PHILOSOPHY IN MOVIES
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It's the end of a movie, and the closing credits are slowly moving across the black screen. And you ... you're just sitting there and keep staring through the screen into nowhere. Everything is just a total mess: your thoughts, ideas, and fragments of phrases are mixed in your head.
Yes, this is the exact feeling you will experience after watching these movies. The aftertaste is so strange, yet so irresistibly beautiful. Here we offer you a list of the deepest philosophical quotes from film
MOVIES
BARTON FINK, The Coen Brothers.
Like Woody Allen or Stanley Kubrick, the Coens produce film that is not merely philosophical, but is philosophy itself; the kind of art that drives fans to study philosophy in the first place.
PLOT
Barton Fink( John Turturro) is a pious (God-fearing) New York playwright who has dedicated his life to theatre writing plays about the “Common Man”. Barton has been tasked with writing a major wrestling picture. But, while Barton doesn’t know anything about wrestling and admits as much from the start, it quickly becomes apparent that he doesn’t know anything about the common man, which is what he’s famous for writing about. Surrounded by normal people, he refuses to get his head out of the clouds and to listen to their stories.
In short, he refuses to try to understand their lives. One man in particular, Charlie Meadows (John Goodman), tries repeatedly to help Barton out to no avail. It seems straight forward, but one must ask what the point of all of this is?
Barton refuses to listen to Charlie and to see what is going on despite several tell-tale (revealing) signs, and he eventually winds up in an awful situation because Charlie has acted rashly. Why? The suggestion is that his actions are thanks to the seductive powers of fascism.
THEMES
The whole theme of the movie is built into Barton Fink himself, evident from the title. He is a plodding, introspective, unsure intellectual whose lack of insight is matched only by his lack of talent.
Set in pre-World War II 1940s, Barton Fink is a satire on our self-obsessed thought process, more aptly in the case of writers. Prominent themes of Barton Fink include the writing process; slavery and conditions of labor in creative industries.
QUOTES
I gotta tell you, the life of the mind... There's no roadmap for that territory... And exploring it can be painful.
Ladies do ask for attention. In my experience, they pretend to give it, but it's generally a smokescreen for demanding it back with interest.
BLADE RUNNER, Ridley Scott.
PLOT
In the film, we follow a Blade Runner on a mission to 'retire' four replicants. Retire is a polite way of saying, “kill” because replicants, for all intents and purposes, are identical to humans except for a shorter lifespan.
In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants - humanoid androids with short, fixed lifespans - which are illegal on Earth, but are used in the off-world colonies. In Los Angeles, California, 2019, Deckard is a "blade runner", a cop who specializes in terminating replicants.
Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film depicting a dystopic Los Angeles in November 2019. The screenplay is loosely based on the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K.
GENRE
Sci fi, mystery and thriller.
THEMES
Empathy, Dystopia, Oppression, Corporate Power, Conscience, Morality.
It has been argued that Blade Runner thematically enfolds moral philosophy and philosophy of mind implications of the increasing human mastery of genetic engineering.
Dystopia is defined as "a community or society, usually fictional, that is in some important way undesirable or frightening".
MORAL AND MESSAGE
Whether you’re a replicant or an actual human, life is just too short. As life is fleeting, you not only have to enjoy it as much as possible, this also means you only have a scant few years to make your mark in history. Try to live live to its fullest.
The main point of the film is to make you question what it means to be alive.
QUOTES
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does?
Pain reminds you the joy you felt was real. More joy, then.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
Replicants are like any other machine, are either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit it's not my problem.
LA DOLCE VITA, Federico Fellini.
PLOT
The film follows Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness.
THEMES
Superficiality, lust, envy, desire, horror, repulsion, anxiety, falsehood, false values ...
The intrusiveness, shallowness, sensationalism and amorality of the tabloid media is a constant theme and presence throughout the film but it also serves to show ...
La Dolce Vita had its origins in Fellini's own fame, in his frustration with the hollowness of modern society, and in the sudden loosening of Italy's morals. ... Marcello is a writer whose work lies somewhere between journalism and celebrity gossip.
THE PARTY OF HYPOCRISY
Marcello during the party understands that those around him are false friends. He understands that everyone has understood his game, that everyone knows the face hidden by his mask. In fact, they have fun making fun of him for his ambitions as a writer, reproaching him for the fact that he is nothing but a gossip-telling. And then he too begins to take away the masks from the others but no one actually wants these masks to be destroyed, and the conflict then turns into a big circus parade. The order is restored. And nobody really got hurt.
At the end, across a beach, he sees the shy girl he met one day when he went to the country in search of peace to write his novel. She makes typing motions to remind him, but he does not remember, shrugs, and turns away.
MORAL AND MORAL MESSAGE
I think Fellini was a very moral filmmaker. He was very prophetic but at the same time he examined the range of human behavior. ‘La Dolce Vita’ inspires a range of emotions lust, envy, desire, horror, repulsion,” she said.
Even today we say it has a moral message: We identify the false values, superficiality and anxieties of the film’s characters with the society we live in today.
QUOTES
A man who agrees to live like this is a finished man, he's nothing but a worm! I don't believe in your aggressive, sticky, maternal love! I don't want it, I have no use for it! This isn't love, it's brutalization! La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini.
Stay free, available, like me. Never get married. Never choose. Even in love, it's better to be chosen. La Dolce Vita, Federico Fellini.
Don't you understand? When you give up your dream, you die. Flashdance, 1983. Adrian Lyne.
My Mama always said, 'Life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get'. Forest Gump, 1994 Robert Zemeckis.
LOVE STORY, Arthur Hiller.
PLOT
Oliver Barrett IV, the heir of an American upper-class East Coast family, is attending Harvard College where he plays ice hockey. He meets Jennifer "Jenny" Cavilleri, a quick-witted, working-class Radcliffe College student of classical music; they quickly fall in love despite their differences.
Without his father's financial support, the couple struggle to pay Oliver's way through Harvard Law School; Jenny works as a teacher. Oliver graduates and takes a position at a New York City law firm. They are ready to start a family, but fail to conceive. After many tests Oliver is told that Jenny is terminally ill.
QUOTES
Love means never / not ever having to say you're sorry. Love Story, 1970. Arthur Hiller.
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, Louis Malle
Things don't affect people the way they used to. I mean it may very well be that 10 years from now people will pay $10,000 in cash to be castrated just in order to be affected by something.
You don't understand!, I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it.
THE LOST WEEKEND, Billy Wilder
There must be a reason why you drink, Don? The right doctor could find it. - Don Birnam: Look, I'm way ahead of the right doctor. I know the reason. The reason is me - what I am. Or, rather, what I'm not. What I wanted to become and didn't. - Helen St. James: What is it you want to be so much that you're not? - Don Birnam: A writer! Silly, isn't it.
We're both trying, Don. You're trying not to drink, and I'm trying not to love you.
THE MATRIX, The Wachowskis
Appearances can be deceiving, which brings me back to the reason why we're here. We're not here because we're free. We're here because we're not free. There is no escaping reason; no denying purpose. Because as we both know, without purpose, we would not exist.
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