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movie that made you want to make movies?

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Interesting. The films earlier in the thread that seem like they came out last year just make me feel old. "I was inspired to make movies by LOTR!" Yeah, maybe I'll have to get around to seeing that. It's still in theaters, right?

I could name a dozen awesome, awe-inspiring films, but the films that made me want to make movies, or rather the films that made me realize I COULD, were the films of Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez and Richard Linklater. I was already working professionally in television and assumed I couldn't 'play in the bigs.' Not being a millennial, I didn't believe I had the over-inflated sense of self-worth and ego required to actually succeed at the Hollywood level, but these films made me realize that filmmaking is about storytelling- and, theoretically, anyone can do it.

Of course, those films seem to of inspired a LOT of filmmakers, so it's harder to get a small film noticed- yet I'm still inspired by the likes of Gareth Edwards, and, hopefullly, a good percentage of the members of this forum. So... it's Saturday - turn off the computer and go shoot those pickup shots! I'm waiting to be inspired...
 
Blade Runner was a huge influence, of course, and one of the top ten of all time like Ben Hur is. But I was already shooting TV commercials when that came out and knew where I was headed. Other earlier influences were Roshomon and Woman of the dunes - B&W Japanese cinema - awesome stuff.
 
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why I want to make movies

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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), went to see it 5 times in 10 days when I was nine, the first time with my friends, the four other times I went alone and told nobody, it was a drug to me, I needed to relive and experience the story again and again.

When the film was finally released on VHS for the first time on October 27th 1988, It had been announced 6+ months in advance, the longest wait ever in my life (untill the waits for RED ONE and Epic-M)
 
There were three movies that I saw all at the same time and that's the reason I went into filmmaking.

Bad Taste
Evil Dead 2
There's Nothing Out there
 
When I was a child, I used to go to the local movie theatre called the Fortway. So many movies from that time influenced me. I remember being five years old and actually watching the filming of Saturday Night Fever all over my neighborhood. I was so fascinated to actually see the process of movie making. Then I saw the finished product at the Fortway theatre. I was hooked. That movie is very nostalgic for me in that respect. But the movie that truly hooked me was John Carpenter's "The Thing". It had everything - Horror, Sci-Fi, Suspense, Thriller. I believe I was 11 when the movie came out. It was easier at that age to escape into a movie. And that one got me good. The fact that they were so isolated in the movie was the driving force for me. I believe the sfx work for it's time still hold up very well.
 
Aliens
1941 (for seriously)
Blade Runner
Star Trek II
 
Richard Foster said:
Woman of the dunes - B&W Japanese cinema - awesome stuff.
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I can't actually find the right words of praise for that film.

Like others, there were stages. Bladerunner was the first without a doubt. Alien second, Lost Highway taught me that not all films speak the same language.

I watched Stalker one day and then had to watch all of Tarkovsky's films in succession over the course of a week. It changed me. I did the same with Kieslowski's films.

Rififi, Casablanca, The Big Combo, Soy Cuba, Chinatown, Chungking Express.

My main love was always Film Noir and French New Wave.

Bladerunner was the first film I ever saw and it still influences me today, it has had a great impact in my life. I grew up in the late seventies and eighties in a house without a television. My mother is an artist and my stepfather was a writer and photographer. They didn't like television and encouraged me to grow through writing, art and photography (I was lucky enough to grow up in a house with a fully installed darkroom, surrounded by cameras and can proudly say I had a spread published in Practical Photography Magazine when I about 8-ish - In fact I still have my Olympus OM-1). When I say we didn't have a television that is to say we had a small black and white 15" television which was kept in the attic (mainly due to the fact that my parents did not have a license for it, as it was never used). It was brought down one day because my stepfather wanted to watch a film. It was on at about 11pm and we (myself and my older brother) managed to convince my mum to let us watch it, on the proviso we went to bed for a few hours to rest. I think I was about 8-9 years old. I remember being so excited at the prospect that it was obviously impossible to sleep. When the time came I remember sitting on the floor a few feet away from the screen and being mesmerised for the entire time. I've never forgotten that day.

I'm sure some would say I'm overcompensating for the years without cinematic stimulation.
 
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