For the writers on Veeky Forums, have any of you been influenced by filmmakers? It's usually the other way around...

For the writers on Veeky Forums, have any of you been influenced by filmmakers? It's usually the other way around, that filmmakers look to literature for inspiration. But pic related (Kubrick) definitely influenced my views on how to pace a story and how much complexity and depth you can (and should) pack into a single scene. He was one of the best artists of the 20th century - made at least 5 great movies (Dr. Strangelove, 2001, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut).

>But pic related (Kubrick) definitely influenced my views on how to pace a story and how much complexity and depth you can (and should) pack into a single scene.

I don't understand how you can draw this comparison, since film and written word are utterly distinct media. A "scene" in a book is not defined in the same way that a scene in a film is.

Stories are stories, whether they are pictures, moving pictures or letters. Even music works.

I've haven't been influenced by any filmmaker (or writer) too much to name anyone but I am getting a bit inspiration from any work of art I experience.

Any reason you skipped Clockwork? It's pretty cool how Stanley played around with the tone to make a disgusting protagonist much more likeable than Burgess managed.

There isn't even an universal definition for scene in a book, so one can use the movie making (script writing) one.

this is like saying that a novelist couldn't be influenced by Shakespeare or other playwrights. Obviously there are some important changes in the mediums but there are some constants across as well. Of course filmmakers will never really influence your prose, but what I was getting at with the post is more general things, like imagery, characterization, pace, etc.
I don't know about Clockwork. I thought Burgess' novel was better. But maybe I'll change my mind on future viewings.

I'm seriously influenced by one anime series and will defend it until the other leaves to masturbate, every time, even if I have to be the cause of their arousal.

Terrence Malick has been a pretty huge inspiration just to get me to write. Whenever I watch Tree of Life I want to write a 800 page postmodern novel

Anything other than Monster and I'm disappointed.

If a writer hasn't been influenced by movies, then they watch bad movies. Watch some real kino: Bergman, Tarkovsky, Lynch, ect. The power of imagery like that can't help but spark something creative in you.

Monster is absolute garbage for children.

so is all anime, so what's your point

Then how about you tell us so we can laugh at you and be done with it?

>slow, involved plot (with zero supernatural events) revolving around well articulated themes of moral philosophy
>for children
>literally from a medium of cartoons where high schoolers pilot mech warriors to kill aliens
kek

I agree with you, but find Tarkovsky intolerable. Christ I tried to get through Andrei Rublev twice and found it the dreariest thing ever at 4 hours...His adaptation of Solaris is only pretty good.

I agree with you, but find Tarkovsky intolerable. I tried to get through Andrei Rublev twice and found it the dreariest thing ever at 4 hours...His adaptation of Solaris is only pretty good.

I love Malick, but even though other filmmakers make me want to write, he doesn’t. His films are just too beautiful, with a certain tone and feel, where just the thought of trying to write something inspired by that, makes me certain I’ll hate it

Stalker is one of my favorite movies, can't recommend it enough. The Mirror is also fantastic. Andrei Rublev is one of the few of his I haven't seen; but I can understand how he turns some people off. Very slow, long, movies that wont hold your hand.

I started my Tarkovsky experience with The Sacrifice and Solaris and didn't get much out of either, but I absolutely loved Rublev

Evangelion?

t. russaboo realist
>moral philosophy
For children
The best series is actually a middle schooler killing aliens and explaining it to you would amount to explaining anything complex to you idiots: like herding cats if the cats had the downs.
Don't make me gag, please.

Hm, I would be inclinced to think that someone who likes something like Solaris would easily be able to sit through Andrei Rublev

I feel the same way about Tarkovsky.

If you haven't seen his work, look him up. He was the Soviet's answer to Kubrick. Very similar artists, except Tarkovsky was able to leverage the USSR socialist film board for their funds so his films never had to cater to the demands of capitalism. Made for very grim, slow moving, but deeply, deeply affecting stories. To me he's number 1, before Kubby.

Start with The Mirror.