“Let’s Laugh At How Ridiculous Our Industry Is”: Instagram Page Satirizes Filmmakers With 40 Hilarious Memes
While films have proved their ability to reflect on their own creative process as well as their nature by going meta, for filmmaking memes, it’s their daily bread that serves a similar purpose, to first and foremost break down an illusion of the action happening naturally in real time that filmmakers often work so hard to achieve. In other words, to reveal the hard work behind the ‘perfect take’ and go deep into the daily struggles of those trying to fulfill their vision.
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Hans Zimmer was in the Buggles, the first band shown on MTV. Their hit song was "Video Killed the Radio Star"!
“Filmmaker Memes” has 44K followers on Instagram. They suggest one good 'treatment' for filmmakers or otherwise daily struggles, which has always been laughter or not taking things too seriously, as per their motto: “Let’s laugh at how ridiculous our industry is.”
One would be wrong, however, to assume that everyone likes to see the illusion of a perfect film world existing somewhere out there to be broken in front of their very eyes. As many people did not enjoy one bit, when in Hanneke’s “Funny Games” a character named Paul starts talking to the camera as if addressing the viewer of a film and making him self-conscious rather than immersed into the reality of a film. This might, of course, be the choice of taste, as Paul possibly would not be a conversation partner of most people’s choice.
I kind of like some of their older films more like Wall-E and Toy Story
However, there are many examples from meta-films, which have characters that we are more willing to associate with and in such a way accept our human imperfections or flaws. The classic example and one of the pioneers of a meta-film is Federico Fellini’s “8 ½” capturing and at the same time exploring the creative process by following a film director’s character, who is struggling to come up with ideas for his next movie and showing challenges as well as rewards of working in a film industry and of artistic creation in general.
One of the more recent examples of a film going meta is Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”, which shows a more vulnerable, but accordingly possibly more relatable portrait of an actor, rather than glamorous pictures of actors from the times of classic Hollywood. In "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", one of the ways such an effect is achieved is by using a repetitive motive, showing Rick Dalton’s character played by Leonardo DiCaprio breaking into tears, thinking his career peak as an actor has come to an end or for forgetting his line in front of the crew.
Whenever someone references the godfather i always think of the movie you've got mail.
"Should I put my camera on the 'focused as f**k' setting or the 'm0therf**king focused' setting??" What looks like an 'r' is really half of an 'm.'
Pretty much all meetings with the way too happy at 5am boss...
Such effect showing the flaws of an actor is strengthened by the contrast of Brad Pitt’s character, who plays Rick’s stuntman Cliff Booth, doing all the physically demanding tricks for him and actually being able to enjoy his life without worrying too much about how others perceive him.
Finally, the thread connecting meta-films and memes can be brought up by bringing up the elements of irony and self-awareness. These elements that are essential for memes are evident in David Lynch’s film “Mulholland Drive” showing the first part of the film turning out to be nothing but creation - a dream - of a girl’s conscience refusing to acknowledge the harsh reality she’s in and falling victim to the film industry. It depicts the character’s process of becoming self-aware and shows the irony of a dream’s power to be a double-sided sword that can and often is destructive, unless taken with a grain of salt or a good sense of humor.
Time for this...why did the Star Wars films come out in the order 4,5,6, 1,2,3? In charge of scheduling, Yoda was...
I think the talents of film editors are really underappreciated by the general cinema audience. I could name dozens of directors but struggle to name many film editors (Thelma Schoonmaker is the only one that springs to mind)
There was a commercial they were shooting for a business I used to work for and I was there to handle the merchandise we provided for the set. I swear the director had ears like a bat, even a cat could not escape his ears and wrath. I was just breathing normally, at rest, not loud at all. Next I see him turn real slow and just glare at me from across the studio😁🙄 ...
I say "We'll fix it in post" all the time when I'm recording my group's nonofficial movies, but I have no idea how to fix those types of problems, I'm not that good at photoshop. :(
OUR CANADIAN BOI GOSLING!!! (I just saw "Papyrus" the other day... LOL omg... so funny.)
This is usually not true. It's either a cheap camera that doesn't take up budget or 16 mm or 35 mm film that takes up budget
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I love when bp makes these articles that only a few people can relate to. I'm just reading through it like "omg this is like, so funny, i have no idea what this means!"
Yeah, for some reason I feel the need to read all of them and a bunch of comments even though I don't get most of it.
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Having used Adobe **anything** I get the jokes about Premiere... and vs using other programs (omg... Adobe... one should not have to take a second mortgage just to buy ONE program...) - I was never 'into' or gifted at any of the 'making of' aspects... but I always LOooOoOooved watching the behind-the-scenes documentaries.
I love when bp makes these articles that only a few people can relate to. I'm just reading through it like "omg this is like, so funny, i have no idea what this means!"
Yeah, for some reason I feel the need to read all of them and a bunch of comments even though I don't get most of it.
Load More Replies... Having used Adobe **anything** I get the jokes about Premiere... and vs using other programs (omg... Adobe... one should not have to take a second mortgage just to buy ONE program...) - I was never 'into' or gifted at any of the 'making of' aspects... but I always LOooOoOooved watching the behind-the-scenes documentaries.
