this is true and that's why Tarkovsky is the greatest filmmaker of all time. It's almost impossible in the medium of film to express yourself through your art in the same way a poet, musician, painter, or novelist is able to
Americans: I don't care what Mao did, he was a mass killer
Also Americans: Sure the founding fathers owned slaves and committed genocide. But they were good people who loved freedom
The character arc is the engine of the story and every story has its own unique story arc with a unique situation to make that arc maximally impactful, so naturally every story is gonna demand something different the screenplay. This paint by numbers shit cannot possibly help you
this is why i cringe whenever i hear an otherwise pretty knowledgeable film critic talk about Save The Cat like it's the Quran of screenwriting. The book literally tells you what to write on and on which page. Complete and utter bullshit
“for once” lmao all you people have done is live off of the exploitation of the global south. all you have done is improve your own lives while everyone else pays the price. you’re not the main character of the world and you don’t matter more than anyone else
Jaden McDaniels, deadpan delivery, on what worked for the Timberwolves offensively.
Jaden: Go at Jokic, Jamal, all the bad defenders. Tim Hardaway, Cam Johnson, Aaron Gordon, their whole team.”
Q: They’re all bad defenders?
Jaden: “Yeah, they’re all bad defenders.”
One time i was in a hotel room with some friends so we turned on the tv and I saw Witness For The Prosecution on a movie channel so I said "Hey this one's super good, let's watch it." The moment we switch channels he yells "Black and white!?" and changes it back to Family Guy
I tried to gently explain to someone who is not a film person why the "good for its time" stuff rankles so much--her eyes glazed over *instantly*. If we were taking about books or music, this asinine line of thinking (which 99% of people believe) would fall apart right away.
We live in an empire that has the luxury to have two political parties pretending to have drastic political economic differences, while in reality, they both support capitalism, imperialism, settler colonialism, war, dispossession, state-sanctioned death, and destruction.