The Art of Overanalyzing Movies
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Publicado 2018-11-09
When is analysis too much? Let's have a look at artistic intent and see when analyzing movies goes too far, and when it doesn't.
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Warm --- Joey Pecoraro; found thanks to @TheZenNico
Todos los comentarios (21)
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I love how you are over analyzing over analyzing
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Bob Dylan and John Lennon intentionally started to write nonsensical lyrics on the 60's to make fun of these people who tries to see the hidden meaning on everything
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When I was in secondary school studying English literature we spent literally two weeks over analysing the "fog" outside of the house in the 'woman in black' which was later made into a movie with Daniel Radcliffe and what it means and one girl actually got so sick she emailed Susan hill, the author and asked her exactly what she meant. Her reply: "it's literally just fog"
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Character: uses key, gets stabbed, or drives into tunnel Freudian analysts: S E X ?
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I went to an arts exposition in Brazil (excuse my English) as an arts student. We had been analyzing a lot of paintings and the meaning behind the colors that were used. We came across a well known artist, and he had a painting of a guy with green hair. My teacher was like, "what is the meaning behind his hair color?" and the guy said "well I ran out of brown paint, so I just used green because it looks cool lmao". Teacher was very disappointed
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Glorious! Keep these overanalyzed video essays coming. I love them!
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I'm a bit believer that a crucial part of movie analysis is introspecting unintended themes. That is why it's called subtext. It is subconscious. That's not to say that intentional hidden meanings don't exist and those are fun to analyze too. I'm also convinced The Shining contains a lot of both.
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I like Oscar Wilde's take on art, specifically what he wrote in the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray: "The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or new material his impression of beautiful things." (Just the first few lines of the preface)
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"If someone tells you what a story is about, they are probably right. If they tell you that that is all a story is about, they are very definitely wrong." -Neil Gaiman
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Me: * overthinking this video *
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“Somethings aren’t meant to be understood, their meant to be felt” Christopher Nolan on Interstellar
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I don’t see stanley kubrick’s face in the clouds :/
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I personally really like it how a piece of art can have a different meaning to everyone.
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I love what David Lynch says: "I hate when something is finished, and people want you to translate it back into words."
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Film: Introduces a character who is eating Me: 'oh he's hungry or greedy' My English teacher: 'this character has a vast emptiness inside him that needs to be filled'
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I took an art class in college. After one of my pieces the teacher asked me to write a short description talking about the meaning of my work. I told her there was none, I just did what I felt like doing in the moment. She said make up the meaning then. That's just a story, I guess make up your own meaning to it
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After J.K Rowling, it's hard to take artist's words as law. Edit: after a certain point YT decided not to remind of this post and whoa! That's a lot of likes.
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I think Tarantino said it best with “it wasn’t the movie they intended to make but it was the movie they made.” Judy Garland never meant to be a gay icon. Pee Wee’s playhouse was meant for kids but gained a huge following with college kids. You don’t get to pick who likes your work and why they like it and what they see in it. And that’s ok! For me it keeps movies fun to talk with my friends after about what we thought .
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I once had a teacher insist that the story of “Lord of The Flies” matched up perfectly with “Bohemian Rhapsody”. She also had us over analyzing why the author chose to describe the foliage on the island as green.
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“To the complaint, 'There are no people in these photographs,' I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.” ― Ansel Adams
