Ogre: What are the movies that really influenced the cinema industry?
We all know of how Citizen Kane influenced the cinema industry.
Can you name of other movies and how they influenced the cinema??
Answers and Views:
Answer by PlainPat
The Great Train Robbery. Edison. Not sure exactly, but it influenced people to make movies somehow.
There are so many movies that changed cinema, I mean world cinema. For example, Citizen Kane in terms of characterization and the type of scenes it played. There was a Japanese movie called Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa. It influenced non linear stories like Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects and recently Vantage Point. An Indian movie, Pather Panchali influenced the closeup where you see the full face shot. Then…the Bicycle Thief influenced human stories and the fact that you don’t have a formula. It also influenced the importance of story. Psycho influenced horror movies with the shower scenes. The cinema industry is composed by the introduction of these amazing techniques that influence billions other films. There are so many more, but here’s the ones I can remember.Answer by Panama Joe
“The Great Train Robbery” (1903) from Thomas Edison’s studio was the first film that told a whole story, and it became the first ‘feature’ film ever. Prior to that, most films were just shorts that had a clown juggling, or a dancer, or some physical comedy (prat-falls).
“Birth of a Nation” (1915) by D.W. Griffith told not only a whole story, but was used as propaganda to support racial hatred and Jim Crow laws. The filming techniques, though, for the time, were just eye-popping!
“Wings” (1927) by William Wellman was another triumph of technique. I recently saw this masterpiece again on TCM-TV and I swear I was ducking when the airplanes buzzed the camera!
“Ben Hur” (1907 and 1959) just stunned audiences with it’s depictions of naval battles, Roman cruelties, and the biggest horse races ever filmed. It’s hard to breathe during the famous chariot race in either film! Horses and even stuntmen died in the earlier filming.
“Citizen Kane” (1941) was the brain-child of tyro (beginner) Orson Welles, and tells a thinly veiled account of the life of news publisher William Randolph Hearst. Welles dug trenches in the floor of the studio in order to get the camera angles that he envisioned. The result is arguably the best movie ever made. A great telling of the story of “CK” is in the film “RKO 281.”
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I have got to say, really any film by Martin Scorsese. His work is brilliant and the fact that he just got awarded his oscar his shameful. But at least he got it. He works spans over a bunch of years…. and this is why it impacts the industry. It is simply exceptional.
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
Cape Fear
Gangs of New York
The Departed
Okay, lets go one by one
The arrival of the train – shot by Lumiere Bros – the first ever film to be shot
Great Train Robbery – Art of Story telling
DW Griifith’s Cinema – for use of parallel cutting (eliptical cutting) where two situations have been portrayed simultaneously… the fact which makes a movie progress today
Stage Coach
Gone With the Wind – For technical Excellence and introducing technicolor
Vittorio DeSicca’s Bycycle Thief
Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin
Pudovkin’s Ivan the terrible
Satyajit Ray’s Pather panchali
Traffaut’s films
David lean’s Bridge of River Kwaii
Franksinatara-Dean Martin films for the musical genre
Alfred Hitchcock for Horror Films
Billy Wilder for escapist cinema like Sound of Music
Love Story
Dr No – for the Bond era and spy films
Rambo and Terminator for bloddiest era
Star wars for Sci-fi
Kurusova’s Seven Samurai
Ingmar bergman’s Seventh Seal
Casablanca for the Dark Romantic endings
Elvis Presely’s Jail House Rock and others – for pure escapist entertainment for the young generation
Magnificient Seven for promoting big screen
Ben Hur for Historical movies
Speilberg’s Jaws for realistic horror
and ofcourse many more…
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