Steven Benedict

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@keanucooper2103 4 ай бұрын

What is the movie at 0:16 with the woman?

@WaterFeatureFilms 4 ай бұрын

That is Holly Hunter as Dorinda Durston in Always (1989)

@RebecaLawrence-w6e 5 ай бұрын

Steven Spielberg is a master, storyteller. He knows how to make a movie. That can keep us interested. I think John Ford helped inspire. A young Steven Spielberg. 🎥

@RafaelCardoso299 6 ай бұрын

Great analysis !

@stevenbenedict4424 6 ай бұрын

Thank you, Rafael. Very nice to realise that the video is still being viewed. And some of the viewers like it!

@thedougtime 10 ай бұрын

Did you by chance teach at American College Dublin in 1997? If so I took your class.

@WaterFeatureFilms 10 ай бұрын

I did. Wow, that brings back some very faded memories... over a quarter of a century ago!

@thedougtime 10 ай бұрын

@@WaterFeatureFilmsI saw your "Silence of the Lambs" video and recognized some of the clips you showed in that class. I went onto study in Boston (I'm American) and it was really interesting to see the difference in reactions to such controversial topics as "Birth of Nation" from the Irish perspective vs. the American one. As for me, I went onto an almost 25-year career in television programming, so obviously you did something right!

@WaterFeatureFilms 10 ай бұрын

@@thedougtime Congratulations! Sounds like a successful career. How on earth did you make the connection to me? Silence of the Lambs is a movie everyone has seen and there's been so much written and said about it, I doubt what I said is all that original!

@thedougtime 10 ай бұрын

@@WaterFeatureFilmsIt was the clip of the silent era film where a man was peeping at a woman's foot. I remember you showing it to us in class, explaining the voyeurism trope in films since their inception (and how voyeurs almost always get caught). You also mentioned in class that showing a foot during this era was the equivalent to soft core porn. You also had a style of editing clips for lectures (which was impressive prior to digital editing) that seemed consistent with your videos here.

@WaterFeatureFilms 10 ай бұрын

@@thedougtimeWith a memory like that, you could easily operate a side-line as a continental op! Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer...

@shaneoneill1750 Жыл бұрын

That Heaslip tackle 👏🏻👏🏻

@of1300 Жыл бұрын

willis´ photography is all about flat space and limited space. it is very rigid. in some cases i feel it can become rather stilted and boring. especially in klute and the parallax view.... I prefer his work for woody allen. i think david fincher takes a lot from this rigid way of building images. clear lines. minimal camera movement.

@NedEntrikin-f1x Жыл бұрын

This is the single best analysis of Blade Runner I've seen. One film you missed in your comparisons is Journey into Fear, specifically the scene at the end when Joseph Cotten is scaling the outside of the hotel in Batumi.

@stevenbenedict4424 Жыл бұрын

Hello Ned, thank you very much for the generous words. Yes, you are right! The climactic rain-drenched sequence from Journey into Fear is more than echoed at the end of Blade Runner. Alas, when I did the video essay all those years ago I was unable to source the Foster/Welles picture - I know the film from having taped it from a BBC broadcast way back in the 90s, but I didn't have it on DVD to include in the essay. Many thanks once again for your compliment.

@AScreenwritersJourney Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the clips from Night Gallery. I'd never seen that episode.

@mperales16 Жыл бұрын

Awesome 🎉

@detodounpoco.8716 Жыл бұрын

I fell in love with Rachel (Sean Young) ❤

@briancronly1950 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful! Pure poetry….

@austenpowers Жыл бұрын

My fav film.❤

@jarelllevingston7882 Жыл бұрын

Isn’t this old? I have this saved on my old laptop lol

@abcqer555 Жыл бұрын

Incredible. I was really introduced to film noir via your channel and it speaks to me and I love it. The soundtrack, the shots, the voiceovers. Perfection. The shot at @5:15 was my favourite. Rewatched that multiple times.

@stevenbenedict4424 Жыл бұрын

Hello Paul, thank you for dropping in to see the essay. In case you're not familiar with that particular film, it is David Lean's adaptation of Oliver Twist.

@yushiy9105 Жыл бұрын

Glad to see you’re back doing these. Your podcast was the best film analysis pieces I have heard.

@stevenbenedict4424 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for those very kind words, Yushi Y. I've been preparing an hour long essay on The Godfather Trilogy but KZbin have blocked it because of copyright violation. I'm seeing if I can circumvent that by re-editing it. Or I just might put it up on vimeo.

@yushiy9105 Жыл бұрын

@@stevenbenedict4424 great! Just mention the address in comments so people can find it.

@stevenbenedict4424 11 ай бұрын

Hello@@yushiy9105 Hello Yushi, my apologies for the delay in replying. If you're still interested, the hour long essay on The Godfather Trilogy (blocked by KZbin) is available on vimeo.com/847467318 I hope you like it.

@harrisonshanahan7241 Жыл бұрын

thank you this benefits my assessment

@EppudraYT421 Жыл бұрын

4:00 movie name

@stevenbenedict4424 Жыл бұрын

Straw Dogs (Sam Peckinpah, 1971).

@bookycookie4765 Жыл бұрын

whats the name of the movie at 3:32 its so sad

@stevenbenedict4424 Жыл бұрын

Thelma & Louise.

@aaronsynra6867 Жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this analysis, but it doesn't take into accound that a great deal of this films appeal comes from mere limitation to the budget. Things you attribute to purpose and design, were actually just lucky happenstances during the filming or editing process. Which is why the film has been re-cut by Scot many times over the years. It's a work that will probably never be completed. - in his mind.

@stevenbenedict4424 Жыл бұрын

That is an interesting point, but the film's production design went way over budget, indicating that it wasn't limited but above what was initially planned. It wasn't luck or happenstance that the film ended up looking the way it did. It resulted from some of the greatest designers and special effects innovators working at the peak of their powers. Ridley Scott and his team knew what they were doing.

@1cheever Жыл бұрын

I watch this video over and over again.

@stevenbenedict4424 Жыл бұрын

Hello Abigail, thank you very much for the generous compliment. However, I must point you towards Vimeo where an updated essay includes every single one of Gordon Willis' movies. vimeo.com/544310337

@bikefixer Жыл бұрын

Shooting through doorways and windows, silhouettes, small figures in cavernous spaces, chiaroscuro. It almost all looks like one movie.

@evanescapades2513 Жыл бұрын

Lovely

@jacobijacobi1467 2 жыл бұрын

It is great ,thank you .

@marcelonorambuena1600 2 жыл бұрын

Excelente película.adelanrada.a.los.tiempp visionario la banda.sonora unica

@VernusFilm 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely outstanding video. Thank you! It's so beautiful. We're used to seeing comparisons of how Stanley's approach to filmmaking influenced the filmmakers after him, but it's downright comforting to see these images in his films taken from the works of other filmmakers. Even the master has had to learn to be a master.

@stevenbenedict4424 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. However, I must admit that while I think the early part of the essay works, it got away from me a bit at the end.

@VernusFilm 2 жыл бұрын

@@stevenbenedict4424 Well. Maybe a bit, but it's still fascinating.

@hansennip 2 жыл бұрын

Great analysis here.

@chrisdiver6224 2 жыл бұрын

Who are the good guys? The blade runners maintaining the control of the state over a race justifiably fighting for it's freedom - the replicants? Who are most human and evoke our humanity, the replicants or the sociopath blade runners and their genius master? Don't we, the film's viewers, live in a sociopathic society founded on enslavement and genocide and maintained by endless global repression of peoples for their resources? Who are the good guys?

@flash51050 2 жыл бұрын

Men who hit women are not men just scum

@devdhiman77 2 жыл бұрын

Blade Runner and Seven Samurai have been all time favourites of mine.

@farhonahmed5081 2 жыл бұрын

farhan ahmed was here for film class, cwi

@shawnmbugwa6153 2 жыл бұрын

The who tortured them may God punish them heavily and there generation

@XxDyneXxFreeEnergyx 2 жыл бұрын

Here's my input I'd say The Date/setting of blade runner was more: 2091 2190 2901 2910 9012 9021 9120 than 2019...

@harrilaine374 2 жыл бұрын

Hyvä video.

@stevenbenedict4424 2 жыл бұрын

Kiitos!

@MrSkyydude 2 жыл бұрын

7 years later and I still come back to watch this from time to time

@stevenbenedict4424 2 жыл бұрын

Hello Skyy Moore, thank you very much for the very generous compliment. I've actually updated the video to include the more recent Coen brothers' pictures. You can see it on vimeo.com/118793430#

@jamesbromfield9070 2 жыл бұрын

Stunning

@Whoa802 2 жыл бұрын

Wait, what? No Marvel movies? 😆😆😆

@stevenbenedict4424 2 жыл бұрын

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

@markalexwhite 3 жыл бұрын

I don't imagine there will ever be another Championship as close as that!!! #Epic

@sfkeepay 3 жыл бұрын

I suppose I’d given myself over to accepting that everything worth saying about Blade Runner had already been said. You’ve here not only proven that wrong, but delivered all these new facts and insights alongside the most sumptuous and memorable song from one the greatest soundtracks ever made. A video with splendid new material about my favorite movie beautifully woven together with the film’s most haunting, evocative song all presented with such obvious dedication and craftsmanship that you’ve helped renew my enthusiasm for this entire platform. Even just knowing that others really seem to feel at least a version of what I do when watching the movie, or listening to that timeless score, provides a sort of comfort I wasn’t even aware I’d value. Wonderful job, and thank you.

@stevenbenedict4424 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, sfkeepay for those extremely generous compliments. I haven't watched the essay in years (it's almost ten years ago!). Prompted by your kind comments, I watched it again and ... it's a pity I uploaded it with such low image quality.

@sfkeepay 3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenbenedict4424, Predictable comments from a dedicated, skilled content creator....always seeing the “flaws” and looking for ways to improve. Thanks again...I hadn’t said this, but as soon as the final music came up, I had to put my tablet down and put my arm around my sleeping partner. And as banal as it may sound, even the way you “rolled credits” was, for me, and for whatever it’s worth, a sublime experience.