A NOTE ON IDEAS AND MEANS OF ITS REALIZATION

THE IDEA

  

  When you read about another new film you often see: "I wanted to show what people like my main hero feel".  I think there's a danger in making the "what it's like" option leading in the film. A danger of cheaping your film. And what's the point in bringing on screen cheap ideas? Profit? But if you make something eternal, you'll get much more profit and fame and love in years and years after the release, not just this season. 

   So, I wish filmmakers weren't afraid to show big ideas in films. The special ideas. Unusual truth of life. For example, Tackeray's "Vanity Fair". You can make accent on the idea how hard the life was back then. Especially woman's life (either with or without social status) and how ridiculous is this title following. But isn't it a story about the importance of following your goals, seeing things and people objectilely, importance of trying to make your life better (especially if you don't have the benefits that everybody else have)? Doesn't Tackeray hide a fine irony between the lines about the similarity of  all this vanity fair and following stupid (false) virtue, mythical feelings and ideals?

THE MEANS OF REALIZATION

    Everything that we see in the frame is a realization of the big idea that you put in your film. So, what is the best location for the dialogue of your characters? The bar? The park? Or maybe, apartment? Whatever it is, the most important thing is not to make it look like a standard, "real" apartment or bar. Because everything that we see influents on our impression from this dialogue and the whole film and it's idea. So, not only people, everything should have it's character (or express human's character), should act - walls, tables, chairs, sky... The best films of all times are made with such principle. Remember Holly Gollightly's apartment in "Breakfast at Tiffany's". If you don't do this - whatever is around, even if it's super-expressive, if it doesn't express your big idea - it's just the space, filled with dead things. And, (the worst and the most frequent thing that happens to films) deathly boring.