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It would be a toss-up between Citizen Kane and The Godfather, both of which were part of a Cinema course I took in my senior year of high school in the fall of 2001. The teacher was a complete nerd about film, incredibly passionate about certain directors, and he drilled into us just how much of a collaborative art form film is. With Citizen Kane, that was the first time I genuinely understood what mise en scene could bring to a movie, and with The Godfather, between the luxurious cinematography, the editing (Michael's baptism in blood) and the visual symbolism--even stuff that's totally in your face on repeat viewings, like oranges--just blew me away when I was taught how to notice that stuff.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:I don't really have a movie that did this. However, Portrait of a Lady did this for me for books and that carried over to narrative media in general. For a second I thought you were talking about The Property of a Lady and got horribly confused before I remembered the James book. Good stuff, read that in honors English my freshman year of high school. Astrochicken posted:Apocalypse Now or Blade Runner. I was only really interested in plot and plot twists before but those were the first movies I wanted to understand. Turned me into a pretentious insufferable poo poo, too. I wish I had warmed up on Blade Runner sooner than I did; I think the first time I watched it was during my freshman or sophomore year of high school, I remember renting it one night and my best friend coming over to the house to watch it, because I had been told that it was a sci-fi masterpiece (and I was already a Ridley Scott fanboy because of Alien). But neither of us were really familiar with the language of film at that point--at that point, I was just finally entering my phase of realizing that Ghostbusters is a comedy, not an action movie with the coolest car and backpacks ever--and so after it was over, we were like, "... that sucked, it was like two hours long and there was 20 minutes of plot." I eventually revisited it during my freshman year of college and I was like,  Oh, to be young and stupid again, instead of old and dying.
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