Scott D S
Supporting Actor
Okay, this might not be the right section to post in but I digress.
I can't help but feel like I'm a complete fraud when it comes to film. I'm only 20 and I know I have a lifetime of film-watching and learning ahead of me but I also want to be a filmmaker (writer/director - more on that later) and I'm really starting to think I'm nothing more than a novice, a wannabe. Everyone I know calls me "the film guy" and I'm really interested in the medium but I think I have a world of work ahead of me. For example:
-I have seen only 2 westerns (Maverick with Mel Gibson and The Magnificent Seven)
-I haven't seen any of the Fox Classics (except for The Day the Earth Stood Still)
-I haven't seen any silent films
-I haven't seen any of the classic Universal horror films
-I've only seen 6 Hitchcock films (Shadow of a Doubt, Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Rear Window)
-I've only seen 1 Fellini film (Amarcord - I got a kick out of it!)
-I've seen only 1 Truffaut film (The 400 Blows)
-I've seen only 2 Jimmy Stewart films (Rear Window and Vertigo)
-I've seen only 1 John Wayne film (Sands of Iwo Jima)
-I've seen only 1 Billy Wilder film (Double Indemnity)
-I've seen 0 Bergman films
-I've seen 0 Bogart films
-I've seen only 1 Katherine Hepburn film (Bringing up baby which I hated)
-I've seen only 1 Audrey Hepburn film (My Fair Lady)
-I've seen 0 Preston Sturges films
-I've seen only 2 David Lean films (Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai which I thought was great)
-I've seen only 2 John Sturges films (Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape)
-I've seen only 3 Scorsese films (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Cape Fear)
On the other hand, I've seen:
-All of Kubrick's WB-owned films (except for Barry Lyndon)
-All of Kevin Smith's films
-All of Woody Allen's films (except for What's Up, Tiger Lily?, September, and Another Woman)
-All of the Marx Brothers' films
-Closely Watched Trains
-Rififi (thanks to Bill Hunt's review at the Bits)
-Big Deal on Madonna Street
-Harold and Maude
-All of Tim Burton's films
-All of James Cameron's films (except for Piranha 2)
-West Side Story (but not The Sound of Music)
-All of the Star Trek/Wars films
-Alien and Aliens
-Rashomon
-Time After Time
-The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
-It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
-Patton
-Buckaroo Bonzai
-Office Space
Everytime I tell my co-workers that I haven't seen title X or Y, they are shocked. I appreciate that they think I know everything (I don't) and I shouldn't care what they think but I do take it personally. On the other hand, I'm probably the only person in the 561 area code that has ever heard of Rififi.
As for my own work, I haven't touched a camcorder or camera in years. I've had some serious self-esteem issues in the past (which necessitated visits with shrinks) and I never had any friends half-way interested in film or filmmaking (I have a few now). Money was also an issue. I asked my parents if they would help fund a short film (or full-length) and their answer was "No!" I'm working on 3 scripts right now and I think I'm doing okay. (I figured I could focus on character and plot and dialogue versus composition and lighting.) We'll see what happens.
Thanks for listening to my non-sensical ramblings.
I can't help but feel like I'm a complete fraud when it comes to film. I'm only 20 and I know I have a lifetime of film-watching and learning ahead of me but I also want to be a filmmaker (writer/director - more on that later) and I'm really starting to think I'm nothing more than a novice, a wannabe. Everyone I know calls me "the film guy" and I'm really interested in the medium but I think I have a world of work ahead of me. For example:
-I have seen only 2 westerns (Maverick with Mel Gibson and The Magnificent Seven)
-I haven't seen any of the Fox Classics (except for The Day the Earth Stood Still)
-I haven't seen any silent films
-I haven't seen any of the classic Universal horror films
-I've only seen 6 Hitchcock films (Shadow of a Doubt, Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, North by Northwest, and Rear Window)
-I've only seen 1 Fellini film (Amarcord - I got a kick out of it!)
-I've seen only 1 Truffaut film (The 400 Blows)
-I've seen only 2 Jimmy Stewart films (Rear Window and Vertigo)
-I've seen only 1 John Wayne film (Sands of Iwo Jima)
-I've seen only 1 Billy Wilder film (Double Indemnity)
-I've seen 0 Bergman films
-I've seen 0 Bogart films
-I've seen only 1 Katherine Hepburn film (Bringing up baby which I hated)
-I've seen only 1 Audrey Hepburn film (My Fair Lady)
-I've seen 0 Preston Sturges films
-I've seen only 2 David Lean films (Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai which I thought was great)
-I've seen only 2 John Sturges films (Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape)
-I've seen only 3 Scorsese films (Taxi Driver, Goodfellas, and Cape Fear)
On the other hand, I've seen:
-All of Kubrick's WB-owned films (except for Barry Lyndon)
-All of Kevin Smith's films
-All of Woody Allen's films (except for What's Up, Tiger Lily?, September, and Another Woman)
-All of the Marx Brothers' films
-Closely Watched Trains
-Rififi (thanks to Bill Hunt's review at the Bits)
-Big Deal on Madonna Street
-Harold and Maude
-All of Tim Burton's films
-All of James Cameron's films (except for Piranha 2)
-West Side Story (but not The Sound of Music)
-All of the Star Trek/Wars films
-Alien and Aliens
-Rashomon
-Time After Time
-The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming
-It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
-Patton
-Buckaroo Bonzai
-Office Space
Everytime I tell my co-workers that I haven't seen title X or Y, they are shocked. I appreciate that they think I know everything (I don't) and I shouldn't care what they think but I do take it personally. On the other hand, I'm probably the only person in the 561 area code that has ever heard of Rififi.
As for my own work, I haven't touched a camcorder or camera in years. I've had some serious self-esteem issues in the past (which necessitated visits with shrinks) and I never had any friends half-way interested in film or filmmaking (I have a few now). Money was also an issue. I asked my parents if they would help fund a short film (or full-length) and their answer was "No!" I'm working on 3 scripts right now and I think I'm doing okay. (I figured I could focus on character and plot and dialogue versus composition and lighting.) We'll see what happens.
Thanks for listening to my non-sensical ramblings.