2008 Woodie Awards
Life is Replicated in Movies
HDTV Positive
Julia Corral
Issue date: 10/3/07 Section: Entertainment
"Have you ever tried to break up with someone who wouldn't let you break up with them?" This is the new tagline for Ben Stiller's "The Heartbreak Kid."
To typical answer to this question is no. But if you ask any man who has ended a relationship before the woman wanted it to end, he will give you a resounding "yes."
Those same women are the ones who will fill the movies theaters and make the movie a success because they can identify with the subject matter.
How we see things in real life is replicated in movies. Filmmakers use our emotions to their advantage, to make us feel like we have a connection to the characters in their films and will therefore be more inclined to see them.
Movies have become our new political motivations.
A child somewhere in Iowa is in class dreaming about one day becoming a speechwriter for the president, so that one day their words can impact a nation like John F. Kennedy's famous "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
Unfortunately this child will not be able to fulfill his dream. Not since the '60s have we had a speech that left an imprint on our hearts, but we have had hundreds of movies that did.
The country has entered a sort of malaise about politics. They don't want to hear about the war on National Public Radio, and they don't want to read about it on paper. They want to see it on the big screen. People want to see Ben Affleck drive a missile to the Middle East while Jamie Foxx makes off colored jokes.
They want the American flag on Kate Beckinsale's breasts while Clint Eastwood directs it all on a budget provided by The Weinstein Company. Americans feel safe when they can relate to the people they watch. Bruce Willis and Will Smith have prepared us for national disasters like meteors and aliens with trailers that look like ads for the Army.
They make everything look cool. The movie can be a flop, but we sit through it because it is our civil duty. We want the answers to tough questions shown to us so we don't have to think of the solution ourselves.
Movies have the chance to change the world's course and bring us down the path of enlightenment. We need to continue to believe and follow a new yellow brick road.
Hilary Clinton, Barrack Obama and John Edwards, this is your chance to get new voters on your side. Forget YouTube and MySpace. You are only marketing to a demographic that can consist mostly of convicted pedophiles and kids who are under 18, and we know that neither group can vote. If you really want to reach them, the place to do it is in the movie theatre during "American Pie 7: Stifler's Revenge."
Movies play on our emotions and bring us to action more than a speech from a leading presidential candidate ever could.
To typical answer to this question is no. But if you ask any man who has ended a relationship before the woman wanted it to end, he will give you a resounding "yes."
Those same women are the ones who will fill the movies theaters and make the movie a success because they can identify with the subject matter.
How we see things in real life is replicated in movies. Filmmakers use our emotions to their advantage, to make us feel like we have a connection to the characters in their films and will therefore be more inclined to see them.
Movies have become our new political motivations.
A child somewhere in Iowa is in class dreaming about one day becoming a speechwriter for the president, so that one day their words can impact a nation like John F. Kennedy's famous "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
Unfortunately this child will not be able to fulfill his dream. Not since the '60s have we had a speech that left an imprint on our hearts, but we have had hundreds of movies that did.
The country has entered a sort of malaise about politics. They don't want to hear about the war on National Public Radio, and they don't want to read about it on paper. They want to see it on the big screen. People want to see Ben Affleck drive a missile to the Middle East while Jamie Foxx makes off colored jokes.
They want the American flag on Kate Beckinsale's breasts while Clint Eastwood directs it all on a budget provided by The Weinstein Company. Americans feel safe when they can relate to the people they watch. Bruce Willis and Will Smith have prepared us for national disasters like meteors and aliens with trailers that look like ads for the Army.
They make everything look cool. The movie can be a flop, but we sit through it because it is our civil duty. We want the answers to tough questions shown to us so we don't have to think of the solution ourselves.
Movies have the chance to change the world's course and bring us down the path of enlightenment. We need to continue to believe and follow a new yellow brick road.
Hilary Clinton, Barrack Obama and John Edwards, this is your chance to get new voters on your side. Forget YouTube and MySpace. You are only marketing to a demographic that can consist mostly of convicted pedophiles and kids who are under 18, and we know that neither group can vote. If you really want to reach them, the place to do it is in the movie theatre during "American Pie 7: Stifler's Revenge."
Movies play on our emotions and bring us to action more than a speech from a leading presidential candidate ever could.
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