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Post by kims on Jul 7, 2024 2:36:40 GMT
I like the film. I'll dare a minority opinion here. I prefer tighter or maybe call it leaner scripts and editing. An example is after Dreyfus enters to mother ship, there are three shots of groups of the Earth techs staring in wonder at the aliens. More than one shot is excessive for me.
Many films have scenes of some variation where the good guy wins or a couple finally unite in romance films and there's a crowd applauding. There's a suggestion that I don't know how I'm supposed to feel; mostly I think there is some need that we have an audience to all our personal triumphs. If Casablanca were made today, would there be a crowd at the airport to cheer Bogie for doing the right thing?
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Post by I Love Melvin on Jul 12, 2024 12:41:24 GMT
I like the film. I'll dare a minority opinion here. I prefer tighter or maybe call it leaner scripts and editing. An example is after Dreyfus enters to mother ship, there are three shots of groups of the Earth techs staring in wonder at the aliens. More than one shot is excessive for me. Many films have scenes of some variation where the good guy wins or a couple finally unite in romance films and there's a crowd applauding. There's a suggestion that I don't know how I'm supposed to feel; mostly I think there is some need that we have an audience to all our personal triumphs. If Casablanca were made today, would there be a crowd at the airport to cheer Bogie for doing the right thing? That's an interesting take on it. One of the most frequent criticisms of Spielberg in general is that he may be overly susceptible to the warm and fuzzies. I hadn't thought of it in terms of multiple shots duplicating the same emotional tone, but I can easily see how it would strike you that way. It could almost make you long for the aliens zapping the dove of peace after being accorded a dignified formal welcoming ceremony in Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! (1996). I think you hit on something with the idea of audiences needing validation. You see it more in live theater audiences now too, who applaud and/or rush to their feet so frequently that it makes me uncomfortable. I'd rather watch the whole thing unfold and pay my respects afterward in the "traditional" way, unless something particularly extraordinary happens, but I guess a new "tradition" has come into being. Audiences now seem to want some kind of credit for being part of the proceedings, as if they're on some kind of equal footing with all the actors and artists who bring something to the stage. Audiences are and always have been essential to the life of the theater, but now they seem to have forgotten their place and are just as inclined to validate their own ability to appreciate art as they are to recognize the performance, and it's not on a strictly low brow/high brow divide either. In terms of movies, filmmakers may have decided it's necessary to indulge audiences in this kind of wish-fulfillment self-gratification by including so many emotional signifiers and so much congratulatory affirmation, like the cheering crowds you mentioned. |
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