Time Travel

Back to the future was 25 years old exactly yesterday (look at the time code in the DeLorean at Twin Pines Mall in the beginning of the film). This is my favorite film ever. I have watched it loads of times but the next time i will watch it for the technical aspects such as lighting, sound scene construction. I am not a big fan of art house movies but this BA has caused me to look at some. The absence of any coherent (in my opinion) story lets you see the film for its aesthetics.

This same degree of detail of mise-en-scene is present in main stream film making and this is something i will be exploring over the next few weeks by looking at the "making of docs" on DVDs and watching some of my favorite films with the Directors Comments turned on, something i have never done!

I have been steadily looking at films in this more technical way, I hope it doesn't stop me from watching a film purely for entertainment!

I have watched a few films this last week that have a Time and Memory theme. I particularly like the way the new Star Trek film uses time as away to delete all the other films! I'm not sure about the Sands of Time as a film but the idea of going back to the start of the movie interested me, you could almost watch the film on a loop if the ending was edited differently.

Time Travel does seam to be a difficult subject to show on film, there are numerous plot holes to fall into, such as why does the second Terminator go back to a later date? or why isn't Kyle Reece's first thought to buy a lottery ticket!