How to View and Appreciate Great Movies
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Eric Williams
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What makes a movie “great”? Was it a particularly well-acted scene? The dramatic lighting? The emotion of the music? The tension that has built up? A powerful choice of words? The answer is, simply, yes.
Sit down with renowned professional filmmaker, author, and award-winning professor Eric R. Williams to unpack the elements of more than 250 “great” movies - some well-known, others less so - including Casablanca, Jaws, The Godfather, Star Wars, Rocky, Do The Right Thing, The Wizard of Oz, and more in order to gain insights and secrets that will change the way you view films. You’ll discover how from the moment you sit down, great filmmakers control every sensation the movie experience evokes: tremors or tears, goosebumps or giggles, and why it is that we invite them to do this. You’ll also uncover the tricks used to help us suspend our disbelief, let go of our cynicism, and buy into a story using sounds, scores, lighting, color, special effects, and more. You’ll discover how even these seemingly small details can greatly enhance or detract from the theme, atmosphere, and plot.
Professor Williams often refers to filmmaking as a magic show. And once you pull back the curtain to see the creative process from the filmmaker’s point of view, the magic show can never be the same again. But understanding the intent of each aspect of moviemaking - from lighting to language, color to characters, stars to scores - arms you with new set of creative and analytical tools with which to bring to the theater or to revisit your old favorites. These insights will strengthen your love and appreciation for what’s unfolding before your eyes.
Roger Ebert once said, “Every great film should seem new every time you see it” and that’s exactly what How to View and Appreciate Great Movies ensures.
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- Oscar FMA
- 22-12-21
Very funny and didactic.
I love The Great Courses, and this is the course that I have enjoyed the most. It has taken me a year to complete it, as I have been watching most of the films. Eric accomplish what he promises at the beginning of the lectures, you change the way you see movies. Now I enjoy them at another deeper level. Thank you.
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- Mr. Farren K. Perkins
- 14-11-19
How to save cash on a film studies course
If you've ever wondered what it's like to study film, this is like the handbook version of year 1. If you were to go to the introductory lecture of each topic, this is what you'd get. If that's what you're after, then great.
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- ML
- 16-04-21
Excellent course
Enjoyable and well constructed.
Minor points:
-some analogies refer to American culture, which may not be known to non-US listeners.
- there are long pauses sometimes and I was wondering whether something had gone wrong.
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- Adisha
- 02-03-19
Outstanding course!
I thoroughly enjoyed this course! It is packed full of fascinating and thought-provoking facts and movie insights about film production, screenwriting and sound design.
Encourages further study into the subject of 'cinematic literacy'.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-08-20
high expectations.. old school America centric
I had high expectations for the subject as I enjoy movies and World movies however although the delivery is quite punchy I was mainly uninterested in his multiple references to too old old films like The Wizard of Oz The Godfather mainly male orientated movies like Raging Bull gangster movies bit of Spielberg America centric movies not films I never want to watch again
it's a shame that his material is so outdated but as someone said at least it is a grounding in a year 1 media studies course which I never took.
there is some more constructive information on the voice and point of view near the end. I much preferred the Egyptians great courses and I'm currently enjoying the great courses entitled writing great fiction which seems practical as well as thought provoking
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