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Playing Favorites
when my relation troy suggested to me that we blog involving our 25 favorite albums and movies, it got me thinking about the difference between ‘favorite’ and ‘best’. i have kind of touched on this a little with this post about my appetite in movies, and how that taste evolves above time. i also perfectly explained in my post about indiana jones and the last crusade that that film holds a particularly close place in my film-going heart. it is the first mist where i started to notice other aspects of filmmaking besides the action on the screen. what is the difference between ‘favorite’ and ‘best’ anyway? is there a imbalance? to me it’s the difference between something like the virgin spring and aliens. yes, those two films have nothing to do with each other, except after the fact that i control the former in towering regard. i would even location it on my rota of the 25 greatest films yet made. aliens? probably not. but there are fewer films i can think of that i find more entertaining than james cameron’s hyper-kinetic action/sci-fi masterpiece. which brings about another dispute: are films by bergman, ozu, fellini, etc. not entertaining? can only oustandingly budget movies or genre pictures be called entertaining? and if so, is this a way that more straightforward film-goers fully get across the difference between the two in broken to save their credibility? is there a prestige between film and movies?i require always explained to people that film, unequal to only one artistic mediums, has the ability to revolution perspectives and make profound statements about life. it’s the most interesting of art forms (to me) and i adoration nothing more than absorbing the philosophies and images of a bergman or fellini. but would i just pop in cries and whispers while i’m working on a crossword puzzle or cleaning the apartment? probably not. it’s a video that requires your utmost attention to its finely crafted details; simply it cannot be half-watched. a film liking aliens even so can, and i would argue it can still be enjoyed the unaltered as if you were giving the take your full attention.of course i am speaking primarily of my favorites; films i have seen time and time again, that for some reason keep me coming back for more. some of these are honourable great films that i grew up with; others are more serious films that i have contrived over the years. but i keep coming back to the debate that i faced a tons when i worked at a video store: can a ‘heavy’ film (like bergman) be entertaining? i come up with it can, and i over most of his films are exhilarating experiences. sure, not in the steven spielberg/george lucas sense, but they unique and life altering experiences with motion picture. they also consist of moments where the pieces seem to fit from other films. as you watch these classics and masters at work, one can see how other films have been influenced by, and utilized the skills that the bergman’s and the fellini’s used years before them. understanding the referential aspect of film is only obtainable by watching movies that are often timed deemed ‘too serious’.
that term bothers me, because there are plenty of bad movies made recently that people claim to love, but i would qualify them as ‘too serious’. this can funds a number of things, but i mostly attribute this to the filmmakers thinking that their film is a lot more important than any other film released that year because they are making an important societal report. films be babel, children of men, crash have garnered both a lot of praise and a lot of hate. i didn’t as a matter of course point to the in the beginning two films entertaining or effective (although i could appreciate the plane that went into them), but i enjoyed crash (i’m not ashamed, i don’t worry how much passage cred i lose because of it) and found it unusually done with-the-top operatic and witty. this is an example of a popular film that many regular joe movie-goers create to be both serious and engaging. i would say the same about a motion picture much the same as 8 1/2, undoubtedly the best film i have till the cows come home seen, and coincidentally one of my favorite movies, too. it’s a film experience unlike any other and i can safely noise abroad that i would enjoy watching the f
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