ray245 wrote:I tried to distinguish the difference between an excellent production crew and an average crew, but the process make it hard for me to enjoy the movie.
For one, I couldn't what's the big deal about getting a good sound system.
The quality of the sound system isn't a big deal. What's a big deal is, for example, the choice of music. Again, think about
Star Wars. Try watching it while listening closely to the music. I assume you've seen it enough times that it's not hard to follow the plot or the dialogue, so you should have some attention to spare for that.
Listen to what
kind of music is played at what moments, what emotions it inspires in the listener. John Williams worked very hard on that soundtrack, and it contributed to the success of the movie in a big way. Good music (like the stuff in
Star Wars acts as a subliminal cue to the viewer of how they should feel about certain scenes. Bad music hurts that and takes away from the movie.
For example, the "
Imperial March" conveys that sense of the Empire in general or Vader in particular as a big, dangerous, military machine that is quite prepared to stomp all over you. It's exactly the kind of music you'd expect to hear watching troops march past a reviewing stand in a totalitarian dictatorship, for instance. When you hear it played, while Imperial troops are assembled or star destroyers are cruising through space, it adds to the feeling that these guys are dangerous, that they are organized (it's a "big" orchestral theme), and so on.
Likewise, we have "
Duel of the Fates", from the prequel trilogy, which played during the duel between Darth Maul, Qui-Gon, and Obi-Wan in
The Phantom Menace under the royal palace in Naboo.
Now, try watching a scene from Star Wars where one of those songs is being played in the background... but imagine the music from the Mos Eisley Cantina being played instead of those two tracks. It would be ridiculous; the out of place music would make what you saw on the screen look like a comedy. Even if nothing else changed, replacing Darth Vader's theme song with something like "
Cantina Band" would make the character utterly absurd and foolish. You could completely warp one of the pivotal characters of the movie with that song, without touching the plot or the script.
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A lot of this stuff only becomes clear if you're specifically looking for it, or if you're watching the movie a second time, of course. But it's out there, and it has a lot to do with the difference between good and bad movies. Making a fetish out of the plot at the expense of the
art that goes into creating a movie is a mistake, because it's much easier to generate good plots than it is to make them into good movies.
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- PeZook
