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Which movie turned you into a film maker

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I was just reading the off topics and saw one post said that, after he saw "Eraserhead" and that turned him into a film maker.

So the question is - have you ever seen one movie that make you want to be a film maker? This is nothing to do with which one is better or taste or whatever (so don't start arguing :) )

Mine is - (1985) Ran by Akira Kurosawa

I was lucky enough to see this in the cinema on it's last day! I was 15 that time. I still remember it was a rainy day and turned into a tropical storm the next day. I think my mind was more or less in the same state (after I saw the movie) like the weather at that time.
 
Radiers of the Lost Ark.

I saw this film 15 times in two weeks, and it still effects my choice of shot and story structure.

I can still remember how clearly I loved that film.
 
3 things got me into computer graphics. Which priqued my interest in film making. But it was making my own movie freshman year of highschool for a class project that made me realize that I enjoyed cameras a lot more than computers.

For VFX:

Star Wars a New Hope. Seeing those Xwings fly to towards the deathstar. Opening cinematic for Mechwarrior 2 (1996) and Cave Dog's Total Annihilation
 
Star Wars was a big influence for me. But I think it was a lot of the classic Sci-Fi works like "The Day the Earth Stood Still" and the original runs of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek.

That said, I'm not really a "filmmaker". The closest I've come is animation work in the game industry for a time. I spend most my days with RED doing corporate work, FX and motion graphics pieces, etc.. I do narrative filmmaking about once a year or whenever I get a chance to screw around with such a thing. ...The last attempt ended in failure.
 
Funny enough "Sahara" with Humphrey Bogart. I was almost 5 years old and I saw it on video (my dad had taped it for me to see during the day). Suddenly when I was watching I realized that they taped one person talking and then the other one. When they put it together it looked as if they talked to each other. I then knew I wanted to be the one who fooled people into believing they wanted to be like Humphrey Bogart. I walked into the kitchen and told my mom I knew what i wanted to be when I grew up - a director.
 
Not a movie but a TV show... The Three Stooges. :shifty:

I was about 6 watching Curly Larry and Moe when I first realized that there was a behind the scenes aspect to TV. I found it very interesting. Many movies put together inspired me to take the leap.
 
Evil Dead 2.

Watched it on TV when I was about 14, and for the first time realized how a film reflects the director's personal creative vision. (The auteur theory!)
 
Blow up.

"I am in Paris"

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo
 
"The Searchers" (John Ford) and "La Aventura" (Antonioni)
 
Initially, I think

Don't Look Now. Really terrified me.

But also, and lately,

Antonioni - The Passenger, Blow Up.
 
For me, it wasn't any one movie that made me want to be a filmmaker, it was being able to tell stories how I envisioned it in my mind. Being able to replay something over and over over again exactly as I saw it the first time made me want to become a storyteller.

My favorite thing was when my little brother and I were in the driveway with this Lizard he had just caught. He was playing with it, it was the last day of school/first afternoon of summer between 7th and 8th grade. I went inside, and grabbed a little mini DV RCA camera and started to roll on my brother. I told him to hold the lizard up to the camera, then to his nose and SNAP, it bit him he shook his head and it flew off. It was great being able to laugh about it over and over again all summer long. Being able to have that reference on the screen and show it to my friends and see their reaction was magical. That sense of realism being created on screen made me want to be a filmmaker.
 
Watching films always made me just want to be a filmmaker, E.T. was watched numerous times, along with Indiana Jones.

What really changed my mind was when I hired to be an extra on Sleepers, directed by Barry Levinson. Being on that film set when I was 11 made up my mind, seeing Kevin Bacon and the late Brad Renfro was awesome. The whole process of shooting a scene has been burned into my brain.

My parents noticed my interest. I played with the family camcorder making films with toys and my mom and dad eventually bought me my first cam and I started making more complex movies...I love this industry.
 
Stand by me really wanted me to know more about the whole process
 
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