Do you ever think about how powerful movies are?

[Denzel_Saucegton]

“better than lambs blood”

 

[SunZoo]

Movie = move me = Psychological manipulation

Y’all stay sleep, tho. Decalcify y’all’s pineal glands.

Funny my nikka but that's not the kind of math I was using.

Before we even get to wether you believe in any of the mumbo jumbo, if you think occultists have had no hand in making Holly-wood into the machine it is today, you're a fukking fool.

A step further, the symbolism and signifigance of the holly tree before it became associated with Christmas comes from the Druid priests and holy men using the wood for the magical properties they believed it held for everything including wands. The purpose of said wands were to aid the user in being able to affect reality and peopels's perception of it.

There is not a more powerful tool to influence and affect people's percetpions of reality than movies/television for better or worse.

 

[Swirv]

Because in that moment my emotions and biology are invested in the production so I jump when there is a loud noise etc.

I see that, but that’s part of the fun for this genre.

Letting your mind play tricks on you, whereas, you wonder about that sound you heard in the house. Knowing that zombies could never be real, however the movie was so convincing that you fool yourself for a second.

If a movie can get me on that level, i know it’s good.

What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen?

 

[Low End Derrick]

hence the term Broad - Casting

Television = tell-a-vision

 

[Sukairain]

Yeah but then you stop caring. Who could honestly say that a movie made a lasting change to their life or to their attitude about something. The sympathy machine runs out of sympathy once it runs out of film

 

[Gritsngravy]

Oldboy (2003) is a very dangerous film.

Why u say that

 

[Gritsngravy]

Stories and an appreciation of a shared narrative are huge motivators for people.

Birth of a nation was America's first blockbuster and was screened in the white house. What does that tell you about America at the time? It subsequently led to the Klan being revitalized and growing its membership significantly.

In the 80s seemingly every other week an action movie would drop about a military trained white man fighting thinly veiled representations of what the government considered communists. It's not a coincidence that Ivan drago was an opp so dangerous he literally killed the black man that rocky built his career off, also a subliminal message to black people "put your hopes in the AMERICAN white man. You can't represent America on your own. The real America is a cac" they're willing to subvert the internal logic of the film to prove a point(creed was a battle tested champion with far more years of experience than rocky)

It’s a lot of things about that rocky franchise that’s fufu

 

[MMS]

It really is because the entire image of the US as the promised land was handled mainly by Hollywood in the 80s which made a goat herder in Kabul enamored with the image of ripe pawgs for all and as much freedom as your extended magazine can hold as you sip a 40oz of Coke with fireworks going off as the credits rolled. Same skills had every turban = terrorist in peoples heads and before that every bad guy was a Communist.

On the flip have you noticed that over the past decade you see more and more Chinese on the screen as heroes, never villains. Thats because of the limited market they wish to crack and requirements needed to get on to screens back East.

That is an immense power. The power to shape and control perceptions via subtle influence and lights flickering but none dare call it hypnosis...

but you always insinuate that you feel you are in a game

wouldnt powers that be ...know that? by framing how you see the world. You seeing the world as a game was a conclusion made for you before you thought you had a unique conclusion

how does one become a chinese protagonist?

Spoiler

 

[Ciggavelli]

When I was an undergrad, I watched a movie a night for like 4 years straight. Everything, every type of movie, all different countries. I toyed with being a film major, but realized it's very hard to be successful in that field, and I thought psychology was a better choice.

Movies are powerful and music is powerful. Ideologically, I don't like the idea that some media can force individuals to believe or do certain things. I just don't like that idea. However, there is evidence that it does affect people. It's clear there are agendas being placed in movies and tv. I think anybody can see that. But, does it really lead to meaningful change in people? I don't want to believe that, but maybe...

 

[SunZoo]

Television = tell-a-vision

Tell-lie-vision

 

[SunZoo]

When I was an undergrad, I watched a movie a night for like 4 years straight. Everything, every type of movie, all different countries. I toyed with being a film major, but realized it's very hard to be successful in that field, and I thought psychology was a better choice.

Movies are powerful and music is powerful. Ideologically, I don't like the idea that some media can force individuals to believe or do certain things. I just don't like that idea. However, there is evidence that it does affect people. It's clear there are agendas being placed in movies and tv. I think anybody can see that. But, does it really lead to meaningful change in people? I don't want to believe that, but maybe...

All art is propaganda my guy.

How effective you believe it to be is one thing. The general intention to change how people think and percieve the world is with said art is another.

 

[null]

They are straight up empathy generating machines that give you the feels for 90 minutes a time by suspending reality in order to have you buy in to someone elses fabricated existence and events. Best of all it takes no effort on your part.

That is an insane power if you think about it but, like most everyday miracles, not many do consider it as its ubiquitous. Imagine if we plucked a caveman from the timestream, tied him to a chair with a big screen and surround sound booming and he watched this:

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Before we sent him back to his peoples. See how unimportant words are in the grand scheme of things when its all about the motion picture ish, aha haha haa!

some people find it hard to distinguish between the feelings generated by memories and those generated by film.

show a man how great his people are on film and over time he will start to believe it in real life.

test:

try to imagine an indian or chinese ...

Spoiler: ...

... indian or chinese superman ...



yet more or less everyone on earth can readily go with a gringo one ..

whenever these germans address me as "man" i ask them whether they think we are in a movie ...

 

[maxamusa]

without them I'd be forced to read more books

 

[The Fade]

Stories and an appreciation of a shared narrative are huge motivators for people.

Birth of a nation was America's first blockbuster and was screened in the white house. What does that tell you about America at the time? It subsequently led to the Klan being revitalized and growing its membership significantly.

In the 80s seemingly every other week an action movie would drop about a military trained white man fighting thinly veiled representations of what the government considered communists. It's not a coincidence that Ivan drago was an opp so dangerous he literally killed the black man that rocky built his career off, also a subliminal message to black people "put your hopes in the AMERICAN white man. You can't represent America on your own. The real America is a cac" they're willing to subvert the internal logic of the film to prove a point(creed was a battle tested champion with far more years of experience than rocky)

Miyazaki calls out all that shyt too. Basically called his own people c00ns for liking LOTR, Indiana Jones and High Fantasy

He says whenever you see movies, especially fantasy films of white people killing dark skinned “hordes” it’s used to justify when white men want support for wars against darker skinned people and a psyop to devalue peoples lives

 

[QU Hectic]

Why u say that

The ending speaks volumes.