In film school

>in film school
>introductory class
>lecturer is going around asking random people their favourite films
>everyone saying pseudo-intellectual art house bull
>he points me out
>I say conan the barbarian
>a million gasps fill the hall
>everyone looks stunned, some people are giggling
>lecturer says "well, we'll see about that by the end of the course"
>mfw I was probably the only one who answered truthfully

>film school
>multinational class
>teacher tells us today we start shooting
>american kills half the class

Shoulve made up a better ending,user.
2/10 for makin me reply.

>going to film school

What do people even mean by favourite?

Don't you think it's possible that people going to film school actually care about cinema? It's not pseudo-intellectuality that bothers you, it's intellectuality. You're wasting your parents' money, scum.

>film school
>professor asks everyone's favorite movie
>schindler's list, pulp fiction, and inception over and over again

>First day of uni
>introductory class
>lecturer is going around asking random people their favorite films
>try to think of the most normie film I could think of that wasn't utter trash so I wouldn't alienate people and at the same time wouldn't be seen as a total pleb
>"There Will Be Blood"
>"wtf is that?"

>Not saying Drive and having a warrant put out for your arrest by campus security

>in fart school
>introductory class
>lecturer is going around asking random people their favourite farts
>everyone saying pseudo-intellectual fart house bull
>he points me out
>I say "WARM BLACK DINGUS"
>a million gasps fill the hall
>everyone looks stunned, some people are giggling
>lecturer farts
>mfw I fart

that's bs, everyone usually says shit like inception or something by quentin tarantino

>first class of film class
>we're going around the room, saying our favorite movies
>my turn
>"Favorite movie? Hmm, probably Boogie Nights."
>teach motions to next person, but I stop him with a gesture
>"But flick? I'd go with The Goonies."
>Film: Suspiria
>Kino: Woman in the Dunes
>whole class is speechless
>teacher motions to me obediently and goes to sit down in empty desk
>I take over at the podium and begin my lesson

>film school

lel

if you go to film school you are probably a complete loser

Uh ohhh, I start Uni in a week and one of my classes is film study. I hope the tutor doesn't actually ask people for their favourite films because I barely watch movies and definitely don't have a favourite

Conan is shit

>film school

...

>everyone saying pseudo-intellectual art house bull
Better than 90% saying Pulp Fiction and the other 10% saying Fight Club like in every class I took.

Favorite to me means you should ask what movie you enjoy the most, what's most entertaining to you. Something you never get tired of watching.

This can prove to be unrelated to a film's actual quality as a work of art.
Just say Pulp Fiction or Fight Club. You're young enough that those movies are starting to be left out of the conversation anyways.

>motions to me obediently

holy kek

>first day at film academy
>lecturer asks me my favorite movie
>"Batman v Superman of course"
>waves of gasps
>Stand up and give explanation on how BvS revolutionized storytelling, its ties to Biblical lore, and its references to classic art and literature.
>People listen, nod along, and even laugh at some of my jokes.
>Some greasy manchild holding a Nintendo DS stands up and shouts "MARTHUH"
>Everyone freezes and stares at him.
>I chuckle and explain the significance of Batman realizing Superman was not, in fact, a God due to his human mother, and his very human love for her.
>After class, a few people invite me over to a party that weekend.
>I figure, why not. Go to the address at the time they said, find the door's unlocked.
>Open the door.
>Get on the floor.
>Everyone walks the dinosaur.

Normal people: Which one you enjoyed the most.
Elitists: Which one you consider to be of the highest quality.

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>Film class
>Fat beardo professor
>Required book is $150 poorly photocopied primer "written" by film instructor
>Everything in it is ripped off from other sources
>Invites hot chicks in class to parties at his house
>Shows artsy hardcore gay porn in class

Sounds like 50% of 'professors' these days.

I hope you showed them what was best in life.

My favorite movie is Dan in Real Life, what does that make me?

>implying this happened

Anyways when I took a film class, almost every one named Tarantino, Nolan, Spielberg or Fincher shit, with a small group naming godawful horror films like Friday the 13th, part II, or Hellraiser

When I took film class in middle-school almost everyone was totally into Silence of the Lambs since they'd just seen it on TV and it was so hardcore and edgy.
I said Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon because I'd just seen that.

>Tarantino, Nolan, Spielberg or Fincher
They are our modern auteurs. They will be revered in 50 years time.

t. user with an above average intellect but slacked off in his last year of high school and had to go to a bottom-tier college.

I bet your teacher looks like Jack Black.

What would happen if I answer Holy Mountain? What about Salo?

>Salo
Oh user, you so quirky!

>Not naming an obscure tribute to japanese mute cinema as your favorite kino

I feel you famalam. Anyone who shits on conan hasn't actally seen it

You would probably be criticized for having the tastes of a 16 year old who just looked up a "Top 10 Weirdest Movies" list.

numale detected

You're meant to list your favorite film, not the one you namedrop to sound impressive.

>user with an above average intellect but slacked off in his last year of high school and had to go to a bottom-tier college
Nailed it desu

>I bet your teacher looks like Jack Black.
Looked like David Foster Wallace actually, minus the bandana and intellect

>first day of film school
>teacher wants us to introduce ourselves and state our favourite film
>wear my badass scorpion jacket today
>looking like a total stud
>sit quietly while people introduce themselves and say their favourite film
>one girl makes a joke as she introduces herself
>everyone laughs
>i don't
>people introduce themselves around the class
>my turn, i'm last, in the back corner
>...
>'excuse me, sir, your turn'
>...
>teacher checks roll
>i'm the only person un-marked
>'excuse me [user], care to introduce yourself?'
>...
>'...okay, [user], what's your favourite film?'
>...
>...
>'[user], you need to partake and contribute in this class if you want to have a passing grade. what's your favourite film?'
>i look up from the table
>glance around the room with tightened eyelids
>everybody is looking at me
>i look like a total badass
>i take my toothpick out of my mouth
>"...I drive"
>'...o--kay, i haven't heard of that movie, [user], what is it particular that you like about it?'
>...
>"Yeah..."
>Teacher, quite visibly affected by how badass I am, begins introduction to curriculum and stops asking me questions
>Everyone thinks I am so cool they are intimidated to talk to me

>in film class
>lecturer asks me about my favourite film
>yell AM I BEING DETAINED, AM I FREE TO GO? DON'T THREAD ON ME
>class is in awe, probably because they have never seen someone fighting for freedom like that

Is Fitzcarraldo a good movie to say is your favorite?

These are golden.

Most people in college are above average intellect. That's what college is.
"It's tied between The Lobster and Machete Kills"

It is if it is your favorite movie

I don't have a favorite movie

>In film class
>Transferred this semester to an American school
>Recently had a bad break up with my ex-boyfriend
>First day of class
>This dashing young American man proudly declares his freedom in front of everyone
>I feel my weak, non-American body shake in both intimidation and lust
>I swear he glanced in my direction while campus security was dragging him out of the classroom
>...I wonder if he noticed me
>tfw no sexy young Trump-voting kino-watching American man to choke me with my own hijab while he takes me from behind

This. What the fuck is your endgame OP? Surely not makin films, else you'd be out doing that instead.

I met an awful lot of idiots in college, getting to know I was one myself included

>Most people in college are above average intellect
Maybe back in the 1960s. But these days, it's almost expected that you go to University. It's pretty out of the ordinary to not have at least a Bachelor's.

It's not like everyone is studying STEM either, a lot of people just want the "college experience" and go do pointless shit like "African studies" or "18th century English literature".

Just say Amadeus it guarantee's awesome pussy.

why do you watch movies? what film did that the "best"? name that one.

The majority of people aren't getting degrees. You might be underestimating the number of people who just go waste away in service/labor work.

>tfw you get a degree and end up wasting away in service/labor work anyway

Conan is pretty reasonably acclaimed, and directed by Milius, who's a true "70s cinema revivalist" auteur. Don't know why you'd get such a reaction, unless you're just bullshitting, which is likely because every student in my film classes would say something like Interstellar or 500 Days of Summer as their favorite.

>The majority of people aren't getting degrees
A tiny majority, though. 46% of Americans from ages 25 - 34 have completed tertiary education.

Tertiary education =/= bachelor's degree.

Should've said Godzilla (1998)

There will be blood is always my normie friendly answer

>Most people in college are above average intellect.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAA

How can you break-up with an ex-boyfriend? American education, everybody.

I guess you're one of the people below average intellect. Yes, retards are not going to college.

One of my friends dropped his career and enrolled in a film school in Yurop

How fucked are his prospects

People who want to make movies are already making movies. If you have an iPhone and a laptop you're pretty much a one man movie studio.

>2017
>film school


AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
GOOD GOY

I always say Sam Riami's Spider-Man.

The guy I was sitting next to said this, some of the girls in the back were audibly shocked and he was told to see the dean of the department. I didn't see him again.

>what's your favourite quote user!

Not 2?

Worry about your own prospects

Kek

>school cinema

>intelectually

>normies ask what you like to do
>say you like to watch movies
>they think you watch pleb trash or watch it like the average viewer without analyzing and dissecting every bit of information out of it no matter how bad the flick is
>they think you're just your average moviegoer who sits down and watches it

These fucking morons have no idea the time I put into them, the literature I read up on, the psychological aspects of kino, the emotion it evokes, the narrative it drives, the feelings you let yourself succumb to. They think your like them, but you aren't; you're more and better and live in a world of the utmost beauty, taking your love of cinema beyond a mere screen and enjoy the aesthetic beauty of the real world. Positioning and moving throughout the world to get the best visual experience you can possibly get out of this life, sitting still in a park and letting the sounds run through your vivid imagination as you transcendent while watching the sun set.

I don't watch movies, I experience them.

How would people react if I said Robocop?

...

>They think your like them
>your

subtle kek

I'm a senior getting my degree in film and now, as upperclassmen, people are finally getting less pretentious and are actually fun to work with. Creative, passionate, and pretty chill.

As a freshman, though, everyone was like OP's class pretty much.

>Intro to Film Studies class
>"Let's go around the room and say your favorite film"
>People saying either film schoolcore movies just to impress the professor who literally couldn't care less
>"Aguirre the Wrath of God!"
>"Au Revoir, les Enfants!"
>"Gosh, I don't think I can choose between Knight of Cups and The Tree of Life!"
>Gets to me
>Say "The Graduate"
>No one says anything except the professor who smiles
>"Oh man, that's one of my all-time favorites."
>halfway into that year, he structures an entire editing lesson around the cuts in "The Graduate"

I can't tell if normies whose favorite movies are stuff like The Dark Knight or Love, Actually or anything with Jennifer Lawrence or pretentious filmies who claim they just LOVE the mise-en-scene of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or the usage of contrast and color in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood or whatever.

Like, I love a lot of normie films and I also love a lot of filmic shit, but on.

why go to film school? why just not go into film?

Ich bin Filme

The nu-males would laugh at you for liking one of those "cheesy, cringey '80s action flicks."

Can you name a single movie that normies actually DO understand? Protip: I don't think you can.

Have you ever tried watching a movie with a normie? I don't know if it's hormonal or something, but their minds are literally unable to focus on anything.

Have you ever known a normie that had a deep and varied appreciation for any art? Digging around obscure music genres or old filmographies, just for the sake of it and love of the medium, not for potential social status and superficial validation?

When a cinephile watches a movie, he reflects on the themes and subtext, deconstruct the mise en scène and cinematography in order to analyze how the director's choices affect the mood and characters arcs, question the ethos it proposes about its subject matters, judge its authenticity, come up with a list of intertextual references that deepen his understanding, examine the narrative structure as if he were in the writer's head to get his creative process and where he's headed, all this while sensorially appreciating the aesthetics, marveling at the layers in dialogues and noticing many odd details, pondering how this film overall fits into its auteur's oeuvre, observing what it does similarly and what it does differently... as well as its place in film history, among many other active ways of studying and appreciating art... meanwhile normies can barely follow the plot.

If you're not doing
>le Quentin
meme, I can tell you.

>in film school
>everyone is a pleb who's favourite director is tarantino or nolan

>in film school
>professor starts sucking on my penis

anyone else?

>said my favourite movie was Kes
>professor says "oh we got a hipster!"
>everyone laughs

dumb ape, Kes is my favourite movie

You'd be surprised, most people don't go to university. I think it's like 45% who do

How about Goodfellas?

>everyone saying pseudo-intellectual art house bull

well if this board is any indication of what 'art house bull' is we're talking about shit like wernor herzog, lars von trier and kurosawa. which are really the most entry level of directors for people who want to take a step outside their comfort zone.

so you probably just don't care about movies as much as you think you do. there's nothing wrong with that. it's just that you've mistaken your tastes for comfy movies and the enjoyment you get with talking to people with similar tastes as being passionate about movies.

it would be like me saying i'm hugely into baseball because i like to go watch games with my dad, despite having no fucking idea who the players on the team or let alone can name you any fucking teams besides the popular ones. no, i just love the atmosphere of being in a crowded stadium, shooting the shit with my dad and eating cheap food.

Ungrateful apes

problematic and laden with toxic masculinity and microaggressive oppressive slights to women everywhere and outdated notions and social paradigms of what it means to be a FUCKING WHITE MALE

>not saying Pretty Baby so you can start networking with Hollywood pedos right off the bat

>'lolit-'
>professor preforms a citizens arrest while the whole class cheers

you tried, and failed

>in film school
>watch movies

why are professors such plebs???

How the fuck is Kes a hipster movie? That'd be like saying Hobson's Choice or Billy Elliot is a hipster movie

This is all true even though you undermine the point by saying "normie." 90% of people who would call themselves a nerd are the exact same way.

Not a lot of people ever get seriously into art, even the ones who spend all their freetime consuming it.

Did Raimi go TOO far?

>whats your favourite movie
>the gods must be crazy
>no one has ever heard of it
>next lesson im absent
>one person went and watched it, decided it was racist
>they give a terrible plot overview to entire class
>everyone believes i'm racist now
>i am but that is irrelevant
>sent to councillor
>autism attack over the injustice
>kicked out of uni