Post the movies that have made you feel like picking up the camera and making a movie of your own?
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Post the movies that have made you feel like picking up the camera and making a movie of your own?
Pic unrel btw lmao.
No it's not. Stalker has a special meaning to me. It proves that you can make one of the all time best movies, with just 3 actors in abandoned commie block ruins. So filmmaking isn't about money, it's about skill and script.
Looks like a bit more than that to me...
Just a teensy bit more
Well, I am talking about overall scope. They didn't need to lock down streets of a big capital city, get helicopters and shit involved, and have like 200 extras + a big main cast. What is on screen itself, is very minimal. made for only 1 million rubles, and like half of that budget went into Tarkovsky either intentionally or unintentionally fricking up the footage that they had filmed.
Yes I more or less agree with your initial post, I'm just yanking your balls
Just have to remember that this wasnt just any production, it was a GOAT director, cinematographer, and composer, and top-tier cast and crew. Carefully selected locations, half of which were actually constructed on a soundstage. Script adapted(!) from a good book. And even then they ran into tons of problems, went over schedule and over budget, replaced personnel, etc etc.
But yeah, in terms of WYSIWYG it is certainly inspirational
Not to mention that the locations they shot on in Estonia, gave the director, actors and cast members cancer.
And didn't they have to shoot the whole thing twice?
Babby's first serious film.
Not really. But it was the one that left an impression on me.
No Stalker is literally the best movie ever made
If your only experience watching cinema is Hollywood slop, then I guess?
400 Blows
All entry level slop. Try harder.
That is the wrong attitude to take. When something inspires a person, it inspires them. It's as simple as that. You are looking at it all wrong. This isn't about showing off your elitist taste, this is about what made you wish to be a filmmaker.
I feel bad for my filmmaking buddies I knew throughout HS and a few years after, they made a lot of films and acted a bunch and really made an effort to get better but it ultimately boiled down to lacking resources and actors, couldnt hurt if they wrote more but they ended up getting locked into desperate projects they could never do without a better team, me I wanna be a musician and I can atleast record it all on my own but my problem is I need a band thats into the music and wants to work on it and play live, I need like 3-4 more guys, my buddies need 10 grand and like 10-50 people
thats kind of the point
Well, unlike being a novelist, or even a solo musician, a film is a team effort.
Depends on the film you want to make
James Benning does everything himself for instance
I hadn't seen this movie in years, and I just remember it being another one of Kurosawa's early films. But on a rewatch I think it may be his best. Not his most advanced or convoluted, but pristine and everything, every movement and framing of the camera, done with force, making it his most moving story. Every frame is beautiful and perfect.
Primer
You don't want to be a director, you want to be a pseud.
>12 angry men
Based.
I want to be a filmmaker, and these are the films that inspired me the most. Once I get the chance, I will be making something in this spirit.
Watch more films
And I dont mean that in a nasty way, but really watch more films and you might be surprised what you might find
I do that every day. I have went far and wide.
I really doubt that if those are the films that inspired you the most
Why not? When I watch Mann or De Palma movies, I feel the most inspired. These are the type of movies I want to make.
Well. they themselves had inspiration. Look into that.
I like nearly every film on this chart but the fact that this is your specific collection of good films is incredibly cringe and borderline preposterous.
Why though? Can you actually put it into words, why this is cringe? Also, what inspires people can be very subjective. I am not claiming that these are the best movies ever made, and these are not even my personal favorites. These are the ones that inspire me to pick up the camera.
If you would have to make such a list, what would you put there? No seriously, what would you consider non preposterous?
Pretty good lineup.
Is it even possible to become a filmmaker if you didnt start at a young age or gained experience as an actor first or are rich?
In smaller countries? yes. In america? no.
Kurosawa mostly.
Mean Streets
whoops haha sorry
A lot of directors first movies inspire me.
Watch the Shaun of the Dead commentary. Edgar Wright's first real movie after making some student films and a tv show.
They talk about how they got the idea for each shot, and funny things that happened while setting up or executing it. Makes you realize that even a brilliant films is just a series of good ideas that are made back to back. You realize that you or it need somewhere around 35-50 scenes for a movie and you could actually do it too if you had a good enough starting point and technical skill to make it appear professional.
Well props to them for improvising a lot.
Heh
I'll see how this goes. I've been getting the creative bug recently hard, mostly probably from my mushroom trips. What really hit me is The Matrix. You feel a lot more on the drug and notice more. But okay the pacing, the framing, everything nice and tight. It made me want to work on something creative and complicated. I'm curious about it all really, the cameras, the script.
But then there's the how, you need other people who are on the same page. At the moment maybe it's start small, lend my voice to someone's cartoon or something. You're not going to make some space adventure right off the bat.