“Ne changer rien pour que tout soit different”
-Godard
Thanks to my basic French knowledge, I interpret this quote as “Don’t Change anything because everything is different”.
Which means that everything in this life is subjective. Things in this life are never going to have the same meaning from everyone. People think different from each other, to “change” thinks is not going to help at all. People make their own decisions, ideas and conclusions. People are free to think what they want to think, to believe in what they agree, to learn from life what they want to learn. No one tells you what your feelings and ideas should be.
In cinema the word “Toi” is the base of the different interpretations. “Toi”, a French word which means “you”, refers to the person or spectator that analyzes a piece of art, in this case, cinema. Whatever your personal opinion about a piece of art is, that’s what’s better for you. You have the last conclusion. |
"There was theatre, poetry, painting, dance, music. Henceforth there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray."
- Wrote Jean- Luc Godard in a review of Bitter Victory.
Nicholas Ray was an American film director better known as “The Glorious Failure of an American Director” . Nicholas was revered in Europe more than in his native America for his auteur tendencies. Ray was nevertheless a major force in Hollywood in the Fifties. Godard's films abound in multiple references to Nicholas Ray's films.
Classic films are the best way to describe history of cinema. Just like any other art movement in history, Cinematography has born, develop, change, evolve and transform. A single film doesn’t narrate all the history of film. To decode all history it’s necessary to take a look in all the movements that came out from cinematography, and not only the American film , also the European Asian , etc.. Is necessary to consider the first films in history, because today’s movies are never going to be capable to project the past 100 years in an honest way. |
Good cinema tends to replace or substitute many things, such as experiences, ideas, emotions by implementing and showing “false” scenarios and histories that will remain in the audience memories. In my opinion Films are like shared experiences that everyone chose to live. Motion pictures and sound in the film are captured and processed, this process goes thanks to our senses of sight and hearing. Film can create the illusion of traveling to other place, other time or other life. In films you are able to “live inside the protagonist body”. Histories in film may replace your own life for a moment and substitute it with the characters life.
Irving Grant Thalberg was an American film producer. He known as "The Boy Wonder" for his extraordinary ability of selecting the right scripts, choosing the right actors, and achieving the best production staff. |
"Hollywood is a balance of art and commerce, it just depends on what side of the scale you rest on. - MICHAEL DOUGLAS
“The media has always been powerful … The Hollywood community consists of individuals bound together by intense competition.” - KATHLEEN KENNEDY
Nowadays, the Hollywood industry is one of the most powerful and influential enterprises in the world. Focusing on the film industry, Hollywood controls the standards that mostly all other film companies try to follow. From the beginning of the film era, Hollywood had grown and evolve, always encouraged business. Hollywood has had always a great influence on other countries. It is a strong and big organization that has a lot of profit.
In my personal opinion, nowadays, most of the Hollywood Films consist on just a “girl” and a “gun”. Most of this films, show girls like a sexual object. Sex scenes abound in entertain films. I don’t totally disagree with this point. But sadly, making a girl appear in a movie just for lustfulness, is something historically “normal”. This is a topic I would really like to deepen. I think that cinema is the guilty of this sexual ideology. Historically there have been a lot of movements that deal with women as a sexual object for men. In my opinion, cinema, from its origins has implement it. Pretty women were used to catch the male audience, then, women roles were even more seductive and secondary, making the men roles look always as a hero. Definitely for the hero to exist, there has to be and antagonist, and with this, violence and fights. Male heroes doesn’t have only a “helpless “girl to save, they also use violence to achieve this. The word “gun” best represent violence in films. So therefore, the typical “heroic” movie is best represented by a gun and a girl. “Humiliated and offended” are the best words that describe women history around the fil industry. Fortunately there exist some “feminist” films in which the girls honor and integrity is defended, and others in which women are the protagonist. |
“You shouldn't dream your film, you should make it!" - Steven Spilberg |