"....all this is so humbug....!!".
Remember these conversations you would have with people around or even with yourself while watching something obviously irrational in a movie?
A very basic example that comes to mind is the done to death sequence from Hindi films of '80s where 'The Hero' is never hit even though the villain gang has sharp shooters with the latest guns to their disposal even as 'The Hero' with hardly so much as a revolver is able to exactly target all of the villain gang - not to mention he is also able to protect and save his lady love or mother or sister or money or whatever there is that he is trying to protect from the villain gang
We have moved on largely from those kind of formulaic "action & family drama & Romance & comedy" films.. Of course, they have been replaced by another kind of formulaic films about mushy love stories, family dramas, leave-your-brains-at-home comedies, meant-for-NRI-movies. Even then, that's not the problem I have with story tellers. Let them be as formulaic as they want to be, let the stories be repetitive and let the formula live on forever. No worries. Problem is sometimes films have impossible to explain moments. Read on.
Am sure all of us have many times felt at wits' end trying to fathom the logic or reasoning behind some actions or non actions of characters in films. Fact is, the story teller, (supported by his entire creative team from pre production, production to post production) sometimes, chooses to make the characters do things which are logically inexplicable only for the sake of taking the story forward. In bad films, this done in an obvious manner, while even the leading film makers do it subtly in their good & successful films.
Funnily enough, sometimes the all important twist in the tale is brought about in the movies and the story is taken forward by resting on the shoulders of such irrational actions which the poor characters are made to do.
and this my dear reader is an insult to our intelligence.. where the people making the film choose to screw logic to get the story moving. In other words, these are the moments / scenes in our films where the story tellers choose to shoot the brain - or as the classic song from the film Satya goes.. Goli maar bheje mein, (kyunki) bheja shor karta hai!!!
Will start discussing the specific instances from the next post..
Remember these conversations you would have with people around or even with yourself while watching something obviously irrational in a movie?
A very basic example that comes to mind is the done to death sequence from Hindi films of '80s where 'The Hero' is never hit even though the villain gang has sharp shooters with the latest guns to their disposal even as 'The Hero' with hardly so much as a revolver is able to exactly target all of the villain gang - not to mention he is also able to protect and save his lady love or mother or sister or money or whatever there is that he is trying to protect from the villain gang
We have moved on largely from those kind of formulaic "action & family drama & Romance & comedy" films.. Of course, they have been replaced by another kind of formulaic films about mushy love stories, family dramas, leave-your-brains-at-home comedies, meant-for-NRI-movies. Even then, that's not the problem I have with story tellers. Let them be as formulaic as they want to be, let the stories be repetitive and let the formula live on forever. No worries. Problem is sometimes films have impossible to explain moments. Read on.
Am sure all of us have many times felt at wits' end trying to fathom the logic or reasoning behind some actions or non actions of characters in films. Fact is, the story teller, (supported by his entire creative team from pre production, production to post production) sometimes, chooses to make the characters do things which are logically inexplicable only for the sake of taking the story forward. In bad films, this done in an obvious manner, while even the leading film makers do it subtly in their good & successful films.
Funnily enough, sometimes the all important twist in the tale is brought about in the movies and the story is taken forward by resting on the shoulders of such irrational actions which the poor characters are made to do.
and this my dear reader is an insult to our intelligence.. where the people making the film choose to screw logic to get the story moving. In other words, these are the moments / scenes in our films where the story tellers choose to shoot the brain - or as the classic song from the film Satya goes.. Goli maar bheje mein, (kyunki) bheja shor karta hai!!!
Will start discussing the specific instances from the next post..
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