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The Movies That "Changed" Your Life |
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dr wu23 
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 Topic: The Movies That "Changed" Your LifePosted: September 16 2021 at 07:31 |
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As many have said none 'changed my life'...but many of the early sci-fi (and horror films) like Forbidden Planet really caught my attention as a child. I also watched Twilight Zone and Outer Limits as well as the early show One Step Beyond. They all influenced my later reading and tv and film choices to some degree.
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Posted: September 16 2021 at 06:44 |
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Again, I don't think any movie every changed my life, but impactful ones include
Schindler's List Lorenzo's Oil Groundhog Day (yup!) Oh, and Les Miserables (although I saw it first at the theatre)
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Posted: September 11 2021 at 13:36 |
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"La montaña sagrada" ("The Holy Mountain") by Alejandro Jodorowsky "¡Viva la muerte!" ("Long Live Death!") by Fernando Arrabal "Zardoz" by John Boorman I saw all three movies in succession as a special feature at some cinema. What's more: I had taken LSD before watching them. Seeing three very weird movies while under the influence of the drug was a mind-blowing experience. Somehow my drug-addled brain fused them together as one super long and super weird movie. It definitely changed my mind.
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Posted: September 10 2021 at 10:51 |
I know the feeling. The Blob convinced a seven year old me.
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Posted: September 10 2021 at 08:21 |
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Maybe not films that have changed my life, but ones that have made an impact on me or made me think about life, the universe and everything... for diverse reasons. In no particular order: The Birds (Hitchcock)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman) The Exorcist (Friedkin) Emmanuelle (Jaeckin) Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pasolini) Baise Moi (Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Thi) The Idiots (von Trier) Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! (Meyer) Salon Kitty (Brass) Bound (Wachowski) Blazing Saddles (Brooks) The Wicker Man (Hardy) Realm of the Senses (Ôshima) Ken Park (Clark) Amelie (Jeunet) Betty Blue (Beineix) ...and probably many many more. |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: September 10 2021 at 08:05 |
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Dr. Who & the Daleks with Peter Cushing, when I really did believe there was an invasion force of Daleks roaming the streets of London, ready to Exterminate anyone who stood in their way.
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I'm mentioning something that is prog related... my mother took my brother and me to watch Yellow Submarine in cinema when I was 8 or 9. That was more my gateway into music than into film really, although I also loved the visuals. Anyway, I had had no idea before how much power music could have, this was the first experience of this kind. Another music film that had an influence on my music taste was Fred Frith's Step Across the Border, demonstrating lots of ideas how music can be done I hadn't been aware of before. The whole attitude in it about how one could raise the normal sounds and what we see in life to a meditative experience and ultimately to music and a film, influenced me big time. I'll think of films that had an influence other than music, but these are really the first that come to mind and music is top important in my life. Edited by Lewian - September 10 2021 at 08:08 |
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"On The Waterfront" and "The Godfather" because when I saw those in high school, it led me to a ton of other movies and over two decades later, I still love movies, I just can't find any great ones anymore. Hell, I'd settle for just good, which is also kinda rare.
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Posted: September 10 2021 at 07:41 |
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I can't say that any movie changed my life, but the enjoyment or thought provoking they inspired cannot be measured. And these movies are too numerous to list.
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My dad renting Life of Brian on VHS in 1986/87 was actually pretty lifechanging. Most things besides the obvious jokes went over my head the first time watching. But I saw it once again the morning after. It was like my balls dropped and watching that third cherry spin into it's place in line on the slot machine screen simultaneously (if you know whay I mean). A lightbulb went on in my head that morning, so to speak. It literally changed me and my worldview. -Later in life Tarkovskij (Andrej Rubljov, Solaris), Herzog (Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo), Bergman (many, but most of all Wild Strawberries), Von Trier (Melancholia, Antichrist), Kubrick (The Shining), Lynch (Mulholland Drive), Zvyagintsev (The Return and I suppose the equally stunning hopelessness of Leviathan - but I only saw it a couple of years ago) has somewhat shaped me, but not like the pythons did first (I could add The Meaning of Life to this list). Gee, that's pretty bleak and serious stuff. Nowadays I just want a good laugh or a good scare. Not entirely true, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now...
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Posted: September 09 2021 at 20:17 |
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as a child, FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956), opened my eyes to science fiction & ears to the music of other places...
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Posted: September 09 2021 at 19:31 |
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Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi As much as 'New Hope' did to change my thinking of SiFi movies, 'Return Of The Jedi' special effects blew my mind. It was very hard to see SiFi movies prior to 'Return' in the same light. 
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Posted: September 09 2021 at 16:31 |
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Posted: September 09 2021 at 15:33 |
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I guess I Should have added 1977 Eraserhead (first real 'experimental/art' movie I ever saw, left me gobsmacked)
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Posted: September 09 2021 at 15:25 |
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- Clockwork Orange (it changed my vocabulary)
- Brazil (just wowed me as a teen) - 2001: A Space Odyssey (remarkable to watch as a young child and it still resonates. Unlike some, I have never found it too slow or boring) - Zardoz (it changed my fashion sense) - Time Bandits and The Dark Crystal (fueled my young mind) - - Delicatessen (made me appreciate better what I have on the table) Das Boot (saw this in the cinema when young and I loved seeing a film with subtitles) These were some that made me decide to go into film studies, as I had become very into mostly non-English language arthouse pictures and international cinema. - Ju Dou, Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern - Three Colours Trilogy: Blue, White and Red - Wim Wenders - Wings of Desire - Tampopo |
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Oh, this has reminded me my favourite cinematic experience. When I began my university education in Ankara in 1999, a fully-fledged IMAX theater was being built inside a shopping mall there. When it was built (I guess in 2000), there were only 7 of them in all the Europe. I watched Encounter in the Third Dimension (1999) then, and was totally blown away. I think I saw it more than a dozen times in the cinema. The best experience ever!!! Edited by Shadowyzard - September 09 2021 at 15:17 |
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Posted: September 09 2021 at 15:06 |
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I don't think any movie has ever changed my life. That being said, there are certainly movies that I found impactful (I guess) 1972 The Godfather (the shear violence was something I'd never seen in a movie before) 1973 Flesh for Frankenstein (aka Andy Warhol's Frankenstein in 3D) (first 3D movie I ever saw) 1975 Jaws (first and only time I've jumped in my seat at a movie, and it wasn't the shark, it was the half eaten head that popped out of the ship hull) 1979 Apocalypse Now (incredible cinematography)
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Posted: September 09 2021 at 15:03 |
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"Trading Places", for showing how shockingly easy it is to go from being comfortably well-off, to being homeless and destitute, even though it's meant to be a comedy.
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Posted: September 09 2021 at 15:01 |
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"Life changing" is exaggerated, but a film that made a big impression on me was Im lauf der Zeit (Kings of the Road, in English) by Wim Wenders. Both cinematographically (camera work by Robby Müller) as story-tellingly a wonderful film that showed to me that there is much more liberty to find outside of the norms and conventions that society imposes on us...
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