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Silver Linings Playbook: The Art Of Watchin

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Movies are a unique type of art. Most people wouldn’t think of filmmaking as a type of art, but it most certainly is. When people think of art, they think of paintings like the Mona Lisa, or The Last Supper. People don’t realize how much work is put into making a film until they actually read about how a film is made. There are many steps to filmmaking that people have to follow, but they can do it in their own style. When a movie is made, there are many people who work on it to make it a great movie. The main people who have a big part in making a movie is obviously the directors and the actors of the movie. There are also the editors, producers, music artists, and many more. Silver Linings Playbook is a movie that has many great details to it that most people do not realize when they first watch this movie. If viewers read the book called “The Art of …show more content…

What makes a film unique? The continuous interplay of sight, sound, and motion allows film to transcend the static limitations of painting a sculpture- in the complexity of its sensual appeal as well as its ability to communicate simultaneously on several levels. Unlike the stage play, film can provide a continuous, unbroken flow, which blurs and minimizes transitions without compromising the story’s unity. Film has the capability to represent just about anything we can imagine or perceive. Time can be slowed or speeded up so that the invisible is revealed. As if by magic, a bullet’s trajectory through the air or the many stages of a flower’s bloom can be made visible and comprehensible (p. 3). Silver Linings Playbook shows these aspects very well throughout the movie. While the book is talking about how films can show the many stages of a flower blooming, most viewers would think of the scene where the two main characters are learning their dance. The movie shows the evolution of the dance and how the dance has affected their lives with one

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