2/7/2024 0 Comments Tangerine 2015 productionIt doesn’t rely on a big budget or rote filmmaking methods to create something engaging, it does it by being honest. Tangerine holds its own identity and expresses itself like a genuine person. The young writers I’ve helped develop scripts will tell you with a frustrated tone of voice that I am a die-hard believer in the power of structure, and I will nearly demand you rewrite your own script if I feel it lacks structural integrity.īut, if you can tell an engaging story without using the principles taught in a multitude of story structure books, I think you are awesome.īaker’s film doesn’t meet the technical standards we consider makes a film “good”, but it finds ways to be engaging without those things. ![]() Revisiting the merits of technical competence, the worst critique I’ve ever heard is that a film “didn’t have a three-act structure”. It was not nominated for anything at the Academy Awards, likely due to the elitist (racist sexist) nature of the Academy, but also because it doesn’t fit as a stand-out example of any singular category. If someone turned Tangerine in as a final project at a prestigious film institution, I would not be surprised if they received a poor grade. Tangerine has ugly cinematography, inexperienced actors, a shallow meandering plot, and characters who are difficult to sympathize with. If these are the standards we use to discuss a film’s quality, then why is Tangerine such a widely accepted “good” movie? Could it possibly mean that using mathematical scientific methodology to logically assess a piece of art’s value puts the power of deciding what is good or not in the hands of those who can afford to spend millions of dollars on “quality assurance”? The unsettling feeling I got about that idea, though, was that if Tangerine and this hypothetical Hollywood film were compared, dissected, and analyzed, many might deem the elitist exploitation the superior film.īecause, from a technical perspective, this proposed movie would most likely offer stronger writing, acting, cinematography, direction, and production design – thanks to the resources at its disposal. ![]() Rich people looking down, pretending to champion while instead pitying and exploiting the lives of those who live at the trough of society. The film would feel exactly like what it would be: The story would explicitly explore the pain and trauma of poverty, incorporating a narrative of “escaping” their situation. ![]() The characters would be portrayed by multi-millionaire heterosexual cis-gendered males (most likely white).Ģ. Yesterday, I rewatched Sean Baker’s Tangerine (2015) and began to imagine what a movie about transgender prostitutes would look like if it were made by a major production company for millions of dollars:ġ.
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