Imagination – Episode 15
August 17th, 2009
Come with me, And you’ll be
In a world of Pure imagination
Take a look, And you’ll see
Into your imagination
We’ll begin, With a spin, Traveling in The world of my creation
What we’ll see, Will defy Explanation
If you want to view paradise, Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Want to change the world?
There’s nothing To it
Starting off with the new Peter Jackson movie The Lovely Bones as a hybrid of Revenge (trailer wasn’t available for that episode) and Imagination, before lining up Big Fish (Tim Burton), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry), Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki) and the upcoming Where The Wild Things Are…
Tags: Big Fish, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Hayao Miyazaki, Michel Gondry, Peter Jackson, Pure imagination, Spirited Away, Stylophonics, The Levely Bones, Where the Wild Things are
hi tomas, you’ve got a good imagination!
its a widely range of visions and perceptions and its an essential facility through which people make sense of the world..
i’l reserve my comments after i watch some of those movies..thanks..
Hey Tomas! Very nice topic! Maybe imagination and how we make these figments of the mind to reality are what makes us humans in the first place.
Before it forgets me! Speaking of imagination, you`re saw the first season of the serie “Dexter”? , good it is hallucinating, not the serie of cartoons, the one of the assassin in series interpreted by the skillful Michael Hall. Then good, oh God I do not want to reveal the end to them of the first season but… the scene completes is… never I saw a better, vanguardista end, played, brilliant and lying! The end is a projection of a imagination to the best style publicity than in truth never it passes. If they did not see people it saw! The following seasons are not as good as first that it seems cinema, each filmed chapter is pure perfection. I love Dexter! The soundtrack is amazing too.
Somebody in the middle of a running smile it when seeing me and was wondered to me yesterday if I liked Tim Burton. Not say anything. I ask myself soon if I liked the Tim Burton of “Big fish” or the one of “Beatlejuice”. “Beatlejuice”! it answers without letting to him finish it and I explode in the laughter. Like Michael Gondry, Tim Burton has things that master extremely and other who hatred, for that reason I do not include to any in my list of favorite directors but… they have a seal, they made things that before nobody habia made and that bond. Although Tim Burton sometimes is half basic at the time of filming, I consider an excellent director of art but an excellent director, definitively do not believe that a film with Burton like art director or photograph with a David Fincher or a Darren Aronofsky in direction, serious a film of oh my God!
Last night Can not to sleep thinking about a disturbing idea, that habia crossed to me the mind after already completes time in which it films with actors and me senti terribly frustrated. I always was against using to dolls instead of actors, in the short ones of animation, of stop motion, but I understand now it, is like that to be against… the “terminator”, from fear of which the humans occupy the place of us, in aim perhaps sounds to stupidity, but a doll more as large as your hand does that although the technique is not for far from easy you can have a practically absolute control than it passes in your imagination to the shaped thing finally in image, and in that sense I believe that the consecration of the artist inside can be infinitely superior to obtained with actors of meat and the bone. If Alfred Hitchcock lived he work with Barbies without doubting.
As they say the surrealistic at the time “the art cannot be a textual reflection of the reality, the art must be a super reality”, and I agree completely. Perhaps this type of films of “imagination” qualifies, excuses the way to count and the one that to count but I believe that it is possible to be applied to any type of film, will be it to be applied to any class of film, the cinema will be it to go in that direction, not to be “photographs in movement” like say Hitchcock.
Tomas you forgot “Labyrinth” (1986) with David Bowie ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh My prime tapeworm an obsession with that film, control to be to size made a suit and contract to somebody similarity to David Bowie for its birthday of fifteen ja ja. Which but loves of “Labyrinth” was its dark in the middle of that imagination, not really truly fantastic. I cannot forget the recreation of those planes with the personage of Bowie in the window and the basic barren landscape to me, always dream with thus filming something. Eternal perfection. Although if I pause to think it about cold… it remembers to me to “Alice in Wonderland”.
“Big fish” 1 otter
“Spirited Away” 5 otter (Amazing fil, very very dark!,I love the personage with a mask. that eat people, I disturb all the film I want to remove it from the screen and to bring it with me to house ja ja)
“Eternal sunshine of the spotless Mind” 2 otters (I add 1 to him but by the transitions of take to take that I create it is the best thing of the film)
“Beatlejuice” 5 otters.
“Labyrinth” mmm…4 or 5 otters…? mmm 5 for David! ja ja
Antes de que me olvide!! Hablando de imaginacion, vieron la primer temporada de la serie “Dexter”?, bueno es alucinante, no la de dibujos animados, la del asesino en serie interpretado por el magistral Michael Hall. Pues bueno, oh Dios no quiero revelarles el final de la primera temporada pero… la escena ultima es… nunca vi un final mejor, vanguardista, jugado, genial y mentiroso! El final es una proyeccion de una fantasia al mejor estilo publicidad que en verdad nunca transcurre. Si no lo vieron gente veanlo! Las siguientes temporadas no son tan buenas como la primera que parece cine, cada capitulo filmado es pura perfeccion. I love Dexter! El soundtrack es impresionante tambien.
Ayer alguien en medio de un rodaje se reia al verme y me preguntaba si me gustaba Tim Burton. No respondi. Me pregunto luego si me gustaba el Tim Burton de “Big fish” o el de “Beatlejuice”. “Beatlejuice”! le conteste sin dejarlo terminar y estallo en la risa. Coincidiamos. Al igual que Michael Gondry, Tim Burton tiene cosas que amo sumamente y otras que odio, por eso no incluyo a ninguno en mi lista de directores favoritos pero… tienen un sello, hicieron cosas que antes nadie habia hecho y eso vale. Si bien Tim Burton a veces es medio basico a la hora de filmar, lo considero un excelente director de arte pero no un excelente director, creo que una pelicula con Burton como director de arte o fotografia con un David Fincher o un Darren Aronofsky en direccion, seria definitivamente una pelicula de oh my God!
Anoche no podia dormir pensando en una idea perturbadora, que ya me habia pasado por la cabeza luego de la ultima vez en que filme con actores y me senti terriblemente frustrada. Siempre estuve en contra de utilizar a muñecos en lugar de actores, en los cortos de animacion, de stop motion, pero ahora lo entiendo, es como ese estar en contra de… los “terminator”, por temor a que ocupen el lugar de nosotros los humanos, en fin tal vez suene a estupidez, pero un muñeco del tamaño de tu mano hace que si bien la tecnica no es para nada facil puedas tener un control practicamente absoluto de lo que transcurre en tu imaginacion a lo plasmado finalmente en imagen, y en ese sentido creo que la consagracion del artista internamente puede ser infinitamente superior a la obtenida con actores de carne y hueso. Si Alfred Hitchcock viviera trabajaria con Barbies sin dudar.
Como decian los surrealistas en su momento “el arte no puede ser un reflejo textual de la realidad, el arte debe ser una super realidad”, y coincido completamente. Tal vez este tipo de peliculas de “imaginacion” habiliten, excusen la manera de contar y el que contar pero creo que se puede aplicar a cualquier tipo de pelicula, deberia aplicarse a cualquier clase de pelicula, el cine deberia ir en esa direccion, no ser “fotografias en movimiento” como decia Hitchcock.
Tomas olvidaste “Labyrinth” (1986) con David Bowie ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Mi prima tenia una obsesion con esa pelicula, se mando a hacer un traje a medida y contrato a alguien parecido a David Bowie para su cumpleaños de quince ja ja. No realmente, lo que mas ame de “Laberinto” fue su oscuridad en medio de esa fantasia, verdaderamente fantastica. No puedo olvidarme de la recreacion de esos planos con el personaje de Bowie en la ventana y el paisaje arido de fondo, siempre soñe con filmar algo asi. Eterna perfeccion. Aunque si me detengo a pensarlo en frio…me recuerda a “Alicia en el pais de las maravillas”.
“Big fish” 1 otter
“Spirited Away” 5 otter (Alucinante pelicula, muy oscura. Ame al personaje de la mascara oscuro oscuro!)
“Eternal sunshine of the spotless Mind” 2 otters (le agrego 1 mas por las transiciones de toma a toma que creo es lo mejor de la pelicula)
“Beatlejuice” 5 otters.
“Laberinto” mmm… 4 o 5 Otters? Mmm… 5 por David! Ja ja
“And I can’t get up, from this wet crimson bed that you made for me…”
Dios mis comentarios desubicados ja ja, lo siento no puedo con mi fanatismo. Que buena cancion!
@athenayesha: Looking forward to hearing your thoughts in general about the topic…as well as the movies.
@Reel: Hi! You can line yourself up next to the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge who said “Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception”. I agree with you both since humans are able to create (for better or worse). Keep up the good work on your blog!
@Juli: Dang! I completely forgot Labyrinth form 1986…hahaha. Mea culpa. Good film.
This has to be my favorite episode yet. Loved Big Fish (even if we still get Helena) and Miyazaki is brilliant. My fave is Howl’s Moving Castle. I would have to vote for “What Dreams May Come”. A very creative view of death that had me riveted. Or maybe the romantic in me just likes the idea of eternal love. Thanks for these. I look forward to them every week. I think you can rank yourself as imaginative.
@baxtelf: well it’s either Helen or Johnny
“Howl’s Moving Castle” is a very good choice as a Miyazaki favourite. “What Dreams May Come” is indeed visually striking (made me think of it when selecting the trailer from The Lovely Bones) but just had too much Robin Williams in the recent episodes…shouldn’t really matter but trying to keep the balance. Thanks for labeling me as imaginative…I wish my high school art teacher could read this and apologize to me…hahahha.
@everybody: I really appreciate you thanking me (nothing better than feeling the love) but it’s me who has to thank you guys for taking some time out of your life just to watch me as well as writing insanely motivating comments! (you can’t see it but I am bowing now 179 degress)
179 degress? I can`t understand.
BIG FISH,i find this movie very amusing..the cinematic journey is wonderfully magical..actually i never gave this movie a chance to be watched before until episode 15 came out(poor me)..
The writer and Tim Burton himself creates an incredible imagination and so with the character of the lead actor(Albert Finney and Ewan mcgergor)..they gave ‘justice’ to the role..
The story begins with a man who tattle tales a lot..piece by piece through his imagination he made fancy stories about his amazing adventures in life.. though,some portion of the movie very vague but i guess at least,the whole story leaves a good impression to me(moral values) and definitely i could apply to myself and in general..
my favorite lines in this movie is…..’he talks things that he never did but he did a lot of things that he never talked about’..
Rating time: visually wise 5 otters
story wise 4 otters
thanks..
Tomas! Wheres the trailor? lol
Another well done ep.
Big Fish
5 otters
It was unique film, very different. The way it tells the story is strange, but playful. Alot of imagination went into it.
thats it..
Internal Sunshine
2 otters
im going on what my mate lee said about it, but he doesnt know anything. I reckon it looks good, so its going on the must watch list.
Spirited away
3 otters
Very funny, but the movie itself was really trippy, and i only watched a bit of it.
Big Fish gets the Ocelot of approval today
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