Wednesday, July 17, 2013

The Wonderful World of Film

The beauty of cinema is that it is both objective and subjective. Objective in that it has a purpose: to entertain; to inform; to create an emotional response. Subjective in that where one person my find an incredible film, another may find it atrocious. Where one may see a masterpiece, another may see mediocrity.
 
Far too long have I been stuck in a rut of only catering to my specific tastes, not allowing myself to be ensnared by the vast history of cinema. Yet, I seek to enjoy film, to love it. That is why I seek to immerse myself in the history of cinema: to see what others have hailed; soak in what they have created. But it doesn’t end there. It can’t. As much as I would love to, I cannot create film. But I can write about it.

Welcome to my experiment. The Wonderful World of Film is a chronicle of my experience. While I wish to view all these films, I obviously cannot review every film ever made. That would be downright foolish. Instead, I will take the winners of the Academy Awards for that year for Best Film and Screenplay. I will give a synopsis and go into what I liked and what didn't I like.
As it stands, my top ten favorite films are as follows:

1.      Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
2.      The Avengers
3.      Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
4.      Tangled
5.      Lord of the Rings Trilogy
6.      A New Hope
7.      The Lion King
8.      Return of the Jedi
9.      Batman (1989)
10.  Raiders of the Lost Ark


Maybe after all of this, my list will have changed. This shall be a lifetime of film. And I look forward to every minute of it. 

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