Added: 09/12/2006 |
MoviesAnyway cinematography has become a great industry nowadays. It's not only movies, it's also all those movie icons – actors and actresses who's private live we watch as a kind of movie series, it's the magazines, Web-sites that write about movies, critics who do it, it's all those movie reviews, it's all the movie advertising everywhere, it's cinemas and DVD and VHS-stores, it's all the Movie Associations all over the world, movie festivals, movie awards.
All this fuss isn't about art, but about entertainment of course. We follow all the evens of movie world as a show. We've learn to take our bearings in all this fuss and diversity of titles, names, genres, opinions.
All the movies can be roughly divided into groups. The first group is the mainstream, Hollywood production or Hollywood like movie production of other countries. These movies are totally entertainment, one shouldn't expect any clever ideas to be expressed in them, any new approach of moviemaking to be discovered. Mainstream cinematography uses the patterns that have proved themselves. Everything in those movies is very simple, clear, predictable and understandable. Watching a horror, a blockbuster or a movie of any other classical genre one can be sure what package of emotions he/she will get while watching and how the whole story is going to end. These are mass orientated movies. Movie critics and all those lovers of the good movies who think that if a movie is not an art than it has no right to bear the proud name of a movie despise all this mass orientated and brainwashing. They say that these mainstream movies keep us from reflecting other the existential problems and make life look much more simpler than it really is.
The other group of movies are movies not for everybody. These are art-house movies, European cinematography, independent movies that aren't produced by the studios of the cinema corporations.
These are movie with tiny budget and with the huge potential, awards winning movies. When you come to the cinema to watch such a movie you never know what you'll get. Usually many people can't even watch those movie to the end. They get embarrassed, say that they don't understand the director of that movie, that it's dull, meaningless, freaky and so on. That's their truth. The art-house cinematography is the one of the movie directors. Each their work contains a message addressed to the public but it's isn't coded in such a movie language that's understandable to everyone, it the language of art that is sometimes available to very few. Such a master is considered by those few who seem to understand him and his works to be almost a genius. Every new movie of his/her is an event.
Nobody has the right to judge which type of movies is good or bad, worth or not worth being watched. The question is only about watch you want to get from viewing movie. If you want a spectacular performance which won't bother you much with any sense – a high-budget blockbuster should be you choice. What wrong about this way of spending your leisure time? Nothing. You are free to relax and enjoy yourself.
But if you want to get a little bit intellectually higher, watch something that won't be a waste of time, gain a new vision of some life important questions, view something clever and talented, get in touch with the true art although this may cost you a head ache and a bad mood – an art-house, some cult or classical movie should be you choice.
One thing that's absolutely for sure good about modern cinematography is that is offers you a great field for choosing where everyone will be able to find what's best for him/her.
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