Movies.
I consider myself a fair bit of a movie addict; not that I have any knowledge or intelligence on the matter or can examine them with any credible critique, I just love them for what they are and the stories they tell.
However, I can be quite particular.
For example, I watch movies from only 5 genres: action, horror, comedy, fantasy and Disney.
Oh, and I hate documentaries. They bore me to death.
So I took the “movie week” assignment as a challenge: are there interesting movies with photographer main characters? If so, is their any relation to photography? Any thematic connection or really no point at all?
Turns out there aren’t as many as I would like! Seems Disney doesn’t make a “Prince Charming of Photography”. So I picked one per genre.
Horror: “Midnight Meat Train”
Action: “Spiderman”
Documentary-ish: “Factory Girl”
Yes documentary-ish… I was determined that I could find a decent documentary style film that kept me awake and interested.
I’ve seen some of these films before yes, and long ago, but I have never looked at them through the lens of my camera (not literally of course). All of them appealed to me not because of their relation to photography but as the movies themselves. I figured it would be a neat approach to view them differently that their original intent.
Following this are my findings…
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