Comments on: Culture Warrior: Good and Bad Biopics http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-good-and-bad-biopics-lpalm.php A Website About Movies Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:57:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cole_Abaius http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-good-and-bad-biopics-lpalm.php/comment-page-1#comment-152635 Cole_Abaius Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:17:09 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/?p=56844#comment-152635 I think the best idea you have in this piece is your last suggestion to lose the destiny crap. There's a tendency, especially in a fame-obsessed society, to see notoriety as a divine will. As something that will eventually just happen to a person if they want it hard enough. Showing a famous figure's hard work and rise through the chaff is far more fascinating.<br><br>Amelia doesn't really have a destiny element, but it also doesn't really have an interesting moment in its run time. It juggles between flight (without really showing the impact that flying has beyond getting her endorsement deals) and a romance that has no spark and is marred by really uninteresting infidelity. I think the best idea you have in this piece is your last suggestion to lose the destiny crap. There's a tendency, especially in a fame-obsessed society, to see notoriety as a divine will. As something that will eventually just happen to a person if they want it hard enough. Showing a famous figure's hard work and rise through the chaff is far more fascinating.

Amelia doesn't really have a destiny element, but it also doesn't really have an interesting moment in its run time. It juggles between flight (without really showing the impact that flying has beyond getting her endorsement deals) and a romance that has no spark and is marred by really uninteresting infidelity.

]]> By: Culture Warrior: Good and Bad Biopics http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-good-and-bad-biopics-lpalm.php/comment-page-1#comment-149996 Culture Warrior: Good and Bad Biopics Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:52:24 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/?p=56844#comment-149996 [...] More info…The successful biopic is something that takes a truly masterful hand to accomplish. A lifetime, like history itself, contains no inherent narrativeno arc or three-act structureyet, like in studying history, we narratavize the exceptional human life in order to better understand it. In biopics this involves a lot of condensing, creative liberties, and difficult executive decision, requiring delicate filmmakers to execute properly and convincingly. Biopic is also sometimes an elusive defini [...] [...] More info…The successful biopic is something that takes a truly masterful hand to accomplish. A lifetime, like history itself, contains no inherent narrativeno arc or three-act structureyet, like in studying history, we narratavize the exceptional human life in order to better understand it. In biopics this involves a lot of condensing, creative liberties, and difficult executive decision, requiring delicate filmmakers to execute properly and convincingly. Biopic is also sometimes an elusive defini [...]

]]> By: Peter Donohue http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-good-and-bad-biopics-lpalm.php/comment-page-1#comment-152634 Peter Donohue Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:27:05 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/?p=56844#comment-152634 I think that Raging Bull is particularly good, especially as a sports biopic, which are often really cliched. I think because it differs vastly from the normal progression, as well as the incredible performances and direction, puts it over the top. I also think Walk the Line was good, but maybe that's just cause I'm a big Johnny Cash fan. I think that Raging Bull is particularly good, especially as a sports biopic, which are often really cliched. I think because it differs vastly from the normal progression, as well as the incredible performances and direction, puts it over the top. I also think Walk the Line was good, but maybe that's just cause I'm a big Johnny Cash fan.

]]> By: Cole_Abaius http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-good-and-bad-biopics-lpalm.php/comment-page-1#comment-149989 Cole_Abaius Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:17:09 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/?p=56844#comment-149989 I think the best idea you have in this piece is your last suggestion to lose the destiny crap. There's a tendency, especially in a fame-obsessed society, to see notoriety as a divine will. As something that will eventually just happen to a person if they want it hard enough. Showing a famous figure's hard work and rise through the chaff is far more fascinating.<br><br>Amelia doesn't really have a destiny element, but it also doesn't really have an interesting moment in its run time. It juggles between flight (without really showing the impact that flying has beyond getting her endorsement deals) and a romance that has no spark and is marred by really uninteresting infidelity. I think the best idea you have in this piece is your last suggestion to lose the destiny crap. There's a tendency, especially in a fame-obsessed society, to see notoriety as a divine will. As something that will eventually just happen to a person if they want it hard enough. Showing a famous figure's hard work and rise through the chaff is far more fascinating.

Amelia doesn't really have a destiny element, but it also doesn't really have an interesting moment in its run time. It juggles between flight (without really showing the impact that flying has beyond getting her endorsement deals) and a romance that has no spark and is marred by really uninteresting infidelity.

]]> By: Peter Donohue http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-good-and-bad-biopics-lpalm.php/comment-page-1#comment-149976 Peter Donohue Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:27:05 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/?p=56844#comment-149976 I think that Raging Bull is particularly good, especially as a sports biopic, which are often really cliched. I think because it differs vastly from the normal progression, as well as the incredible performances and direction, puts it over the top. I also think Walk the Line was good, but maybe that's just cause I'm a big Johnny Cash fan. I think that Raging Bull is particularly good, especially as a sports biopic, which are often really cliched. I think because it differs vastly from the normal progression, as well as the incredible performances and direction, puts it over the top. I also think Walk the Line was good, but maybe that's just cause I'm a big Johnny Cash fan.

]]> By: TaylorW86 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-good-and-bad-biopics-lpalm.php/comment-page-1#comment-149971 TaylorW86 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:11:09 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/?p=56844#comment-149971 I think that The Aviator is a great film; I also really liked Ali. I think that The Aviator is a great film; I also really liked Ali.

]]> By: Landon_Palmer http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/features/culture-warrior-good-and-bad-biopics-lpalm.php/comment-page-1#comment-149966 Landon_Palmer Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:17:31 +0000 http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/?p=56844#comment-149966 Self-correction: Bronson, Control, and Milk are obviously three movies, not four. I'm a film geek, I can't be expected to master addition! Yeesh Self-correction: Bronson, Control, and Milk are obviously three movies, not four. I'm a film geek, I can't be expected to master addition! Yeesh

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