Roger&Me
Bluelighter
As an aspiring filmmaker (well, technically I've made two films already, but they're only 20 minute shorts--festival pieces really, and the first one was a piece of shit), I see movies in a different way than most "laymen" do and when I write now, I tend to write what I want to see in a movie which is usually very different than what the average movie watcher wants to see, so I thought it would be refreshing to ask your opinion on it (I also want to point out that I don't mean "average movie watcher" condescendingly at all, as many people on this forum are fantastically knowledgeable about movies, what I really meant was people who aren't involved with making movies, as one's perspective truly and irreversibly changes once they've learned and practiced the process of actually making a movie--which is very disadvantageous to the filmmaker as you can't go back to what it was like to just "watch" and enjoy a movie, now I study it as I watch it, and pick it apart scene by scene--it's impossible for me to get lost in the story! BAAAAH!
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So now that you know where I'm coming from, I'll explain the question further: it could be anything that draws you into a movie and makes it enjoyable to you. It could be a particular setting, a particular camera style, a particular genre, ANYTHING really as long as you find it favorable in a movie, and would choose a movie containing that characteristic over one that lacks it.
I'll start it off: First and foremost, I look for movies that showcase relationships between people and don't contain a "main character" but a cast of main characters whose lives interweave. Good examples of movies that contain this characteristic are Nashville, Magnolia, MASH, and The Royal Tenenbaums just to name a select few.
Another characteristic that I look for, and this is probably spawned mainly from academic study of film, is a Jean Renoir/François Truffaut-esque constantly moving camera. Probably the perfect example of this is Casino, followed in a close second by Boogie Nights.
Then there are the movies that I don't even really know why I like, despite countless hours of thinkin' on the subject. For instance, Igby Goes Down is one of my favorite films of all time, and doesn't really contain any of the things I usually look for in movies. It's full of frequent cuts, and contains a definite main character. I dunno, maybe it's just that it's a damn good movie despite lacking certain things that I like.![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
)So now that you know where I'm coming from, I'll explain the question further: it could be anything that draws you into a movie and makes it enjoyable to you. It could be a particular setting, a particular camera style, a particular genre, ANYTHING really as long as you find it favorable in a movie, and would choose a movie containing that characteristic over one that lacks it.
I'll start it off: First and foremost, I look for movies that showcase relationships between people and don't contain a "main character" but a cast of main characters whose lives interweave. Good examples of movies that contain this characteristic are Nashville, Magnolia, MASH, and The Royal Tenenbaums just to name a select few.
Another characteristic that I look for, and this is probably spawned mainly from academic study of film, is a Jean Renoir/François Truffaut-esque constantly moving camera. Probably the perfect example of this is Casino, followed in a close second by Boogie Nights.
Then there are the movies that I don't even really know why I like, despite countless hours of thinkin' on the subject. For instance, Igby Goes Down is one of my favorite films of all time, and doesn't really contain any of the things I usually look for in movies. It's full of frequent cuts, and contains a definite main character. I dunno, maybe it's just that it's a damn good movie despite lacking certain things that I like.
