Ask almost any established screenwriter, and they’ll tell you that ideas are essentially worthless – and that’s true…up to a point. After all, you can come up with the most groundbreaking premise for a movie ever conceived of, but if you can’t transform this concept into an equally impressive screenplay, then your idea isn’t worth […]
Day: August 29, 2018
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10 Great Movies That Are Ambitious Failures
Ambition in art, and specifically in cinema, is always complicated. As much as we as an audience want filmmakers to take risks and aim to make the best movie they can, it’s never pleasant when artists shoot for the stars without the talent to back it up. Moreover, ambitious projects are always a risk, commercially […]
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10 Great Movies That Have The Quality of a Novel
Does art imitate life, or does life imitate art? And where does that divide start to blend? Great works of art—whether literature, film, visual arts, or otherwise—make that boundary disappear, and they demonstrate how many artists view life as if through a prism that reflects and diffracts its own reality. Some great works of art […]