To get from the early days of cinema – scenes of workers leaving a factory – to astronauts spinning in space, it took the vision and creativity of a whole slew of engineers, inventors, cinematographers, directors, screenwriters and actors. Here are 5 films that changed everything we know about movies.
Subscribe http://bit.ly/1AWgeM7
Twitter https://twitter.com/HowStuffWorks
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HowStuffWorks
Google+ https://plus.google.com/+howstuffworks
Website http://www.howstuffworks.com
Watch More https://www.youtube.com/HowStuffWorks
Article:
http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/10-films-changed-filmmaking.htm
Music:
“Time to Move and Motivate” by The Insider
Attributions:
The Horse in Motion (Eadward Muybridge, 1878)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqccPhsqgA
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (Louis Lumière, 1895)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_loB3H6osbI
Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxaefqC-k90
The Untouchables (Brian De Palma, 1987)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJpRSf4q-hI
The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland, 1927)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22NQuPrwbHA
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNaDrnxp3L0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGbqRWwC_Q
Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS_7V9mig6w
The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgMBbtn6ZOg
Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese, 1990)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeSnzKZvxNE
8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TsElhgMeXE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwwSZHWQxGY
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0PbwLTLKA4
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Terry Gilliam, 1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOmtVFQ3WF8
Requiem for a Dream (Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d4WkQci7zw
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3et9liRrywY
Transcript:
1. ‘Battleship Potemkin’ (1925) Who says propaganda is a bad thing? The silent movie tells the tale of a 1905 uprising in which Russian sailors thwart tyranny aboard a ship, only to be laid to waste when heavy-handed Cossacks come looking for retribution. Sergey Eisenstein, the director of this five act story, was one of the first directors to use montage – editing a series of shots into one sequence – as he captured the climactic destruction that occurs when the Cossack forces invade the town, weaving together the fates of various townspeople and one very unlucky baby in a carriage.
2. ‘The Jazz Singer’ (1927) “The Jazz Singer” was the first film to break cinema’s sound barrier, charting new ground by adding spoken dialogue to a movie production. That breakthrough was good enough to earn the movie the first honorary Academy Award for technical achievement. Warner Bros. Studios used what was then a spanking-new technology called Vitaphone. The sound-on-disc system required a projectionist to sync film reels to a phonograph record to play recorded dialogue and tunes. It was an unsteady, but very important, first step. Although Vitaphone and similar technologies were soon replaced by sound-on-film processes, it continued to be used for Looney Tunes and other cartoon pictures throughout the 1940s
3 ‘Citizen Kane’ (1941) Often at the top of lists for the best movies ever made, “Citizen Kane” tells the tale of a publishing tycoon’s ill-fated quest for glory. Also, something about a rosebud … well, that’s spoiler territory, I guess. The movie’s central figure is an approximation of real-life media giant William Randolph Hearst. Orson Welles directed and starred in this masterpiece. He embraced a time-distorted narrative, used lighting to capture mood and relied on deep focus shots – in which the entire frame of each shot remains in focus at all times – to let viewers search the screen for the answer to the “rosebud” riddle.
4. ‘Breathless’ (1960) Jean-Luc Godard’s story of an outlaw and his love interest on the move is best known among cinephiles for its extensive use of jump cut editing. Godard used multiple shots of the same subject from slightly different angles to express the passage of time. The technique also gives the film an edgy, jagged feel.
5. ‘8 ½’ (1963) In this film, Federico Fellini tells the story of a harried director who’s having some trouble getting his latest project on course. He uses a surreal series of dream, fantasy and present-day scenes, leaving the viewers to figure out which is which.
