Analyzing Movies

The readings for this week involved the audience's ability to properly analyze all the different aspects of a movie. Though we have not been able to discuss these articles in class yet, there is many things to be said about the readings. The two passages relate to one another but focus on slightly different areas. The second reading was about a man named Roger Ebert. He is an extremely famous movie reviewer.

He spoke of the fact that audience's watch movies based on their advertisement budgets. This means that people go to the movies which are broadcast on a large scale to them. People tend to neglect subtitle films and watching movies more as a witness than a collaborator as he stated in this passage. I agree that people do tend to witness a movie rather than stop the movie and discuss it with their peers. People try to grasp the overall plot of the movie more. I think Roger Ebert is trying to get the audience to focus on the director's intentions and critique things such as lighting or setting. The only problem I have with this is that stopping a film to discuss it ruins the flow and can take away from the suspense or emtions portrayed on screen. For example, if we are about to hit the climax in a movie and my friend stops to talk about the lighting, my mind is redirected off the subject and the movie's intentions of reaching a climax is lost.

In conclusion, Roger Ebert is a credible reviewer who makes excellent points when he speaks of people not watching enough movies that aren't broadcast often in advertising. We should become more active and expand our horizons. However, I think he may have gone into too much detail about what his job entails and not enough of about why expanding my horizons will be beneficial. His opinion is clear, but his justification does not appeal to me as the reader.