Tag: movies
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[19] Legion And Surrealism.
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In an age of information overload, the technological advances of our generation have given us many perks too. One of them being the option of pausing the video you are watching on your laptop. Rarely has it ever crossed my mind, to pause a TV show or a movie and appreciate what just happened. The…
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[18] Diversity in Thought
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I arrived at the gate of my new prison (read: college) and scoured the area for familiar faces (read: friendly faces). All I saw was an accumulation unto my conservative outlook of the world. People smoking, hurling abuses, holding hands and what not. It was the opposite of what I was taught to be. The…
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[17] Thoughts on “Arrival”
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A spoiler-free general review of Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” A slow start marked a heart-wrenching ride of the year. I checked the time elapsed and it was 25 minutes, feeling that the director could have cut the scenes faster or remove certain parts. Boy, I was wrong. What he was doing was giving us viewers a slow poison…
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[13] The Balancing Act
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One thing I’ve learned directing my second short film is that management of the crew, actors and the DOP is essential for creating life on screen as desired by you. I’ve only looked at directing from a skewed perspective of it being a creative desire to infuse life into 24 frames a second. Never have I…
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[12] Suspension of Belief
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Everything depends on the preparation…. or does it? I am in the process of making a short film and have completed the principal photography and I will soon start the post-production of the same. I wanted to talk about the problems I faced during the shoot and how control is just an illusion in film-making.…
Smoke words every day. 