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Twin Peaks (1991) dir. David Lynch @Reddscope 🖕

During the filming of Dexter's fourth season,Michael C Hall was privately battling Cancer. He was filmed while in treatment,wearing a wig to maintain the character. @ReddScope 🖕

Brad pitt is obsessed with Architecture. Long before he became a producer,brad pitt was already studying buildings. He worked with Frank Gehry, one of the most influential architects alive, helped design experimental housing projects. Pitt once said architecture shapes how people behave more than movies. @ReddScope 🖕

In 2004, Quentin Tarantino arrived in Moscow for the presentation of Kill Bill: Vol. 2. His first request after landing wasn’t a hotel or a red carpet. It was to visit the grave of Boris Pasternak in Peredelkino.

Tarantino did go there. Sat for a long time on the grass by the grave,leaning againt the monument. And then he said that he wanted at least to get a little closer to the man who had such an influence on him.that he knows all of Pasternak's poems since childhood. @ReddScope 🖕

I mean look at the resemblance @ReddScope

I found it! The Elijah Woods interview. I thought this guy played spiderman these whole time😂 @ReddScope🖕

Amblin(1968) was an independent short film, about a young man traveling cross-country and falling for a free-spirited woman. The film doesn’t have any sound other than the music. Sound gear in the 1950s was expensive and very technical. Recording a dialogue was almost impossible. You needed separate audio recorders, mixers, and someone who knew how to use them. It is still one of my favorite short film. I don’t think I would like it as much as I do now if it had a dialogue. The absence of dialogue forces you to look, really look. Every gesture, every expression, every movement becomes amplified. You notice the little things, the tilt of the head, the pause, the way a character reacts to the environment. Without words, your brain fills in the story, and suddenly you’re more engaged than if someone were narrating everything for you. @ReddScope 🖕

By the time Steven Spielberg reached highschool, he exactly knew what he wanted. Film school at the USC.The place where future Hollywood directors are made, where acceptance felt like a ticket into another world. He applied, waited and then got rejected. Applied again, another rejection. A third attempt followed, rejection again. Most people would have taken that as an answer, Spielberg didn’t. He snuck on to the Universal Studios backlot,found an empty office and put his name on the door and sat there, day after day thinking he belonged. Universal Studios in the 1950s was a semi open workplace,If you look like you had a reason to be there,you usually were. Speilberg wore a suit and tie, carried himself like staff and didn’t act lost. That was enough. He studied the environment, watched how movies were made.No one thought a teenager watching from a corner could become a major figure of the new Hollywood era. Eventually, his persistence paid off. A short film he made caught the attention of executives. They were impressed by his storytelling, camera work, and sense of movement. It was called Amblin. Spielberg made it at the age of 21. Universal then offered him a seven-year contract as a director, making him one of the youngest directors under contract at the time. @ReddScope🖕

In early Hollywood,violence was tightly controlled. You couldn’t show excessive blood, you couldn’t glorify criminals. If someone pulled out a gun it meant something bad was coming. Gunshots were quick, death happened off screen. Its not because filmmakers lacked imagination but because violence wasn’t the point. In Psycho(1960) you never actually see the knife enter the body. It’s editing, sound,imagination and yet it feels brutal. Because early cinema understood a powerful truth. What you don’t show can be more disturbing than what you do.  By the late 1960s, the rules started breaking. Audiences were changing, the world was changing. Vietnam’s war,civil unrest brought real violence into our living rooms through Television. Movies responded. Bonnie and Clyde showed criminals bleeding, The Wild Bunch turned gunfights into slow motion ballets of death. Violence became messy, chaotic,uncomfortable. This wasn’t fun violence. It was meant to make you feel sick. Then came the 1970s. films like Taxi Driver, The French Connection and A Clockwork Orange exaggerated it. Violence became psychological,a symptom of society breaking down. You weren’t supposed to cheer. You were supposed to feel disturbed. But something else was quietly happening… In 1992, Reservoir Dogs arrived. And suddenly, Violence wasn’t just violent. It was cool. A man gets his ear cutoff and the camera pans away from him and “Stuck in the middle with you” plays in the background while Mr. Blonde is dancing to it. That choice changed everything. Tarantino understood cinems’s past better than almost anyone. But instead of rejecting old violence, he remixed it. He took exploitation films,kung-fu movies,spaghetti westerns, grindhouse cinema and filtered them through pop culture, irony and dialogue. In Pulp Fiction, people get shot mid sentence, blood splatters unexpectedly and moments of extreme violence sit right next to jokes. You laugh then you feel uncomfortable for laughing, That was new. After Tarantino, Violence stopped being purely moral or tragic. It became stylized self aware, cinematic. Blood wasn’t just blood it was visual texture. Gunshots weren’t just loud. They were rhythmic. Filmmakers realized violence could be fun again. Soon, Slow motion returned, sound design got punchier, camera movement became aggressive. Violence became choreography like a dance. And audiences loved it. @ReddScope

He took exploitation films,kung-fu movies,spaghetti westerns, grindhouse cinema and filtered them through pop culture, irony and dialogue. In Pulp Fiction, people get shot mid sentence, blood splatters unexpectedly and moments of extreme violence sit right next to jokes. You laugh then you feel uncomfortable for laughing, That was new. After Tarantino, Violence stopped being purely moral or tragic. It became stylized self aware, cinematic. Blood wasn’t just blood it was visual texture. Gunshots weren’t just loud. They were rhythmic. Filmmakers realized violence could be fun again. Soon, Slow motion returned, sound design got punchier, camera movement became aggressive. Violence became choreography like a dance. And audiences loved it. @ReddScope

In early Hollywood,violence was tightly controlled. You couldn’t show excessive blood, you couldn’t glorify criminals. If someone pulled out a gun it meant something bad was coming. Gunshots were quick, death happened off screen. Its not because filmmakers lacked imagination but because violence wasn’t the point. In Psycho(1960) you never actually see the knife enter the body. It’s editing, sound,imagination and yet it feels brutal. Because early cinema understood a powerful truth. What you don’t show can be more disturbing than what you do.  By the late 1960s, the rules started breaking. Audiences were changing, the world was changing. Vietnam’s war,civil unrest brought real violence into our living rooms through Television. Movies responded. Bonnie and Clyde showed criminals bleeding, The Wild Bunch turned gunfights into slow motion ballets of death. Violence became messy, chaotic,uncomfortable. This wasn’t fun violence. It was meant to make you feel sick. Then came the 1970s. films like Taxi Driver, The French Connection and A Clockwork Orange exaggerated it. Violence became psychological,a symptom of society breaking down. You weren’t supposed to cheer. You were supposed to feel disturbed. But something else was quietly happening… In 1992, Reservoir Dogs arrived. And suddenly, Violence wasn’t just violent. It was cool. A man gets his ear cutoff and the camera pans away from him and “Stuck in the middle with you” plays in the background while Mr. Blonde is dancing to it. That choice changed everything. Tarantino understood cinems’s past better than almost anyone. But instead of rejecting old violence, he remixed it. He took exploitation films,kung-fu movies,spaghetti westerns, grindhouse cinema and filtered them through pop culture, irony and dialogue. In Pulp Fiction, people get shot mid sentence, blood splatters unexpectedly and moments of extreme violence sit right next to jokes. You laugh then you feel uncomfortable for laughing, That was new. After Tarantino, Violence stopped being purely moral or tragic. It became stylized self aware, cinematic. Blood wasn’t just blood it was visual texture. Gunshots weren’t just loud. They were rhythmic. Filmmakers realized violence could be fun again. Soon, Slow motion returned, sound design got punchier, camera movement became aggressive. Violence became choreography like a dance. And audiences loved it. @ReddScopeIn early Hollywood,violence was tightly controlled. You couldn’t show excessive blood, you couldn’t glorify criminals. If someone pulled out a gun it meant something bad was coming. Gunshots were quick, death happened off screen. Its not because filmmakers lacked imagination but because violence wasn’t the point. In Psycho(1960) you never actually see the knife enter the body. It’s editing, sound,imagination and yet it feels brutal. Because early cinema understood a powerful truth. What you don’t show can be more disturbing than what you do.  By the late 1960s, the rules started breaking. Audiences were changing, the world was changing. Vietnam’s war,civil unrest brought real violence into our living rooms through Television. Movies responded. Bonnie and Clyde showed criminals bleeding, The Wild Bunch turned gunfights into slow motion ballets of death. Violence became messy, chaotic,uncomfortable. This wasn’t fun violence. It was meant to make you feel sick. Then came the 1970s. films like Taxi Driver, The French Connection and A Clockwork Orange exaggerated it. Violence became psychological,a symptom of society breaking down. You weren’t supposed to cheer. You were supposed to feel disturbed. But something else was quietly happening… In 1992, Reservoir Dogs arrived. And suddenly, Violence wasn’t just violent. It was cool. A man gets his ear cutoff and the camera pans away from him and “Stuck in the middle with you” plays in the background while Mr. Blonde is dancing to it. That choice changed everything. Tarantino understood cinems’s past better than almost anyone. But instead of rejecting old violence, he remixed it.

you ever noticed how violence in movies feels different now? Its not like it got more common, or  became bloodier or louder. But different.. It became stylish, entertaining sometimes even funny. But it wasn’t always like this. For most of cinema’s history, violence wasn’t meant to entertain you. It was meant to warn you ,shock you or to stay completely off screen. So how did we go from cutting camera before a violent impact to slow motion gunfights, exploding bloods, brutal sword fights and audience cheering it up? The answer lies on how cinema evolved and how one filmmaker changed the perspective. @ReddScope