I found the film Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the ring to
be a most moving piece of film. The formal elements of the film are likely the
cause for the reaction, as the camera work itself portrayed a sense of “epic”
often using shots for a great distance to portray the landscape around the
characters before zooming into them. The story itself is also a moving
experience as it portrays a simple hobbit that eventually comes to save the
world he didn’t even understand at the start of the film.
I
generally like to trend back and forth between science fiction and really
historical fiction, but I’ll merely focus on the science fiction part. With
science fiction I feel it is largely a mix of formal and cultural elements that
influence me, as by in large I like to believe that I watch science fiction as
a means to look forward, a means for new ideas or current idea’s taken into a
new form. This largely appeals to the scientist nature of me as I desire to see
innovation and progress rather than looking towards things set in more modern
times. An example would like something like Batman Begins, or Inception, or
even something like Star wars (the original not to be confused with the new
films) where they either bring in new ideas prompting the “what if” question
(hyperspace in star wars) or something that very likely isn’t that far out of
our reach (many of batman’s gadgets) as a means to show technological progress.
Cheers
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