Saturday, March 21, 2015

Best Picture Challenge

Like I said in the last post I would tell you the challenge that I am going to do in this post.

The challenge is the Best Picture Challenge!!!

When I was watching the 87th Annual Academy Awards last month I got really inspired. Especially when Birdman won best picture. I really wanted to see Birdman, not because of the plot line or the actors, but because of the way it was filmed. For those of you who don't know Birdman was filmed in one continuous shot, so the camera never cuts away at any point in the film.

Which I wanted to see because I wanted to compare movies. See, the only other movie that I know of that does this same filming technique is the 1948 Alfred Hitchcock movie called Rope. It was an extremely captivating movie, and memorable because of the way it was filmed. When I was thinking about comparing the two movies I stated to think how different the subject matter would be handled just because of the time periods they were filmed in. It would be really interesting to see the evolution of filming, actors, character development, and content.

Then it hit me....

Why not see the evolution of pictures overtime by watching the best of the best?

It was then, while watching Neil Patrick Harris show his predictions to the world of what would happen at the Oscars, that I decided I would watch every single one of all the 87 Best Pictures in order and literally watch that evolution unfold.

I will also write a post about every movie with a plot summary, with no spoilers because how rude would that be, what I thought was most significant about the filming, and any other fun facts or funny quotes I liked.

What my goal is after all of this is to be way more educated about movies, and how maybe social convention, or anything really, shaped how the film was made.

Even though I will be doing this for my Best Picture Challenge I will also still right about everyday life how I see it, and also about any movie I see in between.  

Anyways I do need to get off the blog now cause I am at work and really shouldn't be on here.

Happy Viewing!

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