That's right today is the first wonderful foray into a world of random and ill conceived suggestions about things i am not entirely sure that i understand. This blog is going to be looking into and exploring the details of the visual arts concentrating mainly on film and TV with links to various lectures, lead by interesting people who seem to have spent more time than is entirely necessary on evaluating the meaning of what is essentially entertainment.
Well now that introductory crap is out the way i suppose i should put something up that's interesting and worth actually reading. One thing Ive learned already is that trying to be creative and interesting to anyone unfortunate enough to actually read this blog is not helped by listening to the theme from the 'A Team'. Which if were being honest is probably only helpfully if your welding two halves of a car together before doing some unnecessarily dramatic heroics involving a helicopter piloted by a man who belongs in a straight jacket. If you do find yourself in such a situation then owing to the law of sod you will have left your ipod at home and wont be able to listen to it anyway, life can be a bitch like that.
Which i suppose in a very unusual way leads me on to introduce the first subject i'm going to be looking at, ... reality. When we watch a film what makes it seem real to us? does it seem real to us? Well probably yes or you wouldn't bother watching it would you, so a film has to engage us on some level where it takes you away from your mundane lives where your not James Bond and lets you live through his adventures. Which is just as well really when you think about it i mean the average Peugeot 206 doesn't handle too well at 160mph doing a upside down jump over a plane.
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