October 28, 2004
Film
A motion picture designed as art. A Film usually has a message, or reveals a truth about the human condition, or expresses a quintessential emotion, or any one of the bullshit things art is usually described as doing. People in Hollywood hate to admit they're basically making movies. They much prefer to believe that they are making films. As a rule anybody with a beach house isn't making films.
That said, very few motion pictures aren't intended as a film to at least somebody. Most of the crew (that is, people with real jobs) enjoy making movies and are proud to do it. Directors and actors tend to be more obsessed with the idea of art. Thus to a certain extent every motion picture can be a film. The caveat is that motion pictures have trouble being movies and films at the same time. There are a lot of good movies that are bad films. Die Hard made a bundle but its 'message' if any failed to have much impact. On the other side of the coin are movies like... Alright, I can't think of any specific examples, but these are the movies that pop in and out of art house theatres every few minutes. Much rarer and more exciting are those movies that really are good films. The Spiderman movies, Citizen Cane, Whale Rider.
Posted by DjDuk at October 28, 2004 07:19 PM
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