? I should've been the talkshow host and you the president of America."
It really illustrates the charismatic monster that Nixon was, seeing he knew what he'd done and yet still covered up with a plans to return to politics. He kept things to himself which I'd aquate to using Charisma on yourself to keep your conscience from stopping you from any certain action. The problem with people like that, however, the ego feeders, the self strokers, the people who're convinced they know everyone else, or can atleast pin down their "type" after a simple examination, is that everyone is vulnerable to beginning to believe them just because they sound so confident in what they say.
I've seen it plenty of times, it plenty of ways. The boss of any group is the one who makes the most noise, and is very often the one who starts things. Monkeys beating each other with bones in Space Oddysey, Tyler Durden beating on the narrator in Fight Club, The Boss chewing out Ann Hathaway in the Devil Wear's Prada (We apologise for the reference to the Devil Wears Prada and promise to not let Fox Murdoch repeat such an act. - Editor). Until someone comes along with a "louder" way of saying things the status quo remains the same. Hitler got germany going, didn't he?
What makes this spectacular is that Nixon's ego was big enough to take on the whole of a nation that he had wronged. Even better was the fact that Frost was the hero needed to slay the beast. No one thought he could do it, considering the size of everything and especially his own talents (What, a few talk shows?) so it was truly a David and Goliath situation.
Sorry, now I'm just praising the whole story of good versus evil. The movie tells a story and draws it up as such, it's not simply "Frost is the guy that got a confession out of Nixon, end of story." It's much more like "This is what Frost was against - everything." A spoken-word hero, a legend of interaction.
Quite happy to have this on my DVD shelf, a history lesson kids these days would actually watch.
7/10? Extra point 5 for Frank Langella's portrayal of Nixon.
WAIT A MINUTE! I started with a picture of Alex from Clockwork Orange, what relevance did that have? I was going to do two small reviews of Frost/Nixon and CO but I guess I'll just close with the emotions kicked up by the first 7 minutes of CO and nothing more:
This is boys will be boys, pushed to the extreme. Violence, rape, sex, their own language, yet still of high intelligence, taste and culture. Watching Alex and his droogs battle Billy Boy and his gang just makes me wanna join in.
I guess so then. Now, *ahem*. Watched Frost/Nixon, what a wonderful piece of history, journalism and psuedo-sympathy for a tyrannical man. The most interesting aspect of the movie is the constant parallels drawn between Frost and Nixon, and their twin goals of breaking through into that "promised" land, that status of the Gods, that of being Successful in America.
Beyond that, if you know the story you get it told again but in a very convincing and touching format. Brilliant acting all round, with a few beautiful points that the savvy watcher will have asked themself during the watching of the movie, such as when Nixon asks Frost "Maybe we got it mixed up, do you think? I should've been the talkshow host and you the president of America."
It really illustrates the charismatic monster that Nixon was, seeing he knew what he'd done and yet still covered up with a plans to return to politics. He kept things to himself which I'd aquate to using Charisma on yourself to keep your conscience from stopping you from any certain action. The problem with people like that, however, the ego feeders, the self strokers, the people who're convinced they know everyone else, or can atleast pin down their "type" after a simple examination, is that everyone is vulnerable to beginning to believe them just because they sound so confident in what they say.
I've seen it plenty of times, it plenty of ways. The boss of any group is the one who makes the most noise, and is very often the one who starts things. Monkeys beating each other with bones in Space Oddysey, Tyler Durden beating on the narrator in Fight Club, The Boss chewing out Ann Hathaway in the Devil Wear's Prada (We apologise for the reference to the Devil Wears Prada and promise to not let Fox Murdoch repeat such an act. - Editor). Until someone comes along with a "louder" way of saying things the status quo remains the same. Hitler got germany going, didn't he?
What makes this spectacular is that Nixon's ego was big enough to take on the whole of a nation that he had wronged. Even better was the fact that Frost was the hero needed to slay the beast. No one thought he could do it, considering the size of everything and especially his own talents (What, a few talk shows?) so it was truly a David and Goliath situation.
Sorry, now I'm just praising the whole story of good versus evil. The movie tells a story and draws it up as such, it's not simply "Frost is the guy that got a confession out of Nixon, end of story." It's much more like "This is what Frost was against - everything." A spoken-word hero, a legend of interaction.
Quite happy to have this on my DVD shelf, a history lesson kids these days would actually watch.
7/10? Extra point 5 for Frank Langella's portrayal of Nixon.
WAIT A MINUTE! I started with a picture of Alex from Clockwork Orange, what relevance did that have? I was going to do two small reviews of Frost/Nixon and CO but I guess I'll just close with the emotions kicked up by the first 7 minutes of CO and nothing more:
This is boys will be boys, pushed to the extreme. Violence, rape, sex, their own language, yet still of high intelligence, taste and culture. Watching Alex and his droogs battle Billy Boy and his gang just makes me wanna join in.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Thinking Movies
Hallo readers, am recovering quite well from the joint 30s of my bro and bro-in-law last night. Reflecting on the 3 movies a day idea, and that I'm willing to count not-at-the-movie movies I wondered if that wouldn't make things easer.
Today I got an email from someone on youtube, responding to a comment I made ages ago on a video clip called "Doll Face." Go watch the vid if you haven't, links here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8n9ZhtWfWU and then come back and read on. It's only about 2 minutes.
I think I would count that as a movie, because it has the start middle end modal and credits as well as being 100% special effect. Asthetics aside it also asks a big question of it's audience: is this just a robot who unfortunately breaks itself or is this us, in some way, struggling to get our own wants?
The tone of the piece (shouldn't that be palette? - Editor) and sound used really creates a somber attitude as Doll Face, a literal "jill in the box" watches TV and tries to emulate a face that appears with make up, and then coloured eyes/skin. This smacks of personal identity so much despite being so removed from the human being experience (we aren't robots, last time I checked).
Finding something to identify with, emulating it, then wanting more. It's all about that feeling of yes, I belong. It's why I wanna run movie nights at uni, it's why people dress in clothes at all. A lack of clothes itself is a statement, usually "I'm naked and a possible looney".
Regardless it's a gorgeous tragic little piece, and is sure to scare away half it's audience just because it's a human-faced robot with a long millipedic neck/body configuration. That's raises another interesting side effect of watching so many movies, you get to grow used to things and they cease to have an effect on you.
I'm talking specifically violence, the bizarre, and biggest of "horror". Horror hasn't ever worked on me, not the jump out the screen at you stuff. The violence though, it's present in every thing. I'm thinking deliberately Kill Bill, when Uma Thurman fights the Crazy 88. Apart from being a brilliant piece of action it's also a proper blood bath as limbs and feet and such are cut off, and many lives are ended. Yet we watch that without disgust or concern, because our heroine has done it, in the name of getting revenge.
So watching Doll Face I wasn't personally creeped out by the android human face, but I feel plenty of people would be horrorfied at the "cyborg abomination" they see. That's a problem movie makers face, the notion of potential audience turning away at the slightest sick-feeling in their stomach, heart or mind. I reckon I'll be happy if I ever hear about something like that happening, it means I've caused a response.
Enough wasting your time. Stole Clockwork Orange off my brother yesterday and also watching Frost/Nixon today. Alongside Doll Face that's 3, wohoo!
Today I got an email from someone on youtube, responding to a comment I made ages ago on a video clip called "Doll Face." Go watch the vid if you haven't, links here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8n9ZhtWfWU and then come back and read on. It's only about 2 minutes.
I think I would count that as a movie, because it has the start middle end modal and credits as well as being 100% special effect. Asthetics aside it also asks a big question of it's audience: is this just a robot who unfortunately breaks itself or is this us, in some way, struggling to get our own wants?
The tone of the piece (shouldn't that be palette? - Editor) and sound used really creates a somber attitude as Doll Face, a literal "jill in the box" watches TV and tries to emulate a face that appears with make up, and then coloured eyes/skin. This smacks of personal identity so much despite being so removed from the human being experience (we aren't robots, last time I checked).
Finding something to identify with, emulating it, then wanting more. It's all about that feeling of yes, I belong. It's why I wanna run movie nights at uni, it's why people dress in clothes at all. A lack of clothes itself is a statement, usually "I'm naked and a possible looney".
Regardless it's a gorgeous tragic little piece, and is sure to scare away half it's audience just because it's a human-faced robot with a long millipedic neck/body configuration. That's raises another interesting side effect of watching so many movies, you get to grow used to things and they cease to have an effect on you.
I'm talking specifically violence, the bizarre, and biggest of "horror". Horror hasn't ever worked on me, not the jump out the screen at you stuff. The violence though, it's present in every thing. I'm thinking deliberately Kill Bill, when Uma Thurman fights the Crazy 88. Apart from being a brilliant piece of action it's also a proper blood bath as limbs and feet and such are cut off, and many lives are ended. Yet we watch that without disgust or concern, because our heroine has done it, in the name of getting revenge.
So watching Doll Face I wasn't personally creeped out by the android human face, but I feel plenty of people would be horrorfied at the "cyborg abomination" they see. That's a problem movie makers face, the notion of potential audience turning away at the slightest sick-feeling in their stomach, heart or mind. I reckon I'll be happy if I ever hear about something like that happening, it means I've caused a response.
Enough wasting your time. Stole Clockwork Orange off my brother yesterday and also watching Frost/Nixon today. Alongside Doll Face that's 3, wohoo!
Friday, August 21, 2009
Truffault? Too tough.
I learned recently that Francois Truffaut, in an effort to educate himself, watched 3 movies a day and read 3 books a week. Fascinating numbers, but that's genuinely a fulltime job. Consider the average length of a movie, say between 90 minutes or 2 hours, and the extra long ones (LOTR's 3 hr stretch comes to mind) and you've got an average of 1 hour 45 minutes per movie, or 5 hours of sitting and watching every day. If you wake up at 9am and hit bed at 10 that's a 13 hour day and with 5 of those watching movies that's an 8 hours for other things. Such as life, and all that tricky stuff. Forget cramming a book into that too, how much did this guy actually get done on an average that wasn't research or self-education via osmosis like absorption?
Man I do love the english language. It lilts and lies upon my tongue like lavender drops on lilac kittens. Enough digression. I heard the stats and of course tried to mimic them, and so far haven't managed it until today. The movies that is, I'm not concerning myself with the books. And today it's only a technical achievement. The movies?
1. District 9. Very good, at Hoyts, Penrith with Jason S.
2. Finished watching Cats: the musical. I don't think this should really count, but you must consider the "DVD movie" that it is, it's not a live performance infront of your glazzies (eyes)
3. Hulk vs Wolverine
4. Hulk vs Thor
See what I did there? The last two are on the same DVD, sure, and they're really age-old stories because Marvels diverse character range has existed for near 70 years now, but I'm counting them as two individual movies because there's great variety in how a movie exists. "Short cartoon" movies aren't any less movies than epic scifi's.
As for "finished Cats" I download movies and watch them, or get them off a friend and watch them, but that usually means I get half way through and am bored by the novelty of the medium, that is the non physical DVD. If I didn't pay for it and can't hold it then it's not really real, so my interest for some reason wanes and I end up getting halfway, then turning it off and, I dunno, eating dinner. You know, I have anything else on.
So I resolved to finish off all movies I had started, which meant Cats, Coraline and Space Oddysey 2001. Oddysey I had never intended to view in several sittings but leaving it as the last thing I do of a night? Setting myself up for some major ninja nods there. Coraline was interesting but seeing I had the option of "get on with life" or "continue watching predictable kids claymation movie, where good triumphs and the style is now old-fashioned compared to earlier days" I chose life.
Whatever, the point is today I did manage to watch 3 (4!) movies and am closing the gap between Half watched and Fully watched. Next I have to work on watching the DVDs I bought off eBay after being inspired by whatever Hunter said in Screen Media. No, not Hunter S Thompson, he wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (though that is a brilliant movie). Hunter Corday, Screen Media lecturer. At the moment Frost/Nixon tops that list, and then Romper Stomper. Also must get around to watching Trainspotting.
I figure averaging 1 movie a day should do for now.
Man I do love the english language. It lilts and lies upon my tongue like lavender drops on lilac kittens. Enough digression. I heard the stats and of course tried to mimic them, and so far haven't managed it until today. The movies that is, I'm not concerning myself with the books. And today it's only a technical achievement. The movies?
1. District 9. Very good, at Hoyts, Penrith with Jason S.
2. Finished watching Cats: the musical. I don't think this should really count, but you must consider the "DVD movie" that it is, it's not a live performance infront of your glazzies (eyes)
3. Hulk vs Wolverine
4. Hulk vs Thor
See what I did there? The last two are on the same DVD, sure, and they're really age-old stories because Marvels diverse character range has existed for near 70 years now, but I'm counting them as two individual movies because there's great variety in how a movie exists. "Short cartoon" movies aren't any less movies than epic scifi's.
As for "finished Cats" I download movies and watch them, or get them off a friend and watch them, but that usually means I get half way through and am bored by the novelty of the medium, that is the non physical DVD. If I didn't pay for it and can't hold it then it's not really real, so my interest for some reason wanes and I end up getting halfway, then turning it off and, I dunno, eating dinner. You know, I have anything else on.
So I resolved to finish off all movies I had started, which meant Cats, Coraline and Space Oddysey 2001. Oddysey I had never intended to view in several sittings but leaving it as the last thing I do of a night? Setting myself up for some major ninja nods there. Coraline was interesting but seeing I had the option of "get on with life" or "continue watching predictable kids claymation movie, where good triumphs and the style is now old-fashioned compared to earlier days" I chose life.
Whatever, the point is today I did manage to watch 3 (4!) movies and am closing the gap between Half watched and Fully watched. Next I have to work on watching the DVDs I bought off eBay after being inspired by whatever Hunter said in Screen Media. No, not Hunter S Thompson, he wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (though that is a brilliant movie). Hunter Corday, Screen Media lecturer. At the moment Frost/Nixon tops that list, and then Romper Stomper. Also must get around to watching Trainspotting.
I figure averaging 1 movie a day should do for now.
Now for some ground rules?
First off I want to say hi, thanks for reading. Bored or not this blog is DEVOTED to movies and what I think of them and compare them to, so I'm going to get wordy and expect, as a response, verbal arguments and reasons for/against everything I say. There's plenty of minds out there that want this kind of discussion and faceBook is NOT the place to find it.
Having said that I'll move onto what I'm planning on being the main of the posts found here. Movie reviews, duh, and movie techniques, which is rather a varied topic and can include anything. Maybe it's costumes and how well they were used in Dracula (so good they made up for Keanu Reeve's plastic Englishmen) or how to do action, properly, depending on the size of your combatants (Transformers destroying buildings makes sense, they're large robots getting thrown around. Small humans having the same effect? That's asking too much of your audience, especially if they aren't Superman in strength/endurance).
Also expect the odd whimsical piece where I just wax philosophic about movies I love, and for the inexplicable reason that I simply due. The current "hot shot movie" without question nor qualification is Barbarella. Dazzlingly gorgeous main lead, 70/80s buzz, kitsch up your arse and sci-fi -- my personal dreamscape. Despite having said all that though I don't really have a great movie in mind (I am going to make them, you know) that has a sci-fi base. Most of the ideas I do have are all everyday human type affairs where the conflict is character driven. How boring, I know!
There wont be any posts about movie idea's I'm currently writing about, but there may be one or two sprinkled lightly such as when inspirations strikes yet I know it wont stick around to see the "movie idea" germinate into anything more than a single scene. I'll leave you with a quote from Mark Rosewater, who quoted someone else (his lecturer) who was quoting yet another person concerning movies (Mark Rosewater did a Communications course, and is the Head Designer of Magic: The Gathering cardgame):
No scene is worth a line, no movie is worth a scene.
Having said that I'll move onto what I'm planning on being the main of the posts found here. Movie reviews, duh, and movie techniques, which is rather a varied topic and can include anything. Maybe it's costumes and how well they were used in Dracula (so good they made up for Keanu Reeve's plastic Englishmen) or how to do action, properly, depending on the size of your combatants (Transformers destroying buildings makes sense, they're large robots getting thrown around. Small humans having the same effect? That's asking too much of your audience, especially if they aren't Superman in strength/endurance).
Also expect the odd whimsical piece where I just wax philosophic about movies I love, and for the inexplicable reason that I simply due. The current "hot shot movie" without question nor qualification is Barbarella. Dazzlingly gorgeous main lead, 70/80s buzz, kitsch up your arse and sci-fi -- my personal dreamscape. Despite having said all that though I don't really have a great movie in mind (I am going to make them, you know) that has a sci-fi base. Most of the ideas I do have are all everyday human type affairs where the conflict is character driven. How boring, I know!
There wont be any posts about movie idea's I'm currently writing about, but there may be one or two sprinkled lightly such as when inspirations strikes yet I know it wont stick around to see the "movie idea" germinate into anything more than a single scene. I'll leave you with a quote from Mark Rosewater, who quoted someone else (his lecturer) who was quoting yet another person concerning movies (Mark Rosewater did a Communications course, and is the Head Designer of Magic: The Gathering cardgame):
No scene is worth a line, no movie is worth a scene.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
