Why Great Filmmakers Choose Character Over Plot

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  • Опубліковано 7 жов 2024

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  • @experimentalcinema9352
    @experimentalcinema9352 11 місяців тому +5

    Grear video...
    Character driven films adds a greater layer to a film, they help the audience connect with the film more easily (atleast in my case)
    Some of my favourite character driven films :-
    - Mulholland drive (2001)
    - Mean streets (1973)
    - There will be blood (2007)
    - 8 ½ (1963)
    - Winter light (1963)
    - Citizen Kane (1941)

  • @princejaman4285
    @princejaman4285 11 місяців тому +5

    This is soo good.... in today's world of attention span and calculations to make audience stay a little longer and not click out your video stands out as GOOD INFORMATION MATTERS the structure is great, your tone is great whatever you say I'm learning.... this is great video essay 👏🏻 👌🏼 truely happy to be a subscriber to this. Great work man ❤

  • @r.c.c.10
    @r.c.c.10 2 місяці тому +1

    That's more like a preference. Neither is better. In my opinion, characters should be part of the plot and there's not one without the other. Character progression and even development conforms a plot.

  • @vayunandanreddy4847
    @vayunandanreddy4847 11 місяців тому +8

    The title should have been why "some" not "great" filmmakers choose character over plot

  • @dezyancey6336
    @dezyancey6336 11 місяців тому +5

    Great video man keep it up

  • @Lux_Lethal
    @Lux_Lethal 11 місяців тому +1

    Happy to have found your channel! Keep it up! 👏

  • @OathBoy_562
    @OathBoy_562 7 місяців тому +1

    Tenet slander not allowed. Tenet is a masterpiece

  • @ihavethestick
    @ihavethestick 11 місяців тому +4

    thank you youtube algorithm

  • @dominichailstone
    @dominichailstone 9 місяців тому

    Great video. I would actually argue Psycho is almost an experiment about plot meeting character. Hithcock deliberately leading you down a plot driven path just to land on Norman's doorstep. At that point the film becomes all about him.

  • @jeetsarkar2525
    @jeetsarkar2525 10 місяців тому

    Nice video. Want more videos like this from you in future.

  • @AK_unraveled
    @AK_unraveled 9 місяців тому

    Really a great work bro keep it up

  • @edo.creative
    @edo.creative 11 місяців тому +1

    Great video! Subscribing!
    Can i ask what music you used at 2:00?

  • @Infamous1892
    @Infamous1892 11 місяців тому +3

    It's Stephen King who said,"Read a lot, Write a lot and Story over Plot." Plot is the last resort of a bad writer.

    • @DirectorsSpotlight
      @DirectorsSpotlight  11 місяців тому +1

      Well said

    • @Skanda1111
      @Skanda1111 10 місяців тому

      How is the story different from the plot? Without a plot can there be a story?

    • @DirectorsSpotlight
      @DirectorsSpotlight  10 місяців тому

      @@Skanda1111 You're right story and plot are interconnected, well he is talking about the plot-driven stories and character-driven stories I guess.

    • @Skanda1111
      @Skanda1111 10 місяців тому

      @@DirectorsSpotlight - Even if it is character-driven, in the end, it does serve a plot. That plot is the character's arc or the story? It cannot be just character driven in a narrative feature unless you're making a documentary about a person? Wouldn't it be boring without a revelation at the end? Not necessarily a happy ending but the character coming full circle through the plot? Because I think the circumstances make the character, so the plot is mostly the circumstances the character is going through.

    • @DirectorsSpotlight
      @DirectorsSpotlight  10 місяців тому

      @@Skanda1111 yup your right :)

  • @jkcrawl
    @jkcrawl 9 місяців тому +1

    Because plot is only one component of what makes a great movie and it's not the same thing as story.

  • @capncook1892
    @capncook1892 11 місяців тому +1

    Great video man

  • @arunraj6009
    @arunraj6009 11 місяців тому +2

    Good video

  • @charlessmyth
    @charlessmyth 3 місяці тому

    The successful dramatist relies on plot, so that they don't end up with how Taxi Driver or The Verdict played out :-)

  • @Quantum-tv-please-get-a-job
    @Quantum-tv-please-get-a-job 11 місяців тому +9

    To be fair to Tenet, Christopher Nolan wanted to tell a story without character so i respect the hell out of it

    • @iquadvecta
      @iquadvecta 11 місяців тому +2

      Accurate!

    • @zootin6688
      @zootin6688 11 місяців тому +2

      i only saw it once in theaters, and was pretty underwhelmed by the plot/story. i definitely walked in with certain expectations, and while I did enjoy a lot of aspects of it, i was still pretty disappointed. but tbh i've really been wanting to give it a rewatch lately, would you say its a film that gets better with a second watch? also the though of subtitles for it makes it more appealing, since i was pretty annoyed with not being able to understand what seemed to be a lot of important dialogue.

    • @Quantum-tv-please-get-a-job
      @Quantum-tv-please-get-a-job 11 місяців тому +2

      @@zootin6688 thats the point if he didn’t muffled the sounds it would have revealed who the characters are and that contradicts nolans vision of making everything good except character

    • @nicolaslabra2225
      @nicolaslabra2225 10 місяців тому

      the title of this video strikes me as some one saying "great musicians choose melody over harmony", it's just a reductive assersion.