Re: Favorite Movie?

by Bluemouse Fri Dec 10, 2010 5:05 am

Have you seen this thing?
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/01/05/pocahontas-avatar/

Of course I'll acknowledge that there are really only a handful of story archtypes when you boil them all down, but the producers of Avatar even said that they weren't trying to make a movie so much as create a brand. They said light on plot, heavy on marketability. They said it like that was a good thing.

And of course I know Fight Club. I loooove Edward Norton ("...And this button-down, Oxford-cloth psycho..."). I'm not a total devotee of the movie, despite my punk roots, but it was definitely a big movie for me when I saw it. The movie Capote comes to mind. I really liked it, and Phillip Seymour Hoffman is fantastic. And he's originally from the next town over from me, which is neat.

by anegge Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:14 am

[quote="Bluemouse":1f1umi99]
Of course I'll acknowledge that there are really only a handful of story archtypes when you boil them all down,

Please do not suggest that "people are bad at telling stories" (or "people are intentionally bad at telling stories because of how much they crave money") is equal to "there are no stories left to be told", tia.

by Psychopatrick88 Fri Dec 10, 2010 6:17 am

My favorite movie? The Room by Tommy Wiseau. It's a fuckin masterpiece.

by ThatOneGuy Fri Dec 10, 2010 2:40 pm

[quote="Psychopatrick88":13fggvkw]My favorite movie? The Room by Tommy Wiseau. It's a fuckin masterpiece.

I saw that movie, it was freaking hilarious!

by Bluemouse Fri Dec 10, 2010 3:10 pm

[quote="anegge":3f837pqb]Please do not suggest that "people are bad at telling stories" (or "people are intentionally bad at telling stories because of how much they crave money") is equal to "there are no stories left to be told", tia.

No, that's not what I said at all. I'll give you an example, since we're on this board... let me find the article. Also how could people be bad at telling stories? What would you compare them to?

To talk specifically about pro wrestling, there's this article that I read a while back about the idea of storytelling.
http://sportales.com/wrestling/story-telling-in-pro-wrestling-what-is-it-exactly/

There's a great deal of room within the framework of pro wrestling to develop storylines and all that, but they pretty much all tend to fit into the one story archetype. And with other sorts of things, count how many movies or books or whatever you find with the lord of the rings plot (such as the movie 9, the animated one). Reduce rom-coms or romantic movies to their core elements etc etc, there are only so many shapes that stories have regardless of how differently they're decorated.

by CantMakeMehTap Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:33 pm

I saw an avatar fricken tree ordiment at the store. I was like OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!! Freaking hyper-ventilating in Wal-mart. It was fricken 20 dollars! Ill be dammed if Im paying 20 dollars....

by Lobo Fri Dec 10, 2010 11:52 pm

[quote="CantMakeMehTap":24lo88ik]I saw an avatar fricken tree ordiment at the store. I was like OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!! Freaking hyper-ventilating in Wal-mart. It was fricken 20 dollars! Ill be dammed if Im paying 20 dollars....

Again... Heavy on Marketability....

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