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cayman shen
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Re: Movies, what is their function?
A film can be many things. It can be meant to purely entertain, or to educate, or to inspire, or to postlytize, or to ennoble. Film is simply visual literature. All the things books may desire to accomplish, film can as well. Some of them are popcorn, some of them will change your life.
A film can be many things. It can be meant to purely entertain, or to educate, or to inspire, or to postlytize, or to ennoble. Film is simply visual literature. All the things books may desire to accomplish, film can as well. Some of them are popcorn, some of them will change your life.
MooCriket
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Re: Movies, what is their function?
What's a moie?
As far as movies go...pure escapism for me. Even a bad movie, if entertaining enough can make you forget about the day to day worries for a couple of hours, and maybe even provide you with a laugh as well...and that is A-ok with me.
What's a moie?
As far as movies go...pure escapism for me. Even a bad movie, if entertaining enough can make you forget about the day to day worries for a couple of hours, and maybe even provide you with a laugh as well...and that is A-ok with me.
SSgt Burton
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Re: Movies, what is their function?
Movies are my friends.
Kevin
Movies are my friends.
Kevin
darthgordon
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Re: Movies, what is their function?
Oh my God... movies are many, many different things and serve so many different purposes.
They're entertainment... since Man first stared into the fire and told stories; he's (not in a sexist way) desired entertainment. Music, books, television, games, plays... all of these things help fill that need. Movies are one other part of that.
They can often be a way to convey a message or social commentary. They can teach us about problems in the world, or teach us moral lessons.
They can be a way for people to spread a message or point of view.
They can make us think. They can teach us about ourselves. They can teach us about history. They make us feel emotions… they can give us a hero. They can stimulate the imagination. They can touch a person with an idea that they’ve never had before.
They can open us up to the world, or close it for us… depending on the message the movie spreads.
They can be art, or they can be mindless escapism… or even something in between.
Movies are the new medium for tales. Had Homer or Shakespeare had the ability to do so, they would have made movies.
Of course, they generate revenue. They create jobs. They create money for the studios... and some just plain suck.
Oh my God... movies are many, many different things and serve so many different purposes.
They're entertainment... since Man first stared into the fire and told stories; he's (not in a sexist way) desired entertainment. Music, books, television, games, plays... all of these things help fill that need. Movies are one other part of that.
They can often be a way to convey a message or social commentary. They can teach us about problems in the world, or teach us moral lessons.
They can be a way for people to spread a message or point of view.
They can make us think. They can teach us about ourselves. They can teach us about history. They make us feel emotions… they can give us a hero. They can stimulate the imagination. They can touch a person with an idea that they’ve never had before.
They can open us up to the world, or close it for us… depending on the message the movie spreads.
They can be art, or they can be mindless escapism… or even something in between.
Movies are the new medium for tales. Had Homer or Shakespeare had the ability to do so, they would have made movies.
Of course, they generate revenue. They create jobs. They create money for the studios... and some just plain suck.
Re: Movies, what is their function?
make people argue on the internet
make people argue on the internet
mr deckard
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Re: Movies, what is their function?
nowadays it is to make money
nowadays it is to make money
CTF
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darthgordon
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Re: Movies, what is their function?
That's why MGM is broke and in very small print over the Warner Bros WB it says "Pecunia est Totus."
That's why MGM is broke and in very small print over the Warner Bros WB it says "Pecunia est Totus."
Re: Movies, what is their function?
Same reasons people gathered round the fire 10,000 years ago to hear stories.
Maybe that flickering screen is a little like that fire.
Same reasons people gathered round the fire 10,000 years ago to hear stories.
Maybe that flickering screen is a little like that fire.
darthgordon
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Re: Movies, what is their function?
When the fire would pop, it was like a Michael Bay movie.
When the fire would pop, it was like a Michael Bay movie.
Re: Movies, what is their function?
It's not really a storytelling device anymore - now it's just the fire. Just a bunch of cavemen staring at a fire - they know how it happens but not all of them can make their own .
Hollywood unfortunately has it's cake and eats it too - if they want to make a meaningful film - they make it, no matter the risk involved - but what means something to Hollywood isn't always a subject that means anything to you, but through the power of film they hope to change that.
They make garbage most of the time - quick disposable garbage that sometimes means more to some people than it should.
In this day of limitless choices by way of internet, movies are something we all still have in common and I think people need to find common ground more often. It usd to be when you went to school on monday we all watched the same thing on tv and you could talk about it with a group of classmates - not anymore, but everyone has the same films open the same weekend no matter what part of the country you live in. That's why we talk about them. The good and the bad.
It's not really a storytelling device anymore - now it's just the fire. Just a bunch of cavemen staring at a fire - they know how it happens but not all of them can make their own .
Hollywood unfortunately has it's cake and eats it too - if they want to make a meaningful film - they make it, no matter the risk involved - but what means something to Hollywood isn't always a subject that means anything to you, but through the power of film they hope to change that.
They make garbage most of the time - quick disposable garbage that sometimes means more to some people than it should.
In this day of limitless choices by way of internet, movies are something we all still have in common and I think people need to find common ground more often. It usd to be when you went to school on monday we all watched the same thing on tv and you could talk about it with a group of classmates - not anymore, but everyone has the same films open the same weekend no matter what part of the country you live in. That's why we talk about them. The good and the bad.
Colin Droidmilk
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Re: Movies, what is their function?
At the time of their invention, movies were no more than a spectacle to make you go wow on a Sunday afternoon. I'm talking about the very first shorts of trains coming at the viewer etc. But then, soon after, film became an extension of theatre, and took on the whole purpose-spectrum of theatre. Film directing has always been an outgrowth of theatre directing. Thus, cinema shares with theatre the traditional spectrum of puerile distraction at one end and noble edification at the other (edifying =what art does). So, as with theatre plays, some films aim to distract only, and some to edify only, and some try to do both. Humanity has always desired of its entertainment not mere distraction/escapism but also thought-meat to chew on. That goes right back to the ancient Greeks and beyond. And hopefully it'll continue into the future, Hollywood notwithstanding!
At the time of their invention, movies were no more than a spectacle to make you go wow on a Sunday afternoon. I'm talking about the very first shorts of trains coming at the viewer etc. But then, soon after, film became an extension of theatre, and took on the whole purpose-spectrum of theatre. Film directing has always been an outgrowth of theatre directing. Thus, cinema shares with theatre the traditional spectrum of puerile distraction at one end and noble edification at the other (edifying =what art does). So, as with theatre plays, some films aim to distract only, and some to edify only, and some try to do both. Humanity has always desired of its entertainment not mere distraction/escapism but also thought-meat to chew on. That goes right back to the ancient Greeks and beyond. And hopefully it'll continue into the future, Hollywood notwithstanding!
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