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for grown ups only with paler stars and better fashion sense now this is the point of no return for me it s one thing to not like something but it s another to compare the french new wave movement with a vampire series aimed at teenagers for the dual purpose of appearing to be hip culturally speaking and gaining notoriety for making outlandish statements if she could possibly defend this statement i wouldn t have a problem with it but the fact that the author says it in the middle of a single paragraph for emphasis without adding any support makes her lose credibility if the indecision she is referring to is the jean seberg character s inability to decide whether or not to turn in her hoodlum boyfriend in breathless there is no logical way you can compare that to bella trying to decide between jacob and edward in twilight seberg s indecisiveness lasts 10 minutes if that of a 90 minute movie bella s is stretched out over two 2 hour films yeah real comparable as for self reflection i won t deny that truffaut and godard in particular had an affinity towards characters who liked to talk a lot and mostly about themselves i can see how this would be dull to non fans but these moments of reflection are rarely on the level of stupidity that bella and edward s endless prattling about their love for each other and their vampire problems are i don t deny that cahiers du cinéma directors were geniuses of a sort film critics who saw an overblown and worn out hollywood machine and decided to do something about it when it came out in 1960 à bout de souffle stuck two fingers up to the studios still trying to pump money into soulless epics such as cleopatra wrong again unlike a lot of critics the cahiers critics were huge supporters of the american film industry and of certain directors like hitchcock hawks and ray that many important american critics completely ignored no doubt they would have had problems with something as bloated as cleopatra but they saw mainstream french cinema as the big problem that needed fixing the problem is the characters michel with his obsession with humphrey bogart patricia with her pseudo intellectualism they always felt fatally underdeveloped pastiches of their predecessors and less exciting than successors such as bonnie and clyde to complain that the characters of the new wave films were underdeveloped is to completely miss the point of the movement in breathless godard wasn t particularly interested in exploring these characters they were mere figures to not only hang his ideas about love life and the movies on but also as a way to experiment with the stylization that eventually changed filmmaking if the characters had been developed there would have been no room for godard s manic jump cuts or to explore his obsession with the movies he would have spent the entire time trying to get to the bottom of these characters also did it ever occur to the author that maybe what we see in breathless is the extent of the depth of these characters both michel and patricia are soulless creatures children of marx and coca cola who have no depth beyond their silly lives i m not sure what the author was expecting but i doubt godard would have cared to show it in his movie the author then goes on to cite the schoolteacher in the 400 blows as another example of underdeveloped characters in new wave movies wow way to pick on a tertiary character and use it as a main point in your thesis how about picking on one of the main characters in that film oops wait you can t because between truffaut and the actors themselves antonie his mother and father are all well rounded and fully shaped characters both godard and truffaut were at one point on board to direct bonnie and clyde a film that undeniably owes their influence a great deal but had they done so would warren beatty and faye dunaway have spent time debating their lovelife instead of shooting up middle america arthur penn understood that american audiences could only take so much soul searching they were ready for action has the author seen bonnie and clyde recently i actually watched it again for the first time in years the other day and i was actually surprised at how little of the film revolves around guns and bank robberies sure the shootouts are probably the most famous sections of the film but a good portion of the film is devoted to exploring bonnie and clyde as romantic folk heroes they do spend a lot of time debating their lovelife whether it s in the form of clyde s impotence or bonnie s unhappiness being surrounded by buck blanche and c w 24 7 it may not be as hardcore as in any french new wave film but it exists and i resent the fact that the author suggests that bonnie and clyde is nothing more than a shoot em up action film those last two lines in particular ripe with irony and smugness really annoy me truffaut is the master of self indulgent film making in les 400 coups antoine the neglected child is undeniably cute but how can his audience ever forget that this is truffaut they are watching that it is truffaut again in jules et jim that it is always truffaut like tim burton today truffaut needed a good editor to tell him when his labour of love had become dull for everyone else again this is another matter of personal preference where one person sees self indulgent filmmaking another such as moi sees truffaut as a filmmaker with the self awareness to find a little bit of himself in every single project and the ability to make these projects an extension of himself as a human there s no doubt that truffaut had an overriding theme that pervades nearly every single film of his i call this thesis love at all costs but he never explored this the same way twice the antoine doinel films the story of adèle h mississippi mermaid the bride wore black and day for night all revolve around this theme yet you d be hard pressed to find another commonality between them and that last dig comparing truffaut to tim burton was unnecessary and another example of the author making comparisons just to be controversial even jules et jim which i m admittedly not a big fan of has a lot more merit as art than burton s silly but empty versions of charlie and the chocolate factory and sweeney todd i could probably go on and on ranting about this dumbass article but i suppose i ve made my point clear enough like i said in the beginning i m all for people have differing opinions from my own and i truly believe that not every film classic is for everyone but when you re trying to write a thought piece on an entire film movement it s best to use more than a couple examples to prove your point based on this article my guess is the author has only seen breathless the 400 blows and jules et jim and decided that that was enough to make an all encompassing opinion about the movement this would be the same as me writing something positive or negative about the german new wave of the 70 s having only seen a couple fassbinder movies not everyone has to be in love with the french new wave but your negative opinions at least need be i don t know intelligent and supported posted by dame james at 2 19 pm 1 comment labels françois truffaut french new wave jean luc godard twilight movie vive la france friday august 13 2010 vma video of the year rundown 2010 it s that time of the year again as i did in 2008 and 2009 the moment has arrived to discuss this year s nominees for video of the year at the video music awards but before we begin i have to make an announcement for a couple years now i ve been trying to make this a regular series investigating all of the nominees for video of the year in each year i got a couple done before hitting a rough spot and never actually completing the series i vowed last year to get the series started but again nothing i ve now come to the realization that it will never be finished and it s time to move on to a new project best female video the reason i could never finish another entry is because the nominated videos often sucked all inspiration out of me how could i spend 300 words writing about a video that was neither horrible or amazing and what about in years where all five nominees are like that zzzzzzzz but when i started looking around at the best female video category i realized that there was no way i could ever get bored by the nominees i mean look at them who wants to discuss videos from queensryche usa for africa u2 or steve winwood when i can be discussing madonna janet cher beyoncé paula kate and annie i will continue this annual tradition in the coming years but i won t be looking back at any past video of the year lineups sorry to the two people who may actually remember me doing this but i guarantee the best female video series will be even better overall 2009 was all about the star factor with five of the biggest names in music competing for the big prize this year we see two repeats but overall the nominees are a return to the early days of the category when the biggest stars weren t necessarily getting the big nomination lady gaga with two of the most talked about music videos in ages and eminem the vma s prodigal son both got in rather expectedly but the surprise nominees came at the hands of a british act just getting started in america and former actor jared leto s rock band sometimes digging up unexpected videos can be good for the category but this year quite the opposite happened when telephone a video i ve complained about all year for being a short film in music video clothing is still the second best in the category you know there s a problem florence and mars are trying hard to be different and metaphorical respectively about what i have no fucking clue yet nothing comes through eminem once again gets in with another lazy retread of his past videos and the less said about the b o b video the better thank goodness for gaga then who manages to save this lineup from obscurity with romance the video they ll remember her for in the coming years with so many uninspiring nominees you have to wonder how rhianna s rude boy easily the most talked about non gaga music video not only missed out here but in nearly every damn category minus a technical one and although i think the video s not very good the black eyed peas massive imma be rocking that body was completely shafted in every category a surprise given how many of the nominated videos this year bad romance telephone kings and queens video phone have massive runtimes and if we lived in a perfect world the year s double nominee would be danish pop group alphabeat and not gaga dj i could be dancing and hole in my heart both took obvious 90 s inspirations and twisted them for this decade the best lady gaga bad romance just before gaga became the queen of the entire world and everything she did was deemed other worldly she came out with her clip for bad romance and proved that she was more than just a passing phase poker face showed promise even if it wasn t a very good video and paparazzi reintroduced the epic music video but bad romance capitalized on her newly minted success and trumped every expectation people had of her five minutes may seem like a long time for a music video but when you have as much going on as gaga does here it goes by far too quickly but that s what is special about bad romance she manages to tell a complete story visually without once stopping the music for a dialogue interlude the opening birth scene where gaga and her dancers emerge from the metaphorical womb clawing and scratching their way out in spandex catsuits is astounding to look at it s the perfect way to visualize the gaga character s emergence into this world of prostitution and to let the audience know what to expect from the rest of the video and never does bad romance ever feel like anything but a lady gaga video there s no homage to madonna or tarantino and you can hardly imagine britney rihanna or beyoncé doing this video with the same amount of impact bad romance is a textbook example of using the music video to move a pop persona forward and the fact that she does this with a fair amount of depth and beauty is all the more satisfying the rest in order lady gaga featuring beyoncé telephone and now we come to certainly the biggest video of the year in terms of impact hype feeling and overall length the premiere was an event in itself the first time i remember that happening since the good ole days of trl when the backstreet boys would stop by to premiere their latest shitty video i liked the video at first and still am generally a fan of it but the flaws are even more glaringly obvious than they were six months ago my biggest complaint about telephone is that it never quite feels like a music video sure it s a video with music in it but the song eventually comes second to all of the insanity going on around it i ve said it before and i ll say it again telephone works as a short film but as a music video it s an epic fail music videos should promote the song but can you honestly say you remember the song amid the numerous wardrobe choices the prison yard make out session b s honey bun and the let s make a sandwich bit what i do love about the video though is the way gaga and b synthesize their own larger than life batshit crazy personas with their homage to all things tarantino the video is complete and utter insanity but when it works it really works at highlighting what we love best about gaga and b telephone is hardly perfect yet something about it s madness is worth celebrating florence the machine dog days are over i will say this for florence the machine she certainly knows how to make a vivid impression when you see her onscreen red hair a blazin with that kabuki inspired makeup over her eyes you immediately marvel over this fascinating creature and really want to get to know her better the dog days are over video is certainly the very definition of weird but it often feels weird for weird sake rather than weird for a purpose the only way i can describe what i mean is to use another example last year s nominee love lockdown by kanye west the bulk of the video comprises of these natives flinging arrows and tribal dancing to the song what saves it from dog days are over territory however is the fact that the opening and closing moments show kanye west obviously in some kind of emotional distress so it can be inferred that these natives are representative of him going insane i m not suggesting that dog days are over needs a gimmick like love lockdown but rather any idea of when to pull back the weirdness and figure out what they are trying to say the video doesn t need to make a groundbreaking point it just needs to say something besides oh look at these blue people dancing 30 seconds to mars kings and queens maybe i m completely missing the point but what exactly is supposed to be happening in this video i see minute after minute of footage of a group of young adults 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