There is this guy who is born with a different kind of vision.. his eyes reverse the color of red and blue... he sees a red sky and a blue apple... but then since he is born with such a vision, he thinks that is how the sky looks like and how an apple looks like....
he goes to school and the teacher tells him - an apple is red and the sky is blue... but he sees the apple in blue and the sky in red... so he thinks that the color of the apple which he sees is red and the color of the sky as he sees it is blue.
no one ever knows that he sees these two colors quite opposite to what the others see since he refers to the color of the apple as he sees as red only though in his mind he equates "our (general population)" color blue to "red".
so the question is 'how would anyone ever know that our blue is his red and our red is his blue?
this has greater implications - what we think is purely what we have learnt about using our own intellect and understanding.. it is impossible for anyone to know how you think of something....
or maybe you are not getting my point here....
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I went to a tea stall in a remote village and asked the tea wala (age about 30 yrs) in lungi - what kind of movies do you like, he quickly answered I like movies which are bit close to reality, realistic movies . He said he doesn’t like movies which fools the audience, movies where one guy hits 100 and beautiful girls desperately running after an ugly looking guy (so called “hero”) …. He also said masses would like those kind of movies, but not him…. He doesn’t categorize himself under “masses”… so, if a tea wala in a remote village in India is not “masses”, why do these stupid film makers keep supporting their film making style that they do it for masses … (I would say mainly due to lack of brains)
ReplyDeleteThere is not even minimum guarantee for mass films, more %tage of mass films fail at box office than the experimental (or meaningful) films….
Here filmmaker’s view of masses is different and the view of masses themselves is different…so, here red is blue and blue is red according to each other and they live in these kind of stereotypes …
The same can be applied even for political parties… I posed a similar question to another brick layer (whom I thought of “masses”), which political party you would vote for? He said he would like to vote for Loksatta, but since masses don’t vote for that party (hence he thought it wouldn’t win anyway), he would go for Congress….
One of the main diseases, Telugu film industry is suffering from is with the fight masters... their unnatural and the use of ropes in fights is a torture to watch on the screens...
ReplyDeleteIf fights/stunts are there, they should be simple like in 'Shiva' or extreme like in 'Enter the dragon' or 'Police Story'
What say Neo?
steel balls, you are right in quite some ways.. for example sankarabharanam became a massive hit... good and experimental movies do run to full houses.. but then, look at the box office collections of the US box office.. experimental movies like the movies from Coen brothers or even quentin tarantino rake in a max of 100M dollars in about 6 weeks... but mass movies like 'pirates of the caribbean sequels or the spiderman sequels or the twillight series rake in anything around 300M to 500M.... same goes with the harry potter series.... if you see avatar vs inception, avatar is a mass movie compared to an experimental mind movie like inception.. but avatar broke all records.... so history keeps telling the film makers that there is a good chance of raking in enormous amounts of money on a blockbuster if it clicks than an experimental movie ieven if it clicks.. also with experimental movies, the success depends a lot on word of mouth publicity, whereas blockbusters pull in audience from the initial day itself... a magadheera will have housefulls right from day one whereas a 'aa naluguru' will have a housefull maybe on it's 25th day.....
ReplyDeleteRight, agree with your math on the openings created by successfully mass movies... but I was talking about the Un-successful mass movies which gets released every Friday with huge expectations and go un-noticed... the problem lies in everyone desperately wants to make a Magadheera & Avatar, very few want to make a meaningful film concentrating on the art of film making, rather than repeating the proven formula from the preceding successful movies...
ReplyDeleteA nice dialogue from Kamal Haasan from Sagarasangamam - "While dancing if your concentration is on the claps and applauses of the audience rather than the dance itself, how can you effectively perform the art of dancing..!?"
Due to piracy, millions of TV channels and what not … these days most of the collections are from the first week only, so to some extent good publicity & good hype is more important than a good movie … even if the movie is average the producers will over publicize it and pass it on as an excellent & terrific movie among the public… as they did with Pokiri or Magadheera for example… to me both are average movies…
RGV understood this very clearly and using his past to get away with stupid movies lately, but I honestly hope ‘Raktha Charitra’ will be a delight to watch.
Regarding INCEPTION ... Nolan should have some balls to take such a complex subject and film it so interesting and make the audience watch it more than once...
ReplyDeleteI'm going to watch it for the second time today..
4 levels of dreams ... oh my God.. how can he even dream of handling such a complex subject..
It's Nolan's imagination that made his story on "dreams" possible... though one can see things clearly in dreams than in imagination, it's only imagination that can bring the dreams come true..
i watched it the second time last night and i saw so many new things which i missed the first time.. for example, i understood the role of the forger... i also understood why Mal appeared suddenly out of nowhere and had access to that building in the snow and could kill Fisher....so many other things
ReplyDeletebtw, i think that most telugu movies are like school skits rather than serious cinema.....
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