Imperfect movies: example Dogma 95 – The Idiots and other perfect imperfections. Are planned imperfect movies still imperfect?
Rankings and Top 100's of the best movies of all time are very popular. Many sites on the internet offer statistics and numbers about box office takings and cinema attendance. But not only numbers are important. Besides questions of taste, there are a few characteristics for a successful movie. Costumes, camera handling, scenery and acting are just a few of this characteristics. Classical Hollywood movies have a question and answer logic, problem solving routines and deadline plot structures as well as a tight seamless editing1.
Gone with the wind can be used as an example for the perfect big screen entertainment. …show more content…
The strict rules of Dogma 95 were written down in 1995 by danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. One of the rules is that the director is not to be mentioned. The model Dogma film is The idiots. This film gains the special cinematographic value from the imperfections occurring. With amateur actors, improvised scripts, shakily shot scenes and blurry pictures the film looks like a cheap documentary. Producer and documentary maker Sophie Fiennes talked to Lars von Trier in her 10 minute documentation Lars from 1- 10 about the rules of the Dogma 95 movement. Lars mentions that the purpose of the rules is “for giving away control”. The “basic feeling of film” should return. His aim is not to make a perfect movie everyone will like: “If people don't like it...I couldn't care …show more content…
The actors where supposed to act on their own behalf because they did not get very clear instructions, neither did the cameraman. The camera should react on instinct and not be prepared to the very next move of the protagonist. The movie did not follow the Dogma 95 rules, but still was imperfect in many ways. Without following the strict rules von Trier had much more freedom to make the movie to his own vision of imperfection. With positive ratings from imdb6, rottentomatoes7 and metacritic8 Melancholia was very well received. All this imperfections are carefully directed by Lars von Trier. He is a famous filmmaker nowadays and made many successful movies. From the range of his movies it can be seen that he has his own particular style. He follows that style which show that also his imperfect movies are not just random. Von Trier plans his imperfections, they are part of the success of his movies. Are this imperfections still imperfections? They are planned and desired. Can a mistake still be seen as a mistake when it is part of the whole piece of art?Are desired mistakes and imperfections in movies still imperfections and
Rankings and Top 100's of the best movies of all time are very popular. Many sites on the internet offer statistics and numbers about box office takings and cinema attendance. But not only numbers are important. Besides questions of taste, there are a few characteristics for a successful movie. Costumes, camera handling, scenery and acting are just a few of this characteristics. Classical Hollywood movies have a question and answer logic, problem solving routines and deadline plot structures as well as a tight seamless editing1.
Gone with the wind can be used as an example for the perfect big screen entertainment. …show more content…
The strict rules of Dogma 95 were written down in 1995 by danish filmmakers Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. One of the rules is that the director is not to be mentioned. The model Dogma film is The idiots. This film gains the special cinematographic value from the imperfections occurring. With amateur actors, improvised scripts, shakily shot scenes and blurry pictures the film looks like a cheap documentary. Producer and documentary maker Sophie Fiennes talked to Lars von Trier in her 10 minute documentation Lars from 1- 10 about the rules of the Dogma 95 movement. Lars mentions that the purpose of the rules is “for giving away control”. The “basic feeling of film” should return. His aim is not to make a perfect movie everyone will like: “If people don't like it...I couldn't care …show more content…
The actors where supposed to act on their own behalf because they did not get very clear instructions, neither did the cameraman. The camera should react on instinct and not be prepared to the very next move of the protagonist. The movie did not follow the Dogma 95 rules, but still was imperfect in many ways. Without following the strict rules von Trier had much more freedom to make the movie to his own vision of imperfection. With positive ratings from imdb6, rottentomatoes7 and metacritic8 Melancholia was very well received. All this imperfections are carefully directed by Lars von Trier. He is a famous filmmaker nowadays and made many successful movies. From the range of his movies it can be seen that he has his own particular style. He follows that style which show that also his imperfect movies are not just random. Von Trier plans his imperfections, they are part of the success of his movies. Are this imperfections still imperfections? They are planned and desired. Can a mistake still be seen as a mistake when it is part of the whole piece of art?Are desired mistakes and imperfections in movies still imperfections and