2016年03月09日
Movie Talk #1: One You Might Not Have Heard Of!
Hello!
Today, I want to talk a little bit about a subject I hold near and dear to me, the movies. I have been a big fan of movies ever since I can remember, and at one point, was even going to school to learn to be an actor with the purpose of trying to be in them.
In the last couple of years, I have seen fewer and fewer of them, for a number of reasons: I havent had the time to spend watching movies like I did in high school and university, and the kind of movies that I enjoy just aren't being made in great numbers anymore. I have never been a fan of the slew of superhero movies that have been made in the last decade or so (with the exception of the Dark Knight series, which I love), and many of the Hollywood made films just don't interest me.
The kinds of movies that I enjoy has always been hard to define. Like music, movies to me are an art form, and there's no way to express in black and white terms what's good and bad. Generally, if there's a unique story or something about the filmmaking that shows a personal touch, I'll be much more receptive to that movie. Sometimes it's a filmmaking technique, or an actor's performance that strikes a personal note with me, but there has to be something that I can identify with as an audience member.
One great example of both a personal touch in directing, and standout performances by the actor is a Russian film that was produced during and after the second world war called Ivan the Terrible. It is part biography and part metaphor, detailing the life and rise to power of one of the most infamous Russian Tsars, Ivan IV. Done entirely in black and white (except for one sceen near the end), thus film was made during a time of great artistic repression by the state, and has been the subject of many controversies in its time, mostly due to the idea that people weren't sure if it was pro-soviet or anti-soviet at the time.
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, who was the father of modern day filmmaking and the inventor of many of the film techniques that are used today, Ivan The Terrible is a fascinating study of the corrupting influence of power, even for a good purpose. I have not seen if there are Japanese subtitles available for this movie (it's all in Russian, of course, andn I had to watch with the English subtitles), but there have been lots of printings and re-releases of it through the years, and I'm sure a copy of it exists either online or in video stores.
Alex
Today, I want to talk a little bit about a subject I hold near and dear to me, the movies. I have been a big fan of movies ever since I can remember, and at one point, was even going to school to learn to be an actor with the purpose of trying to be in them.
In the last couple of years, I have seen fewer and fewer of them, for a number of reasons: I havent had the time to spend watching movies like I did in high school and university, and the kind of movies that I enjoy just aren't being made in great numbers anymore. I have never been a fan of the slew of superhero movies that have been made in the last decade or so (with the exception of the Dark Knight series, which I love), and many of the Hollywood made films just don't interest me.
The kinds of movies that I enjoy has always been hard to define. Like music, movies to me are an art form, and there's no way to express in black and white terms what's good and bad. Generally, if there's a unique story or something about the filmmaking that shows a personal touch, I'll be much more receptive to that movie. Sometimes it's a filmmaking technique, or an actor's performance that strikes a personal note with me, but there has to be something that I can identify with as an audience member.
One great example of both a personal touch in directing, and standout performances by the actor is a Russian film that was produced during and after the second world war called Ivan the Terrible. It is part biography and part metaphor, detailing the life and rise to power of one of the most infamous Russian Tsars, Ivan IV. Done entirely in black and white (except for one sceen near the end), thus film was made during a time of great artistic repression by the state, and has been the subject of many controversies in its time, mostly due to the idea that people weren't sure if it was pro-soviet or anti-soviet at the time.
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, who was the father of modern day filmmaking and the inventor of many of the film techniques that are used today, Ivan The Terrible is a fascinating study of the corrupting influence of power, even for a good purpose. I have not seen if there are Japanese subtitles available for this movie (it's all in Russian, of course, andn I had to watch with the English subtitles), but there have been lots of printings and re-releases of it through the years, and I'm sure a copy of it exists either online or in video stores.
Alex
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