Movies that changed the form (and the form you should test!)
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The MetaFilter Moderation Oversight Committee is looking for a few interviewees to test out our intake form. Please consider signing up! However, speaking of form...what are films that changed the form itself? Some contenders:
Batman (1989): Yes, it's now a bit of a Gen-X cringe moment. But for me personally, this dark Gotham and Michael Keaton anti-hero madness rewrote the Christopher Reeve part of my brain and resulted in a 23,000 Mary Sue fanfic script. For better or for worse did it rewrite the genre?
Alien: Need we say more?
Blair Witch Project
Jaws (summer blockbuster)
What are your fav milestone movies? Or...argue with me. Also consider sigining up to test that form. :)
Alien: Need we say more?
Blair Witch Project
Jaws (summer blockbuster)
What are your fav milestone movies? Or...argue with me. Also consider sigining up to test that form. :)
Sex, Lies and Videotape (1989, Steven Soderbergh) basically launched the independent film movement in the 1990s. Here's writer and director Miranda July talking about how it influenced her work.
The box-office success of Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino) made clear that non-linear storytelling was a commercially viable option for filmmakers, putting it on the map for Hollywood forever after. CinemaStix just released a video narrated entirely by Tarantino talking about making Pulp Fiction in archived interviews.
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) was a game changer that is difficult for us to recognize as such on a casual viewing, because its influence was so deep and pervasive that most of its innovations seem pretty conventional now. The American Film Institute asked a lot of famous filmmakers to talk about this film, and put together this three-minute edit distilling all of their remarks.
posted by skoosh at 7:57 AM on March 1 [2 favorites]
The box-office success of Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino) made clear that non-linear storytelling was a commercially viable option for filmmakers, putting it on the map for Hollywood forever after. CinemaStix just released a video narrated entirely by Tarantino talking about making Pulp Fiction in archived interviews.
Citizen Kane (1941, Orson Welles) was a game changer that is difficult for us to recognize as such on a casual viewing, because its influence was so deep and pervasive that most of its innovations seem pretty conventional now. The American Film Institute asked a lot of famous filmmakers to talk about this film, and put together this three-minute edit distilling all of their remarks.
posted by skoosh at 7:57 AM on March 1 [2 favorites]
Someone I knew saw The Matrix for the first time just a couple years ago, and commented half-jokingly on how it felt like it consisted largely of Matrix references. It's definitely one of those movies whose influence on filmmaking was significant enough that it becomes counterintuitively hard to recognize, because so much of what it did (even just things like the bwaaaaaa… BWAAAAAAA sort of soundtrack) became commonplace in the decades since.
posted by DoctorFedora at 1:48 AM on March 14
posted by DoctorFedora at 1:48 AM on March 14
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"Seven Samurai" was much imitated.
posted by TheophileEscargot at 8:19 AM on February 25