The Realism Captured by Great Films
Great films are able to catch the viewers attention and create an emotional pull to the plot and characters. Sometimes the feelings are conflicted. You watch the film knowing there will be a showdown between good and evil, and yet you secretly harbor some empathy for the villain. As producer Heather Parry knows, making a quality is movie is about balancing the real with the imagined. It’s about creating a moment where illusion comes close to reality, but still remains just far enough away that the viewer is left feeling enriched or entertained. Sadly, the realities of life can’t always be ignored. For instance, consider some of the greatest films based on true stories that still can’t compare to the stunning details of reality.
1. Schindler’s List
Perhaps one of the most disturbingly accurate true story films about the Holocaust was Schindler’s List. Unless one has read the historical …
Stu Shepherd is a fast talking, fast moving publicist whose only mission in life is to make the fastest buck that he can. And he’ll do it without too many scruples about who he hurts along the best way. He’s the worst type of ordinary man – strange in the sense that he is no crook, but he is deceitful and vain. And he is additionally messing his wife about, regularly flirting with an actress-shopper, neither spouse nor would-be girlfriend conscious of one another. Stu really is not a character to really feel a lot of sympathy for, and on condition that it is a movie, it’s possible you’ll even wish him some violent come-uppance. But if this was actual life, you would not wish him dead. The premise in this film is that someone decides to teach him a harsh lesson – somebody malevolent and psychotic.