Comments on: The Responsible Filmmaker, the Educated Viewer, and the Wonder of Existence! http://www.intothehill.com/film-reviews/the-responsible-filmmaker-the-educated-viewer-and-the-wonder-of-existence/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:14:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Andrew Kern http://www.intothehill.com/film-reviews/the-responsible-filmmaker-the-educated-viewer-and-the-wonder-of-existence/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Andrew Kern Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:12:46 +0000 http://www.intothehill.com/2008/03/28/the-responsible-filmmaker-the-educated-viewer-and-the-wonder-of-existence/#comment-355 David, Your review is eye-opening and insightful. The part I find difficult to grasp is how theatre can hope to be like real life. It's in two dimensions, on a screen, without smells and tastes, for a framed period of time, with people who aren't actually dying and aren't actually even present. It seems to me that theatre is, like every art, an imitation of nature in a rather specified way and that specification determines the elements of real life that the art can imitate (thus, for example, music can imitate the movements of the soul sonically and has a strong necessary correlation to time, while painting is visual and has a looser connection to time). So what does a movie maker or critic mean when he says the movie should be like real life? David,

Your review is eye-opening and insightful. The part I find difficult to grasp is how theatre can hope to be like real life. It’s in two dimensions, on a screen, without smells and tastes, for a framed period of time, with people who aren’t actually dying and aren’t actually even present. It seems to me that theatre is, like every art, an imitation of nature in a rather specified way and that specification determines the elements of real life that the art can imitate (thus, for example, music can imitate the movements of the soul sonically and has a strong necessary correlation to time, while painting is visual and has a looser connection to time). So what does a movie maker or critic mean when he says the movie should be like real life?

]]> By: T Clair http://www.intothehill.com/film-reviews/the-responsible-filmmaker-the-educated-viewer-and-the-wonder-of-existence/comment-page-1/#comment-351 T Clair Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:44:50 +0000 http://www.intothehill.com/2008/03/28/the-responsible-filmmaker-the-educated-viewer-and-the-wonder-of-existence/#comment-351 "...as long as these works have vitality, as long as they present something that is alive, however eccentric its life may seem to the general reader, then they have to be dealt with; and they have to be dealt with on their own terms." "It's not necessary to point out that the look of this fiction is going to be wild, that it is almost of necessity going to be violent and comic, because of the discrepancies that it seeks to combine." --Flannery O'Connor, "The Grotesque in Southern Fiction" “…as long as these works have vitality, as long as they present something that is alive, however eccentric its life may seem to the general reader, then they have to be dealt with; and they have to be dealt with on their own terms.”

“It’s not necessary to point out that the look of this fiction is going to be wild, that it is almost of necessity going to be violent and comic, because of the discrepancies that it seeks to combine.”
–Flannery O’Connor, “The Grotesque in Southern Fiction”

]]> By: Bethany http://www.intothehill.com/film-reviews/the-responsible-filmmaker-the-educated-viewer-and-the-wonder-of-existence/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Bethany Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:30:45 +0000 http://www.intothehill.com/2008/03/28/the-responsible-filmmaker-the-educated-viewer-and-the-wonder-of-existence/#comment-350 Each time I read your writing, especially when it concerns matters of film and art, I am pleasantly surprised by how beautifully (and simply) you express the power and importance of excellence in art. It also directs me to check myself and whether or not I am actually being a "discerning film-goer"...which, thanks to you, I have discovered is well worth the effort. Keep up the good work. :) Each time I read your writing, especially when it concerns matters of film and art, I am pleasantly surprised by how beautifully (and simply) you express the power and importance of excellence in art. It also directs me to check myself and whether or not I am actually being a “discerning film-goer”…which, thanks to you, I have discovered is well worth the effort.

Keep up the good work. :)

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