So called classics
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- kezza_20
I do think designers can be a sheep like sometimes. What is the right film, the right computer, the right jeans, the right t-shirt, the right console, the right whatever.
The role of designers is to create and en-rich culture. Designers should create trends not follow them.
To do that you have to be open minded, and have a sponge like approach to stuff. Try it all, old films or whatever. Inspiration come from funny places sometimes.
If you close yourself off to one aspect of culture, frankly you won't be a good designer.
- unfittoprint0
Vertigo.
It's all in there.
- DutchBoy0
very wise words, kezza!
have QBN drugged you? (like clockwork orange?)
hehe.. j/k.
but no, i agree.
i am feeling a thread coming up on this touchy subject btw.....
- kezza_20
Hey open mindedness, is my excuse for sleeping with midgets, and taking mind altering drugs.
- BonSeff0
wise words indeed kezza
- DutchBoy0
haha, kezza.
but for real, good point.
should have a thread here about this when more people are around.
the majority is having turkey now..right?
- kezza_20
A whole thread on what brand whores designers are. Could get messy.
- DutchBoy0
"Could get messy"
exactly!
:P
- heathen0
right on kezza! creatives should draw influence from everything, past or present... mainstream or underground, amazing and shitty.
also wanted to mention that aliendn is totally right, Hitchcock would spend days, weeks, months just setting up the perfect shot even if it only showed in the movie for a couple seconds. the guy was insane! he would painstakingly reconstruct environments and settings to play on latent visual images hinted throughout the movie.
the camera techniques that he used are copied even today. the sweeping wide angle shot in Notorious, that "vertigo" effect aliendn was talking about, painting on film (called rotaring i believe?) etc. were all just work-arounds to special effects limitations of that time.
plus the man had SAUL BASS do alot of the credits on his movies, and those are amazing on their own!!
- godbcdy0
all i have to say is... the killing is kubrick's best film, and... if charlton heston weren't such a badass, i might feel compelled to call him a bitch for having such a stupid accent in touch of evil.
- usrper0
i appreciate everyones comments. i admit it was idiotic to say im trying to find a clue about how to watch movies by starting this thread. thats attempting sarcasm with an empty stomach.
and about the hitchcock bit, i really didnt' mean to demean his stuff. its just how i felt watching SOME of his movies first time round. i guess its also true that its a matter of taste.
- bk_shankz0
I'm not a big fan of Citizen Kane. It feels like wtaching Spielerg's stuff to me. Just too polished and too predictable.
But I really like Hitchcock and I think rear Window is his best film and I've loved it since I was a 12 years old when my attention span was so limited. Normally I hate a movie that has only one location but I think Rear Window is so great and the tension is incredible. And directors like Depalma owe their entire body of work to him.
- heathen0
usrper, dont worry dude...you are partially right... some of the movies deemed "classic" by some people arent all that. Hitchcock even made a bunch of shite movies... esp in his last couple of films.
- JamesEngage0
Should point out that I can't watch Vertigo as it makes me feel sick... not coz of the 'vertigo' aspect but because of the grade of the film, the colors dive me nuts.
- usrper0
theres a restored version. and a documentation of how they restored it at the end of the mov. quite nice.
- bk_shankz0
Usrper,
maybe you should try some Pekinpah. Good stuff if you think the other movies are tame or not interesting.
- Gorbie0
just watched citizen kane the other night... it's a great film.
maybe you just can't appreciate the subtleties? I personally love movies wit long involving takes. movies that don't shove your face into the focus... but rather absorb you into atmosphere.
try playing along and be a more active subject, instead of passive and impatient.
- bk_shankz0
I don't like how the people act int it. Everybody has a real plastic quality to them. The dialog is so stiff. I would rather watch woody allen.
- Gorbie0
some... yes. definately.
maybe someday we'll look back and think that all those movies in the early 21st century were so-oo over dramatic.
- JazX0
I saw 'Rope!' last night on TMC, wasn't so bad. 'Vertigo' was also pretty good. Depends on how you see it.