Filmmakers love gravity. Filmmakers love heights. Filmmakers love fear. The list goes on. Is it any wonder we’ve fallen in love with the fall? Take the leap. See how it is done. Determine how you will do it differently.
Gravity: A Falling Montage from Plot Point Productions on Vimeo.
Context, and the lack there of, exposes a great deal. In a world of abundance, the common mind is revealed. We all receive the same inputs, it is surprising we don’t have more of the same outputs.
Take a look at this montage of final shots and decide if our common usage has removed or added new meaning to our common crutches. Granted, out of context is something entirely different from the closure such shots may bring at the end of an emotional ride. Still there is something to be learned from how we do things — not that I know what that is yet, but…
If there are only six good stories — or is it twelve? twenty-three? forty-two? — how many good lines are there? Clearly Aaron Sorkin thinks there is a limited supply. Write something good once, might as well write it again, right?
It’s been out and around for awhile but I still find “Sorkinisms — A Supercut” kind of remarkable.
