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His approach to adapting stories is worth thinking about. He didn't take a book/story and start carefully adapting scenes. He used them as a starting point.
Which is like most people's biggest complaint about modern adaptations. Writers who write their own story on top of something else. It can work but for a lot of writers it really doesn't.
Great films, very thoughtful. But created at a time when movies were slower paced in general. Watching one of those movies today, can be very trying on people's patience.
I think if you're going to start watching classic films, you need to slowly get into the theme of it. Watch a couple older films without any expectations. Get used to the pacing. Then start going into the classics.
When watching these older films, turn off your phone, shut down all distractions, just focus on the film. There's too many demands on your attention right now, to really steep into the classics
It’s good
I never really appreciated 2001: A Space Odyssey
Okay this is my favorite movie. Got to see it in theaters rereleased. It took me almost 10 watches, and being stoned enough, to finally see what it’s really about. The spaceship is a penis, the black hole is a vagina, and humans are the sperm. That’s it.
The trippy spacetime warp scene is just traveling through a birth canal
It’s quite boring. I’ve watched it once or twice and get how iconic and culturally significant it is though.
My issue with the film is the ending. Everything before the technicolored lights scene I really enjoy. While the ending is iconic, that's the part I find boring. (And as a result leaves a boring taste in my mouth after watching.)
It's quite incredible if you think how well he immagined technology and how fantastic it looks for being 55 years old, which makes it almost look like a generic science fiction film, except that generic science fictions films look like that because he did it before the others. But yes, the pacing is reallly really slow and can be quite boring unless your interest is thouroughly studying every scene in it for it's symbolic meaning and the cultural impact it had
Yeah, sci-fi stuff was definitely boundary-pushing for a movie. Unfortunately our modern attention deficient brains are not compatible with lots of older movies. It makes me really appreciate classics that stood the test of time. Movies like 12 Angry Men or anything by Hitchcock or Kurosawa keep you at the edge of a seat even today.
His best film is Paths of Glory.
wonderful on weed.
this post was submitted on 20 Oct 2024
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