Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Why Do Movies Feel So Different Now?" video.

@ThomasFlight For how long have you been working on it? This might sound weird, but I want a BTS video. Not so much on the technical aspects of making the video but a BTS of your thought process and how you went about organizing those thoughts into a formal structure. Yeah, that sounds pretty weird. I’m not quite sure how one would make such a film. It’s basically asking for access to your stream of consciousness. I don’t think it’s really necessary, because the video gives us the distillate of your mental process. And if your stream of consciousness is anything like mine, it’s filled with mundanity. My interior dialogue is mostly pretty boring most of the time. It’s not just a weird request that I made, it’s unreasonable. But maybe the request itself will provide you with some entertainment, and [deity] willing, impinge on your narrative.
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⁠ @matthewglenguir7204 That was part of it. The video ended too abruptly and go right into the Mubi sponsor bit. It was organic, but then the video ended and my thought was “surely this can’t be all?” It certainly isn’t all. That’s the thing. Thomas is inviting your participation, he is initiating a reaction from you. The incompleteness calls on YOU to fill out the missing 30 minutes. Or five or ten or however many minutes is needed to provide a contingent sense of having an answer. Maybe the rest of your life. The ending was a pretty good subversion of the video essay structure and our expectations. And yes, this was a comment. Fuck the rest of you commenters. Fuck all y’all for your endlessly trite mimetic beating a dead horse. If you don’t have anything real to say, why say anything? It’s like one dog peeing on a tree and the rest of the dogs have to pee in the same place. Yes, it was a certainly a tree.
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Thomas, this piece hit me unexpectedly. It engaged me not merely as an entertainment, it engaged my mind as a prompting of many thoughts. I had to keep pausing the video and going back to catch points you were making because I was distracted by my own thoughts about whatever previous point you had made. Or I had to watch some other piece of cinema to position my understanding of something in the video. For example, the scenes from Top Gun: Maverick (which I haven’t seen) that you used to illustrate hyper modernism that had a American flag backdrop reminded me of the opening scene of Patton, where George C. Scott does the Patton speech. The one about Americans being natural killers. I had to go watch the scene immediately. Something similar happened last night. I watched a documentary about the cinematographer John Alonzo, the Man Who Shot Chinatown. Immediately afterwards I had to watch Chinatown, which I thought I would watch analytically to see Alonzo’s technique. I even watched it dubbed in Spanish to take me out of the story and maintain analytical distance, but to no avail. I got sucked back into the story. 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’m not sure what this has to do with my reaction to this video. I think I’ve digressed into a stream of consciousness. Anyway, where was I? Seriously, I’ve lost my train of thought. I’m sure it will come to me later. I’m planning on watching this video again. I’m sure I’ve missed something and my reaction thoughts are racing with concatenations of possibilities so quickly that I’m going to forget what I am thinking about it all. I also enjoyed your playfulness throughout. Even the frustrating ending, where I expected a strong summation, tickled me. It invites a response. Thanks for making this.
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