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WHY I STARTED WATCHING MOVIES & TV SHOWS AGAIN

Why I got over my s**t & started watching films & Television receiver shows again.

NOTE: I wrote this web log post in October of 2018, lost information technology in my notes, & just found it now then pretend you're reading it in October of 2018. "Recently" in the context of the article means "October of 2018". [Aye, I know if I say 'October of 2018' again, you're gonna throw a pie in my general direction]

At that place's going to be a new characteristic on this blog & I am SUPER DUPER EXCITED.

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MOVIE REVIEWS!

Recently, I've began watching a lot of movies again.

I didn't watch many for a long fourth dimension because I got into this extreme hustle mode where if something didn't seem absolutely productive, I cut it out. Many forms of "entertainment" were reduced or eliminated. I thought that only things that were educational mattered.

Which isn't to say that you shouldn't be constantly learning. It'southward just that after so much learning & deep intense thinking, your brain does demand to play.

And movies are perfect for that.

I used to spotter movies all the fourth dimension, typically at night earlier going to bed. I've always been obsessed (read that as ***OBSESSED***) with movies. As a kid, I watched tons of movies. My sister & I would frequently wear out video tapes or scratch upwards our DVDs in the pursuit of watching our favorite scenes over. And over. And over. And over…

Anyways, I would endlessly emulate my favorite characters. I'd try my best to dress like them, look similar them, act like them. This applied to books too as movies. Violet from the Boxcar Children. Hermione & Luna from Harry Potter. Indiana Jones. Jack Ryan from The Hunt for Red October. And similar hundreds more than. SO many characters have had an affect on me throughout my life. I wanted to be like ALL of them.

Every bit a teenager, I likewise watched a lot of movies. This was sometimes limited to what I could notice on DailyMotion or other video sites, because I had no Netflix & I was too awkward to tell my family unit well-nigh movies I wanted to see. They were also judgmental about movies sometimes or movies being a "bad influence" or not appropriate for my younger sister who was most always home. So I was on my own equally far every bit finding movies, which lead me to watching (*coughing* *cough* pirated) versions of them from video sites (the ones that were free & not "complimentary" but requiring a credit card, evidently. Those were shady. And I didn't take a credit card anyway). Only I DID watch a lot of amazing movies from what I could piece together from YouTube, DailyMotion, & other sites.

To quote actor Jim Sturgess,

"Actually, I feel like [the film that I've just seen] every fourth dimension I come out of the movie theater. If that film's about beingness a hippie, and so I'k similar, 'That'southward it, I'1000 gonna grow my own vegetables.'"

Still, through the years, I eventually lost my zeal in watching movies. "I'thou too busy." I complained. Which was sometimes true. I have had patches where my work schedule was very demanding & if I wanted to SLEEP in any given mean solar day, there was no time for movies. (Or much else, to exist honest).

Then when I DID accept time, I cited the lack of "educational" value in Television set & films. "Bring on the personal development!" I would shout to myself. Only it wasn't similar I watched documentaries. Usually I just watched naught (& crapped effectually the net instead, to exist honest).

Fast forrard to NOW. A few months dorsum, during a rough patch when I was going through some stressful family unit issues. Non but was I trying to process my own emotions, simply I had to be the stone to assist others as they processed THEIRS. So I needed an piece of cake, reliable course of stress relief & routine to starting time my solar day off right so that I wouldn't go overwhelmed.

I began watching episodes of Arrested Development each morning. I was stuck in the 2d flavor & hadn't watched much of anything for a while. Bob's Burgers wasn't on Netflix (bummer), and then I went back to some other of my favorite shows.

Information technology really helped. Watching something funny ever has been highly restorative to me. I give that testify a lot of credit for helping me get through the rough patch merely mildly scathed. Information technology was like therapy, for but the cost of Netflix each month. (On days when I didn't have like 25 minutes to spotter a whole episode before I got upward, I'd watch a v infinitesimal episode of one of my favorite hilarious web serial, Yacht Rock.) My objective was to start the day with something funny each mean solar day.

The rough patch concluded, things got busy again, & I didn't lookout any movies for a few months.

Fast frontward slightly to very contempo times.

So a trivial more than a week ago, I felt kind of an "off" energy in my life. And I thought, "I need to spotter something funny." I decided I'd just pick something from my (long) Netflix spotter list & watch like 20 minutes of information technology and then I could still go to sleep at a reasonable time.

So I selected the 2022 pic "Masterminds." I had no idea what it was most aside from the three-line Netflix description. Just information technology had Owen Wilson in it, & I've never seen an Owen Wilson film I didn't similar.

I watched twenty minutes of information technology. It was hilarious! So the side by side night I had a bit more time & watched like 45 minutes more. I didn't have time the next dark. Just the night after that I finished it. I loved it. (I'yard going to write a review about information technology very presently — it will exist the first pic I review hither).

Not only did I dear the film, but I loved the way watching a moving picture felt.

And I realized (again, because I technically had realized this before but hadn't used this logic in a long time) that I didn't have to look to watch movies until I had 2 hours of complimentary time. As long as twenty minutes wouldn't impede upon my sleep (like if I got out of work late & had to come in early on the adjacent day), there was no damage in taking the time to lookout man a movie.

In fact, doing then was valuable. I realized my idea that "watching movies was a waste of time" which would exist improve spent on more than "austere" activities (*cough* *cough* surfing the web) was utter BULLSHIT. Of course, there are some activities which would accept more than value than watching movies, instead of the phone-surfing i. And of course, if I spent all my time watching movies I wouldn't exist very productive, would I?

Merely I thought back on this video past Allen Gannett.

"'Aha' moments [are subconscious only in one case you have] the ideas that pop into consciousness. And scientists take found that the way to have more of them is to consume more than. […] What you discover is that these great creators are actually mass consumers of culture considering if you wanna connect the dots, you have to have the dots to actually connect."

Consuming RELEVANT entertainment can add to your mental toolbox & help y'all create better things.

And I know for i, even if that wasn't even plenty of a do good how much watching movies BENEFITED ME. (Movies, or engaging for short periods of fourth dimension each mean solar day in other non-developmental activities, aka "entertainment"). Watching movies in this manner actually ADDED a lot to my life. And they really did have developmental & educational merit every bit well.

Mostly considering (*drumroll*) I AM an actress, director, & filmmaker. So I had a DUH moment when I realized of COURSE I should exist watching movies and so I can study movies, in the same manner I listen to & written report music because I'm a musician, wait at people'due south art in galleries or on Instagram because I'm an creative person, or read books & articles because I'm a author. IT IS A LOGICAL Thing TO DO. Not a low-level activity like I was convinced it was.

When I sentry a movie, it's more than just entertainment alone. Every bit far equally acting, I expect at:

• The grapheme development
• The unsaid things behind what a (good) actor is physically expressing
• The acting & how the actors prove certain emotions, or develop the mannerisms of their characters, etc. So I can emulate their interim of a scene & learn boatloads about acting. I hateful, there are some scenes in movies that accept taught me more than about acting than anything else (example: the suicide scenes [1, 2] in Lethal Weapon taught me how good acting is subtle but strong). Character observation is invaluable to my development as an actress & as a fiction writer.

And I discover the story every bit a whole.

• How does the story unfold?
• How does it match the "beats" described in Blake Snyder'due south Salvage the Cat?
• What makes it funny? Are there moments of comedic tension amongst an otherwise dark moving picture?
• What makes the antagonist so creepy & hate-worthy?
• What makes you intendance nearly the protagonists? Why practice yous love these characters so much?
• How does the story build in suspense?
• What is the climax similar & how did they set the residual of the film for that? Does the climax, or any other scene, contain callbacks to before scenes?

Etc etc etc. This is invaluable for my work as a writer & a screenwriter.

I also consider the filmmaking procedure itself:

• How was the movie filmed?
• What cinematography elements exercise they use?
• How do they build the experience of the globe they're trying to create?
• Do they utilise certain lenses to make it wait darker or more magical?
• What angles exercise they use? What makes those angles effective? How do they switch between camera angles & why?
• What flashbacks do they use, & what specific shots of those practice they apply & why?
• Why were the stylistic choices that were made, made?
• How did the director work with each member of the crew, especially the actors, to reach the end result?
• How was the film edited together? Why was it edited that way?
• How were the stunts performed?
• How were the sets built?
• Where did they put the equipment so it wasn't visible in that shot? Etc.

All of which are vital lessons in directing & filmmaking.

And films even accept value for their FASHION, which is something I am totally obsessed with:

• Side one of that is why the costume designers picked those outfits for those characters. What does each item of article of clothing they're wearing & their physical appearance say about them equally a character? How does a character's clothing inform the states of pocket-size details of that graphic symbol that otherwise wouldn't be spoken most? How do those clothes assist the histrion feel like their character?
• And side ii. If I incorporate that item of clothing they're wearing, how volition I feel? What do I desire my clothes to say most me? Not to mention the boat-ton of excellent OUTFITS that I want to get or make myself because I Yet dear emulating characters or copying their fashion vibes. Because as a fashion designer, those types of insights are also invaluable. And until you run into how the clothes brand the character & how the outfit moves on them…looking at still photos tin can't do a lot of outfits justice.

So information technology seems like watching movies could teach me almost as much as going to acting & picture show schoolhouse (but for then much less money! :D).

On elevation of ALL THOSE BENEFITS, watching movies is FUN.

And the matter I've learned about a lot recently (a current "experiment" I'm beginning to appoint in, & will write virtually soon) is how vital fun is to your wellness & your lifestyle, & how enriching it is to your listen. And how important it is to experience good every bit frequently as you can.

So watching movies is good for my health. It teaches me almost a caste's worth of noesis about acting, filmmaking, directing, cinematography, character development, story writing, & fashion design & principles. It enriches my mind. It's fun. It adds so much to my life.

It helps me level upwards my life.

That's why I'thousand back to watching movies once again.

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