one of the ways that the study of literature the study of film differs from the study of technical things and the reason I teach it is that it belongs to everyone that it's valuable for everyone not everyone needs to know about quantum mechanics but I believe everyone should and if they don't I feel they're impoverished know how to read a good story and joy plays know how to enjoy the movies so I feel that what I'm giving my students is in some sense something even more valuable to them because
it will be something that they'll have with them for their whole lives for their whole career one of the things MIT students sometimes often do not realize is that a very large number of them do not end up making their living in the areas in which they majored but all of them end up wanting to go to the movies all of them end up with a capacity to read and enjoy literature and I hope that coming out of my classes they'll do those things with greater joy and with greater intelligence one of the t
hings I hope all of you will have when you come out of this course is a much more confident sense of how to look at movies not to spoil your enjoyment of kicking back in looking at a stupid Schwarzenegger entertainment if you want to not to make you feel guilty about that but to make you be able to tell the difference between something like that and what I'll call a work of art implicit in my film course is an admiration for a certain kind of achievement an admiration for a certain kind of artis
t an artist like Jean Renoir the great filmmaker if I were deprived of the pleasure of seeing boudu again for the rest of my days I would never forget that grass that dust and their relationship to the liberty of a the point of this exercise is to remind you of the immense power the potency of even a single camera move think what that 180 degree pan suggests as bezu brilliantly argues for us so the conclusion then is that the visual style of a film of our certain films anyway can express a moral
vision and by moral vision I don't mean moralistic what's more what's what's didactically right and wrong but a vision of having to do with the values and assumptions you make about the nature of the world there's a moral implicit in the tentative necessity' n-- see the retarding impulse of to dwell and linger on things in in the in Renoir's camera and in the basic habits of of poetic realism that you will see brilliantly embodied in the film you're going to watch tonight grand illusion because
i want to set up as a candidate for their admiration an alternative to wall street an alternative to entrepreneurial genius I admire John Renoir is genius or Orson Welles is genius or James Joyce's genius universe is more than they invite and then I then I admire what entrepreneurs I respect what entrepreneurs do but I am in awe of what great artists do and and and of what great I have got great doctors to what while we're on the subject it was I'm uneasy about the extent to which even in withi
n MIT s culture we've become so preoccupied by what we might call commercial or financial success instead of the kind of lasting success that great art or the practice of medicine or the practice of Nursing or dare I say it the practice of teaching might also embody
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The passion of this man is contagious.
The few comments here demonstrate a kind of knee-jerk cynicism too often shoved into the faces of those who dare suggests the arts might be worth something. What these cynics fail to understand is that educational institutes are not necessarily intended to provide job training; they are places for people to learn. Now, if you want to learn the skills applicable to a particular line of work, that's great. Really, it is. But for many people this kind of education is only valuable insofar as it'll one day pay the bills and put food on the table. For the individual, a practical education answers only one question: "How will I make a living?" It's an important question, but only one question, nonetheless. Film/art/literature/etc. courses, on the other hand, take on every other question that might give meaning to an individual, some emmensely complex. One that comes to mind is, once one's living is made, why might one care to make it? Studying art exposes a student to challenging ideas and teaches him/her to read them and ask strong questions about them. Dedicating serious time to this kind of study gives the student a wealth of content and ideas that add layers and textures to each of that student's subsequent experiences. This is what the instructor in the video was talking about when he said that people who don't spend time with film/art are impoverished. Art augments our experience of the world; the more you consume, and the more thoughtfully you consume it, the richer your experiences will be. There's more to life than putting food on the table. Perhaps if more people understood this, we wouldn't live in a world where obesity kills more people annually than starvation.
What great passion... really inspired me! Thank you for this
This is what you call passion of cinema.just 3minute video is refreshed my mind more than a cup of hot tea
Man he's a badass passion machine.
I'm in awe of your passion towards cinema and art...Respect
I wish this guy was my teacher !
a most interesting insight into film studies.
All I needed was one point he made to know he knows what he talking about, about the camera moving 180 degrees
Basically, I'm afraid of everything in life, except filmmaking -Lars von Trier
Never knew that Modi was a film buff
The stealth of gaining economic wealth has ruined arts and sciences. As a Filmmaker and an actor myself, who experiences the wrath of commerce on his creativity now and then, I agree with every word you said here and thank you wholeheartedly, Professor.
Amen!
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I thought it will be another boring lecture..ohhh my god i am going to binge watch his lecture and make notes❤❤
Why study "<placeholder>"? There is a finite amount of time in people's lives. Find what's important and delve into it whether it's cooking, juggling, art, etc.... While this professor is certainly passionate and I do love film, there's more to the "Why study <placeholder>" and it's more nuanced than stated.
my club in my school is film study
wtf how did my school find this
modi
He sounds like Scorsese