So I had an understanding cinema lecture today in college. Every saturday I have...uff!!! Now I can give you a long list of better things to do on a chilled out sat afternoon but I was stuck with a silent movie which released in 1924...wtf!! my parents were also not born then...I guess whether their parents were :P. Most of the time during the movie I felt my eyelids drooping...but I still didnt give up. But when we started discussing the film it was like suddenly I regained a lot of consciousness...well the credit can be given to a nice hot coffee as well...but I found it really interesting to know how people in the early 20th century thought.
Our prof. is doing Eisenstein now and he thinks that he is one of the greatest film makers. However I disagree. I cant tell this in class coz I fear being thrown out or worst being declared insane. In my opinion cinema is for social upliftment as well as entertainment. I find it a waste of resources to make a film on something which happened almost a century ago and causes no upliftment. It just shows brutality and abuse of proliterate by the lords. In all historical movies are boring and of no use. In order to make people know about what atrocities happened in the past, you always have history books for the purpose.
For the time being cheers.....coz we dont watch a movie for story but to understand how its editing is done n how its shot. So I shouldnt actually be nagging about story n values of cinema.
Oh btw I am going to watch newyork tommorrow which I guess will be entertaining...huh!! I love Bollywood.
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