Impulse

Just got back from see­ing The Incredibles. Excellent movie as always from Pixar. It proves yet again that a good story, well devel­oped char­ac­ters that we can empathize with, and great por­trayal of those char­ac­ters & moments is what makes a movie enjoy­able. Pixar knows that these are the areas to focus on and it shows in all their movies. Ok, they do have one of the best tech­ni­cal depart­ments in the biz, but they don’t let the tech­nique rule the craft.
You can have all the effects you want, bril­liant tech­nol­ogy, and stun­ning visu­als, but if you loose the story and char­ac­ters, you won’t have a movie that peo­ple leave the the­ater say­ing, “That was a great movie.â€? You’ll have Sky Captain – a beau­ti­ful movie but com­pletely flat in every other dimen­sion. It’s a great pic­ture book.
Expressing this story and these char­ac­ters with fidelity, clar­ity, and finesse the essence of the art of sto­ry­telling. So why do so few peo­ple under­stand this? Or rather, why do so many movies, books, etc, all appear that their cre­ators for­got this…
‘Course, there’s a dif­fer­ence between know­ing the path and walk­ing the path. I’m still learn­ing to walk.
Side note: Actually, I didn’t like some of the tech­ni­cal aspects of The Incredibles. Whether by choice or acci­dent, the peo­ple looked like they were plas­tic toys. That’d be fine if they didn’t each have amaz­ingly real­is­tic hair. They’re too dissimilar.

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