“Like the ancients, we experience far more than we understand”
…we denizens of the third millennium ce make constant recourse to specialists whose art has no basis in empirical discovery or other Enlightenment values. […]
Tag: Movies
Considering vertical vs horizontal perspectives
Before 1930, moving picture aspect ratios were all over the place. But mass distribution requires standardization, so influential filmmakers met in Hollywood […]
“Back before Buffy and Katniss, Besson was one of the only directors championing stories with women as action leads”
Back before Buffy and Katniss, Besson was one of the only directors championing stories with women as action leads. He’s a little […]
Disney “usually does not return to classic characters in a willy-nilly manner”
Hollywood loves to revisit hits in ways that can be maddening — oh, that old script was wonderful; we’ll change everything — […]
“…George Lucas crafted a saga that is endlessly fascinating and worthy of repeated viewings”
Star Wars has always been about the unknown and the unknowable, the instinct to seek answers where none might exist and the […]
“Star Wars intentionally challenged an audience who had no idea what they were getting themselves into”
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Star Wars used to just be one movie. Before the novels, the comic strips, the video […]
“For A New Hope, the crew scavenged interesting- looking spare parts from model kits and junkyards to make the ships and vehicles”
For A New Hope, the crew scavenged interesting-looking spare parts from model kits and junkyards to make the ships and vehicles. Tomkins […]
“At the moment that our foundational religious stories began to echo too distantly in the past, a new storytelling rose to supplement what time threatened to take from us”
Hollywood is not only a fun factory of vapid entertainment. At times, Hollywood plays an important role. The role of the ancient […]
“A sequel like last May’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ from Marvel, is less a self-contained film than a loose amalgam of ongoing stories”
A sequel like last May’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” from Marvel, is less a self-contained film than a loose amalgam of ongoing […]
“Disney owns the three biggest storytelling platforms in the world. … They push our wonder buttons, but like all good stories, they are also fountains of potential interpretation”
Disney owns the three biggest storytelling platforms in the world. They own Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar. To me, that’s like owning […]
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