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| Eat The Brain >> Hach's Movie Tips By: Hach 
There�s a bottom line in the world, money talks, bullshit walks. So in the honor of that and everyone�s biggest love, I give to you Hach�s Movie Script Tips� In the source of making a movie, because I know we all have attempted or thought of making a movie, more or less writing a script. This of course being the first installment, which I�m calling �The Virgin Dies�
Everyone has their favorite movies, from it being just one movie, to a whole shampoo of movie genres. So whether you like horror films, romantic films, comedy films or even documentaries. There is always one constant. In any epic production I don�t care if it�s Casablanca, Gone With The Wind or even Wizard Of Oz, someone must die. It�s not a good thing, yes, I know, but this is what makes the films better. If you went a whole 90 plus minutes and no one died, nor any mention of someone who had passed along. Then you�d have yourself a movie that no one has died in and most likely won�t help you along in the epic department. Now, why must people die in a movie to make it an epic? Simple, because if no one is to either die or being mentioned of being dead then it wouldn�t feel real, it would be mostly fantasy. You need to connect people to the movie, you need to make mention of death, because death is indeed an every day occurrence, someone famous, someone not so famous, just people die. And the knowledge of life ends helps tremendously. While it is true that not all movies feature death, dying or the mention of death, but these movies aren�t what we call classics. Why is the Lion King a probable candidate to being a classic, because there�s death, there is also birth, vengeance among other things. But while death isn�t the over riding theme in the Lion King, but what it is a dramatic moment to possibly help the younger viewers understand death a little better, but at the same time it�s telling a story of a �young prince� who has to battle his way from the bottom back up to the top, in order to take the crown and be known as the �Lion King�. Why is death such a major tool in movies? Is it because it sends a deep chill down peoples body any time the word death, dead, or die is used? Not exactly, but try this one on for size, we all have dealt with dying at some point in our lives, if not a human, maybe a pet, from the age we first know how to think we learn the difference between yes and no. And an obvious no would be death. We learn how that feels; it helps us better to feel the pain and agony it is to have someone die or something. It shoves that emotional knife right threw your heart and you say to yourself be there anyone he/she can continue? Is there any possible way? But somehow there is. In movies that cover war issues, such as Casablanca, Gone With The Wind, Braveheart, Saving Private Ryan, and the numerous others. Have all dealt with death. In Braveheart death was a determinate to getting revenge on England, when William Wallace�s father, brother and his lover we�re all kid at the hands of the English. In Saving Private Ryan, a group of soldiers we�re patched together to find this one Private who�s four brothers had all died, while they are searching for him to send him home, they themselves must face death in their own search to keep one last man alive. In war movies death is usually not something they usually drain on? Or happen to waste time commenting or dramatizing about. With death comes happiness In some motion pictures death is sometimes a glorious thing, such as movies like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Friday The 13th, and other dramatized movies with plots which include a stalker of some sorts. These movies build on death, on the death of one man could set others free. As in the case with the Friday The 13th films, you see a man who goes around and kills visitors who mainly come to this one camp and then the end is always him dying and the survivors filled with happiness. This is another way to throw a spin in with a hard touch of drama. This sort of death is what I call Championship Death. It�s like you�re in this tournament such as the NFL Playoffs, the NCAA�s March Madness where it�s the last man standing and in order to be the winner you have to kill the other person. I could probably list 30 movies with endings that include someone dying. I just watched Insomnia for the first time, they had that occur. Championship Death is good, it�s always good, but it could be a little like make believe or say a cartoon at times. There are numerous other forms of death in which movies are based around or occur in. The Comedic Deaths are something of a questionable thing, if you can at least make it filled with humor and not touch the audience�s nerve, although making them laugh. Death and movies are like breathing and blinking. It�s something that just happens. In order to tell a story, death has to be involved, because well, most stories do include death. Because people die every second, a sad but true fact. To Be Continued... |