The more I hear about other people's film class experiences, the luckier I feel to have found a film prof who'd not only very intelligent, but not pretentious about her opinions. She liked Avatar, and thought it was a very innovative film and well-directed, but doesn't hesitate to admit that the plot was nothing groundbreaking at all. In fact that's something I love about her-- she understands the difference between a favorite movie and a "good" movie, and that there are usually good things to be found in any film, as well as problematic or cliche things as well. She totally understands guilty pleasures, and really and truly gets that people's tastes are different and that art is a subjective topic. I've never met anyone who is so open to new ideas and opinions and who will try to understand someone else's viewpoint, even if she doesn't agree with it. I've found this utterly invaluable in terms of learning how to view film. I very often forget how spoiled I am in this respect. Good luck, man. Film people aren't all stuck up asses, I swear.
I think that I just have bad luck when it comes to people involved in the fields of study relating to the arts. Like the reason I will never do anything close to theater studies is because I had this class back in 2004 where the first week, we all had to lie down on the stage's floor in a row and the person on the end would roll over everyone else.
It has been 6 years and I STILL have not figured out the point of it outside of maybe some misguided attempt to break the ice and get used to awkward situations. And let me tell you, nothing breaks the ice in such an awkward fashion like elbows going into places that elbows should not really go into unless you are in danger. And there was some very large people that did not help matters.
Then there was more exercises where I proceeded to find and use loopholes that didn't go so well and by the time I noticed I was failing the class, I just dropped it and never looked back. And that's how my crazy dreamed of being an actor ended.
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It has been 6 years and I STILL have not figured out the point of it outside of maybe some misguided attempt to break the ice and get used to awkward situations. And let me tell you, nothing breaks the ice in such an awkward fashion like elbows going into places that elbows should not really go into unless you are in danger. And there was some very large people that did not help matters.
Then there was more exercises where I proceeded to find and use loopholes that didn't go so well and by the time I noticed I was failing the class, I just dropped it and never looked back. And that's how my crazy dreamed of being an actor ended.
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