There are two kinds of directors: one who considers the public and one who consider themselves.
Based on the documentary that we have watched, name the directors who consider the public and the directors who consider themselves. And explain the effects of their movies to the industry and to the art of cinema.
Directors: Francis Coppola, George Lucas, Martian Scorsese, Brian de Palma and Steven Spielberg.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLLA
Studied film at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA Film School) where his focus in doing film is more of a personal or considering himself. His dream is to run his own studio wherein he own the lights, the cameras, the sounds, the equipments needed in order to establish or make a film and do the works like directing, editing, writing cross-country journey script as stated on the documentary. According to one of his actors he worked with, he wanted to influence people and as much as possible give them work or help them.
One of his works that had great impact on its audience and in the field of media is the “The Godfather”. The film changed Hollywood because it finally changed the way Italians were depicted on film. It made Italians seem like more fully realized people and not stereotypes. It was a film in Hollywood made by Italians about Italians. Previously, it had not been Italians making the mobster films featuring Italian gangsters.
I feel it helped Italianize American culture. I think it helped people see that in this depiction of Italian-Americans was a reflection of their own immigrant experience, whether they were Irish or Jews from Eastern Europe. They found that common ground.
GEORGE LUCAS
Studied film in University of Southern California (USC) and his heart in doing film have something to do with gearing people for the industry or for the public. According to the documentary, specifically from people he worked with such as the editor and producers, what he likes in doing film or movie is its non-linear stories, non-character driven scenario, futuristic, romance, escape, character development and documentary in dramatic context.
“THX 1138”, was one of his most controversial films made. While “Star Wars,” which is also a blockbuster hit clicked on the masses. Star Wars fundamentally changed the aesthetics and narratives of Hollywood movies, as well as changing the Hollywood film industry in other fundamental ways.
Star Wars started the tradition of the summer blockbuster movie in the entertainment industry, where movies open on many screens at the same time, and profitable franchises are tied in. It created the model for the major movie trilogy and showed that merchandising rights on a movie could generate more money than the movie itself did.
MARTIN SCORSESE
Studied film in New York University and it with Francis Ford Coppola, though different from schools attended, his way of managing film is in a way he could express himself, consider himself, or put himself on the situation or story. He often uses long tracking shots. Every move has choreography. Some of his films include references or allusions to Westerns. Slow motion flashbulbs and accented camera flash or shutter sounds. More recently, his films have featured corrupt authority figures, such as police officers.
He likes nostalgic pieces and does movies that would move himself like “Taxi Driver” and “New York, New York (film)”.
“Taxi Driver” is a hell, from the opening shot of a cab emerging from stygian clouds of steam to the climactic killing scene in which the camera finally looks straight down. Scorsese wanted to look away from Travis’s rejection; we almost want to look away from his life. However, he is there, all right, and he is suffering. For this reason, he designed the film’s sets and storyline to be deliberately artificial-looking. He acknowledges that it is an experiment. It did not please everyone.
BRIAN DE PALMA
He involves the audience or public in expressing things clearly in films. His films have strong scripts, characters following and learning from each other. De Palma’s films can fall into two categories, his psychological thriller. He has often produced “De Palma” films one after the other before going on to direct a different genre, but would always return to his familiar territory. Because of the subject matter and graphic violence of some of De Palma’s films, such as Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, Carlito’s Way, and Mission: Impossible, they are often at the center of controversy with the Motion Picture Association of America, film critics and the viewing public.
De Palma is known for quoting and referencing other director’s work throughout his career.
“The Untouchables” received positive reviews from film critics and has an 81% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Vincent Canby, of The New York Times, gave the film a positive review, calling it “a smashing work” and saying it was “vulgar, violent, funny and sometimes breathtakingly beautiful.”
Somehow, we’re put off here by the spectacular stuff he throws up onto the screen. De Palma’s storytelling instincts have given very completely to his interest in film as a visual medium. His only real concern is his own style. De Palma does not waste a shot. The result is a densely layered work moving with confident, compulsive energy.
STEVEN SPIELBERG
Studied film in University of Southern California School of Theater, Film and Television and makes movies that would move everybody or the public will interact. He has a middle-American point of view. And for him, television is a job. He is ideal and likes intense or breathtaking movies such as “duel” and the well-known, box office record and patronized, “Jaws”.
The film “Duel” received many positive reviews and is often considered among the greatest TV movies. On Rotten Tomatoes the film currently has a “Fresh” score of 86% (2010).
According to the American Film Institute, Jaws ranks among the fifty greatest movies of all time and the second- greatest thriller ever (Behind Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho). After three decades, the film continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. It’s become an entertainment mainstay, a timeless classic in a world of fad filmmaking.
Jaws were a thoroughly groundbreaking film in every way imaginable. It had a tremendous impact on the way movies are made, marketed and merchandised and spawned a pop cultural fascination with sharks. And, perhaps most notably, the film generated a visceral fear of swimming that continues to afflict multitudes to this day.
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