movies Archives - Smoke Words Every Day

[277] Understanding Your Silence

December 16, 2019December 16, 2019by Rahul Gaur4 Comments

In the city of depression that sells distraction in the night I catch you staring at the ceiling of a club to disguise the mood you found yourself in tonight The music blares above my crackled call for attention A faint breaking voice breaks through the cacophony You look like you’ve heard the sound of [...]

Cinema, writing

[119] Wake Up – My Micro Short Film

January 12, 2018by Rahul Gaur47 Comments

Hey fellow WordPress bloggers, I've been here for a year and found the best of people here. You guys have helped me gain self-confidence through your comments and feedback on my writing. Having this community has been the highlights of 2017. Other than a writer, I am a filmmaker and I have made this 3-minute-film [...]

Write-ups

[74] Rambling About A Change.

September 8, 2017by Rahul Gaur5 Comments

The urge to write has never been there in me. I looked at writing regularly as something that every writer has to do to reach a level where they are fooled into believing that what they write is decent. Today, I feel an urge to write. It's quite a new experience given my love-hate relationship [...]

poetry, Reflections, Write-ups

[68] We All Suffer From Hope

August 26, 2017August 27, 2017by Rahul Gaur6 Comments

We all suffer from hope. A hope for a universal desire to be loved. To be loved for who we are is what we look for in a relation, be it friendship or romantic. But no one can love you for all that you are. So you build up a facade of who they want [...]

Questions, Reflections

[64] Am I excited to be doing what I’m doing or am I in aimless motion?

August 22, 2017by Rahul Gaur2 Comments

Enthusiasm and eagerness are the emotions that a person goes through whilst feeling excited. And feeling excited about the field that you're going to dedicate your whole life to is a must. Do I feel excited towards filmmaking right now? or am I in aimless motion? To answer the first half I can say that [...]

Cinema

[59] Why creating a mood is important.

August 4, 2017August 4, 2017by Rahul Gaur2 Comments

A mood stays in the background. It is like the ambience to what holds your attention. Without the creation of which your spotlight lit art will not evoke the desired response. The dictionary defines "mood" to be "the atmosphere or pervading tone of something". Think about the movies that have stayed with you. Now focus on [...]

The Godfather

[45] The Godfather Notebook – Prologue to The Bible for Filmmakers

May 6, 2017May 6, 2017by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

[...] I thought that if I could first work on the story on a set of blueprints - a plan - I would then be able to sleep at night. I would feel that at least I would be taking a step forward, that doing it this way would help me get a handle on [...]

Cinema

[23] Moonlight

February 22, 2017February 22, 2017by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

A picture described by naysayers as a slow and a critically hyped movie. Yes, it features scenes with silence and a character that speaks rarely but what is the criticism more pointed at? The movie creates an atmosphere with its slow burning poison of storytelling with time-jumps that leave an audience to imagine the characters [...]

Cinema

[22] In The Mood For Love

February 19, 2017by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

As the musical piece titled "Yumeji's theme" invades the sound space of the visuals of Wong Kar Wai's "In The Mood For Love" everything slows down as if we are watching a music video inside a movie. The re-appearance of this musical piece (a striking eight times) is a leitmotif to describe the relationship between Chow [...]

Questions, Reflections

[20] Questions Series: What Gives Me Energy?

February 18, 2017by Rahul GaurLeave a Comment

The adrenaline in my body starts to pump up all the wiring in my brain when I watch a moment in a movie that just makes me jump out in joy. A good movie is like an instant energizer for me no matter how low on energy I am