People go to movies. Some for entertainment , some for chewing and puking pop corns, some with ulterior motives, some to get pass of the official prissiness. What is the reason it takes you to the movie hall? Well, that’s not the intension of the post, well related.
People nowadays write posts, status quotes in social networking sites and in personal blogs about the movie which acts as mass marketing thanks to the fact called word of mouth. I believe the majority of movie goers depend on outcome of the movie in these social networking sites before deciding to watch the movie and plus we have critics for each and every primetime news channels who rates the movie.
When analyzing these facts, and a vivid movie goer who watches movies not for entertainment but for passion of this medium, looking the making as an art, I would like to portray some facts.
Movies win or lose mainly because of its screenplay. Differentiating screenplay of movies having effect on its success can be attributed to simple fact that whether the common median man is able to understand the screenplay or whether majority of people puke on the screenplay for its repetitiveness and boredom. Maniratnam can be awarded for these above mentioned theories with Dil se and example of former and Raavan being example of latter.
Commercialization of cinema to accompany a tag of Indian-ness pushing songs and dance into it is also a bane. But this is boon if rightly used. It’s a double edge of sword and act of filmmaking is powerful and fate lies in its craftsman.
The acquaintance about film making is great and ‘aam junta’ has started talking about screenplay, editing, shot composition, camera angle and other finer aspects of movie making. With composting and preprocessing , story board writing has been digitalized and amount of time and money invested in post-production of a movie has been equaled in script detailing. This gives avid scope of any director or screenplay writer to channelize his vision.
I could see many passionate movie makers fail to capitalize on the nice plot they have due to poor screenplay.
“When you watch any shooting, you will hear director saying Start, Action, Take. Whenever a shoot of a scene starts director will say as ?Action? and this has a hidden meaning. A movie needs action and not mere words as dialogues. No director will say as Start, Speak, Take. Some mega serial directors may say like that but cinema needs action”. -- words of Sujatha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujatha_Rangarajan
“When you watch any shooting, you will hear director saying Start, Action, Take. Whenever a shoot of a scene starts director will say as ?Action? and this has a hidden meaning. A movie needs action and not mere words as dialogues. No director will say as Start, Speak, Take. Some mega serial directors may say like that but cinema needs action”. -- words of Sujatha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujatha_Rangarajan
This also raises one more question which is fathomably true. What is a difference between a director and a screenplay writer. Director makes a reality out of story-play written on the paper.
If this is true as who we are, the importance of any movies’ success should be of screenplay writer and not the director. I could see that in Hollywood flicks, and not in Indian movies is it because we have all in one mechanism. All in one mechanism of story screenplay dialogue direction by one person. Why there is no scope of specialization here?
Only by appreciating good movies you will get to see more good movies my friends.
