September 2009
8 posts
“I want to make movies because there are stories to be told, not because there is...”
– mrmontagne
“Art is a physical manifestation of beauty, and the greatest art, like the...”
– mrmontagne, a lover of art and artists
Death and Jealousy
Put these on a forum, I like them, I want to keep them, here they are.
On death
I can’t imagine dying will be particularly pleasant but I think death will be just like before I was born - no use being sad about a scenario in which you won’t exist. And if there is an afterlife then I would like to believe that a presumably benevolent deity would judge me for my actions and not my...
“‘No community is best served when only the elite have control’”
– JJ Abrams
August 2009
5 posts
Books in to movies
Made in response to someone trying to explain why a movie of a book can never be a good thing and, as a result, should never be made
I think you need to understand the movie industry more. The only things books and movies have in common is that they both have a story. Taking the story from a book and putting it on the screen is very difficult. Firstly you need to arrange the scenes in such a way...
My inspiration as an aspiring writer
I suppose I’ve had many inspirations to become a writer over the many years of my teenage life. I think firstly is the books I read when I was around 13 like ‘The Book of Dead Days’ - this book really got me in to the whole idea of the gothic and led me to classics such as ‘Dracula’ and modern classics like ‘The Shadow of the Wind’. The obsession of one genre is...
What movies are classics?
Posted in response to a forum thread asking which films should be considered classics
I tend to despise ‘Hollywood’ from around 1990 onwards so it’s kind of difficult for me to find mainstream modern classics. The only recent ‘classic’ blockbuster I can think of is The Dark Knight, but, as amazing as the film was, I don’t see it lasting for as long as say…...
"You like films? Psh..."
One thing that will always baffle me is the common view that films are an inferior art form - if they are considered an art from at all. The assumption that films are innately dumb is widespread through society and is completely wrong. People are always telling me that books are better than films - that “you get more out of them”, but I take offence to this. The reason I feel so...