Favorite Cinema Moments: Part 1
Need I explain? Nothing too elaborate, just a few sentences. Perhaps you think it's a waste of time, well...it actually doesn't take a long time, it's fairly simply, and since I don't play video games regularly you can count this as my waste of time. Most of thoee are taken from my DVD collection.
While putting these together I started to realize how powerful one image can have on an audiences' mind for a long period of time. I'd ask others, "What do you think of, what scene, what image?" when I mentioned a movie and they'd always have SOMETHING in their mind, usually very specific. I think it's important to know what imagery you are putting into peoples' imaginations, to be responsible for the good and bad.
Here's a quote I really liked. Though it relates to books, movies can easily be substituted:
"A great man was once asked which one of all the books he had read had most affected his life. His response was that he could no more remember the books he had read than he could remember the meals he had eaten, but they had made him. All of us are products of the elements to which we are exposed. We can give direction to those elements and thereby improve the result. Make every effort to enrich your environment with the reading of good books." (Gordon B. Hinckley "Stand a Little Taller" p.40)
So here's my first of MANY:
"Lawrence of Arabia"
Saw it in the theater, 70mm!!! Jaw droppingly beautiful. I love this scene, the audience squints, adjusts their glasses, jaw drops, "What's wrong? What is it? Is there something there? What are they looking at? Oh, I think I see it? Wha?" The close-ups that follow seem to be more powerful perhaps because of this wide and lengthy shot. Great filmmaking.
While putting these together I started to realize how powerful one image can have on an audiences' mind for a long period of time. I'd ask others, "What do you think of, what scene, what image?" when I mentioned a movie and they'd always have SOMETHING in their mind, usually very specific. I think it's important to know what imagery you are putting into peoples' imaginations, to be responsible for the good and bad.
Here's a quote I really liked. Though it relates to books, movies can easily be substituted:
"A great man was once asked which one of all the books he had read had most affected his life. His response was that he could no more remember the books he had read than he could remember the meals he had eaten, but they had made him. All of us are products of the elements to which we are exposed. We can give direction to those elements and thereby improve the result. Make every effort to enrich your environment with the reading of good books." (Gordon B. Hinckley "Stand a Little Taller" p.40)
So here's my first of MANY:
"Lawrence of Arabia"
Saw it in the theater, 70mm!!! Jaw droppingly beautiful. I love this scene, the audience squints, adjusts their glasses, jaw drops, "What's wrong? What is it? Is there something there? What are they looking at? Oh, I think I see it? Wha?" The close-ups that follow seem to be more powerful perhaps because of this wide and lengthy shot. Great filmmaking.
Labels: liveaction, stills
posted by THE samacleod around 9:35 PM
3 Comments:
haha, awesome indeed. Dude, I've been watching your blog for a while now, and I think you have alot of interesting things to say, and show about the film media, and art in general. Keep it coming!
I'm posting! So I saw the new Rocky last night. The last image is beautiful. Closeup of Roses on a gravestone. Rocky in the distance. The camera loses focus on him and he completely disappears. That's gonna last awhile in my head.
thanks ya'll
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