Notes | Q |
Story telling is joke telling. Affirmations help convey our live’s meanings. “There isn’t any one you could learn to love unless you heard their story.” | |
Stories should give you a promise. The audience want to work for their meal but don’t know they are doing it. Unifying theory of 2+2 make the audience work for it. Stories aren’t predictable. | |
William Archer.” Drama is anticipated mingled with uncertainty.” Stories are about tension release meaning knowing what the outcome of a story might be. story has guidelines not hard fast rules. | |
A well told story always needs a good theme. | |
best stories infuse wonder. | |
Experiences captured in story telling through truth. | |
Summary: when making a good story telling you need to provide accurate details about the story and working on being firm with deadline in order to have steps being done to clear work off your head. It has to have curiosity, love, villian, and objective. | |
Month: March 2022
Story of Film- Episode 2 – The Hollywood Dream
1918-1928: The Triumph of American Film…
- Citizen Kane (1941) dir. Orson Welles
- “Hollywood would work wonder with light” .
- The Thief of Bagdad (1924) dir. Raoul Walsh
- “Baghdad has madnficient features.”
- Desire (1936) dir. Frank Borzage
- “the face of dietrich provides shadow of cast”
- Gone with the Wind (1939) dir. Victor Fleming
- “Blown by the wind”
- Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) dir. Mervyn LeRoy
- “There was creations of abstract through the patterns of geometry.”
- Singin’ in the Rain (1952) dir. Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen
- “Even Shadows have light”
- The Maltese Falcon (1941) dir. John Huston
- “Starts were angels with dirty faces.”
- The Scarlet Empress (1934) dir. Josef von Sternberg
- “Paramount style.”
- The Cameraman (1928) dir. Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton
- The camera shows the character is facinated.
- One Week (1920) dir. Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton
- “Thought like an archietct.”
- Sherlock Jr. (1924) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Buster Keaton
- Three Ages (1923) dir. Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline
- Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) dir. John Spotton
- The General (1926) dir. Clyde Bruckman and Buster Keaton
- Divine Intervention (2002) dir. Elia Suleiman
- Limelight (1952) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- City Lights (1931) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- The Kid (1921) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Bad Timing (1980) dir. Nicolas Roeg
- The Great Dictator (1940) dir. Charlie Chaplin
- Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) dir. Jacques Tati
- Toto in Color (1953) dir. Steno
- Awaara (1951) dir. Raj Kapoor
- Sunset Boulevard (1950) dir. Billy Wilder
- Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder
- Luke’s Movie Muddle (1916) dir. Hal Roach
- Haunted Spooks (1920) dir. Alfred J. Goulding and Hal Roach
- Never Weaken (1921) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- Safety Last! (1923) dir. Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor
- I Flunked, But… (1930) dir. Yasujirō Ozu
…And the First of its Rebels
- Nanook of the North (1922) dir. Robert Flaherty
- “Used as realism to undermine Hollywood Fantasy.”
- The House Is Black (1963) dir. Forough Farrokhzad
- Sans Soleil (1983) dir. Chris Marker
- The Not Dead (2007) dir. Brian Hill
- The Perfect Human (1967) (shown as part of The Five Obstructions) dir. Jørgen Leth
- The Five Obstructions (2003) dir. Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth
- Blind Husbands (1919) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Lost Squadron (1932) dir. George Archainbaud and Paul Sloane
- Greed (1924) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- Stroheim in Vienna (1948)
- Queen Kelly (1929) (shown as part of Sunset Boulevard) dir. Erich von Stroheim
- The Crowd (1928) dir. King Vidor
- The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder
- The Trial (1962) dir. Orson Welles
- Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) dir. Yakov Protazanov
- Posle Smerti (1915) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
- “Uses an open door to create a slit on screen like a Vermeer painting.”
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Ordet (1955) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- “The master of paired down decor”
- The President (1919) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Vampyr (1932) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- “Features shadow against a white wall.”
- Gertrud (1964) dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Dogville (2003) dir. Lars von Trier
- Vivre sa vie (1962) (introduced in Episode 1) dir. Jean-Luc Godard
- “The Passion of the Joan of Arc.”