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Question for wanna be film makers and writers.

post #1 of 18
4/8/05 at 11:09am
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What movie or movies inspired you into wanting to get into the business?

For me its .....


Rocky

True romance

Basic instinct

Sin City
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post #2 of 18
4/8/05 at 11:19am
Star Wars
Aliens
King Kong
Jaws
Apocalypse Now
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post #3 of 18
4/8/05 at 11:24am
For me it was 100% Clerks. I've loved a lot of movies both before and after Clerks, but it was Kevin Smith who made me realize that it was actually possible to get a movie made without knocking on doors in Hollywood. I didn't even know what film festivals were back then
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post #4 of 18
4/8/05 at 12:33pm
wow, sin city pretty quick on the list, i can't wait to see that movie.

well, for me, it's not directing or writing. It's the special effects and art direction...


Star Wars
Aliens
Jurassic Park
Dark City


But mostly I blame Star Wars! haha
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post #5 of 18
4/8/05 at 1:34pm
I had the Disney Channel when I was 4 or 5 (back before they had commercial interruptions), so I grew up on a steady diet of classic cartoons and animated features. My favorites were "Pinnochio," "Alice in Wonderland" and "Sword and the Stone." Those piqued my interest in art, fantasy and storytelling.
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post #6 of 18
4/8/05 at 1:40pm
Wonder Boys really pushed me over the brim.
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post #7 of 18
4/8/05 at 2:07pm
Captain Blood
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back
The Return Of The Jedi
The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Jurassic Park
Hook
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post #8 of 18
4/8/05 at 2:48pm
Star Wars. The Empire Strikes Back. Star Wars. Star Wars. The Empire Strikes Back. Star Wars. Freddy Got Fingered.

Honestly. I liked Blade II also.
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post #9 of 18
4/8/05 at 3:19pm
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
The Deer Hunter
Taxi Driver
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post #10 of 18
4/8/05 at 3:27pm
While i LOVE the star wars films they never had an impact on me to want to go out and make a film and join the film industry. strange but true.
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post #11 of 18
4/8/05 at 5:31pm
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Originally Posted by ash88
While i LOVE the star wars films they never had an impact on me to want to go out and make a film and join the film industry. strange but true.
I agree. I got into "Star Wars" much later than most geeks, so my passion for becoming a filmmaker was already full-steam ahead.
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post #12 of 18
4/8/05 at 6:56pm
Two films

Excalibur

and The Thin Red Line.

Really it was TRL that pushed me over the edge. Before that I was deeply involved in theater and probably would still be exclusively involved in stage if Malick hadn't opened my eyes.
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post #13 of 18
4/8/05 at 9:28pm
Close Encounters of the Third Kind

I'd love to put other movies on the list, but that was the one that made me think "I want to do this". Everything else has been icing on the cake.
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post #14 of 18
4/8/05 at 10:26pm
These are the films that particularly impacted me and continue to make me want to persue storytelling in some visual form.

Star Wars
Wizard of Oz
Forbidden Planet
City of Lost Children
Eraserhead
Wings of Desire
Laputa: Castle in the Sky
Evil Dead II
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post #15 of 18
4/8/05 at 11:34pm
Mainly:
Batman (as soon as I saw this, at a young and impressionable age, I decided to be a filmmaker and I never wavered...the other films either heavily inspired me or further bolstered my dreams)
Evil Dead
Memento
Reservoir Dogs
Desperado
LOTR trilogy

Of course, there are plenty of other films (like Star Wars, the Indiana Jones trilogy, Aliens, and on and on...) that are amazing, and have reminded me why I love movies. There's no way I could sit here and list them all.
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post #16 of 18
4/9/05 at 2:50am
for me it was any movie I saw-- afterwards, when I stepped back out into the real world. that and riding in cars. most of the types of films I aspire to make I've seen after I decided that's what I wanted to do.
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post #17 of 18
4/9/05 at 4:52am
I think seeing Clerks in fourth or fifth grade made me say, Wow, I fucking love movies already, but that just convinced me that I could actually make one myself. Same applies to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Westerns seem rather accessible when you live in the West.

Recently, I've been on a foreign classics kick and movies like Breathless and Rashomon and Jules et Jim just inspire me more and more.
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post #18 of 18
4/9/05 at 10:39am
I forgot Evil Dead 2! Man, that film is brilliant.

I've never seen Clerks...shame on me.
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