Just curious, do any of you have any movies or shows that really get you in the mood for writing? Maybe something you saw just once that made you jump into a new project or even something you watch over and over just for that inspired feeling. For me it's things like: The Words (500) Days of Summer Captain America Odd Thomas Good Will Hunting About A Boy No idea why, but I've watched each of these movies countless times, and whenever I'm having writer's block I watch one of them and usually end up being able to move on in my project.
Yeah, there's certain movies that just make you feel like you could write a whole novel in one night after watching them There's lots of movies that inspire me to write: Contact The Last Samurai The Lord of the Rings The Bourne Trilogy Cloud Atlas Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Armageddon Sunshine Gladiator Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon I've watched all of them many times.. except Cloud Atlas which I plan to watch sometime this week since this thread reminded me of it.
David Lynch Fellini Kubrick Hitchcock Anything by those guys. V - the 80's version. Oh and the Planet of the Apes I love those movies.
Strange Days Limitless Highlander (only the first one) American Horror Story Firefly Ones off the top of my head
My sparks tend to come from the edutainment channels. Science Channel, Discovery Channel, that kind of thing.
Goodfellas Godfather I and II Documentaries about mental disorders, mobs, prisons, drugs, poverty, and gangs The TV show The Killing
Our current WIP has been influenced by: Battlestar Galactica Aliens (even though our story has neither aliens nor robots) Firefly A Clockwork Orange Full Metal Jacket Platoon Futurama Stalingrad Stargåte SG-1 Lilja 4-Ever The Ninth Legion Salo Event Horizon American Psycho Other movies that have introduced other stories: For medieval stuff Pasolini's Canterbury Tales Seven Samurai (though we haven't written any samurai) Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail Silent Hill Duellists A Knight's Tale Robin Hood Flesh + Blood The LOTR trilogy Princess Mononoke Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders (the BBC version, not the crappy Hollywood one) Contemporary / Dystopian stories V for Vendetta Natural Born Killers Taxi Driver Supernatural Dead Man's Shoes Once Were Warriors Shot Through the Heart American Beauty Sirens Rules of Attraction I'm sure I'm forgetting plenty, but Kat can fill in the rest.
@O. Snow your list of movies is almost identical to mine. Especially (500) Days of Summer. I don't know what it is exactly. It might be the fact that I love Zooey Deschanel (I also like most of Levitt's stuff as well). Overall, the film is just something that I find myself easily identifying with. I love it's unconventional structure, moving forwards and backwards through time - definitely one of my favourites in that genre.
the action was good but the other chars barely got screen time. it felt like they were just there to show face. sorry i wanted to like it
There are two novels I'm working on at the moment. One is a psychological sci-fi thriller (Novel #1), the other is a coming of age superhero/crime story (Novel #2). Novel #1 Inspirations Molly Ringwald movies, particularly those made by John Hughes. The Game John Frankenheimer's Seconds The Hannibal Lecter films, particularly Manhunter and The Silence of the Lambs. Jacob's Ladder The Silent Hill video game series The works of David Cronenberg and David Lynch Novel #2 Inspirations To Live and Die in L.A. Superman: The Movie The Driver Drive The French Connection Dirty Harry Watchmen Akira Neon Genesis Evangelion
Interesstingly enough I don't get jazzed to write from watching movies, although I enjoy cinema quite a bit.
It was mainly about Sephiroth and Cloud, that's true. And I don't tend to get inspired by movies much. Its music that does it for me, and it totally depends on what's going on in the story. If the music and the plot are in sync, then there's writing magic!! Currently I'm been listening to The Hunger Games station on Pandora, and its been working out swimmingly for me.
@ConnorackCarolina - You may want to consider playing/watching a playthrough of Deadly Premonition for novel #1, if you haven't already checked it out.
Ditto @Fitzroy Zeph. Movies are enjoyable, but they don't inspire me. Music, on the other hand, inspires me to do everything. That's for another thread, though.
Ridley Scott's Prometheus and JJ Abrams' Star Trek. I watch them and I think, "I can write better than this stupid, illogical, pathetic, braindead pigshit."
That's a bit harsh, don't you think? Prometheus was at most stupid, illogical, pathetic, braindead dogshit. While Star Trek, well, that's another matter all together, it's supposed to be really bad or it's not really good.
Clerks Chasing Amy Writer/director Kevin Smith is, well, peculiar, but one thing he does is studies people and creates wonderfully realistic characters. Then he makes those characters say all the things and ask the questions we only think of doing in real life.
Uff, I agree here. Sometimes when I listen to music on a bus I get nervous/anxious to write. Also, some of the movie soundtracks are very inspiring.
The Star Trek series was a major influence for me and despite my MC becoming a cyborg and the influence character already a cyborg, Terminator had little to no influence (Terminator was a robot, not a cyborg). A major influence on my concept of cyborgs was the movie "Cyborg 2087." Strangely, I guess I'm kind of doing something similar to Halo, but I didn't know the influence character was an A.I. and I didn't even know what HALO was until about 6 month ago, long after I was already working out the details of my story.
