I was expecting the intro to be someting like: "Hi, my name is Tony, and this is Every Frame a Painting. Now, have a seat, because today, we'll be discussing chairs."
I hate that you've left us, but I love that you've left us these videos. I will keep coming back, a couple times a year it seems, and re-watching these videos, for as long as I can. You left a gift for us all, and I hope that whatever you're up to these days, you're loving it!
Those jokes with the chairs that you pointed out were really interesting. Mainly the Chaplin one. This reminds me of how clowns are trained to use objects around them as a part of the staging they are in. Many jokes were put together by just using chairs, mic stands, coats, suits and so on.
4:40-4:53 I like this sequence of editing. Notice how the chairs are moving. From still life to chaos and back to still life again. It's a clever method of editing--a way to suggest the editor having his fun like a child in a sand box, throwing around sand--except, here, chairs are being thrown around. And then a return to normality--the stillness of the chairs in the Matrix suggests the framing of his brief time of fun.
As soon as i saw the title, I knew "Up" would be referenced. Those chairs so perfectly portray Karl and Ellie's characters. Great video, Tony. Keep up the great work!
Every Frame a Painting YESSSS thank you. Hiiipower just has such an upbeat tone and lyrics its hard to sit down. Dude keep on doing what you do. I love your channel so feeaking much. You really got me into studying different types of film.
birdman1741 Cheers man. In my earlier edits of this video, I actually used the instrumental of Hol' Up but decided that HiiiPower was a better fit. Everybody put three fingers in the aaaaaair.
Great, great, great video! I had never really paid any (conscious) attention to the chairs in the frame. That will change from now on. Thank you for sharing this!
Dude. You blow me away, every time. I watch most of your essays 2-3 times (or more) & often end up watching/rewatching movies you discuss. Like the week long Kurosawa binge I went on a while back. You always do a great job & always make me think. Thanks
This video has become a staple in my undergrad semiotics course. It makes concrete and visual all the abstract theory I'm trying to convey to my students. It's a wonderful video-essay!
The Up one destroyed me, thank you very much. I'm binge watching your videos and I'm learning a lot. From now on when I watch movies and tv shows I'll be paying attention to many more details. Thank you!!
Hey tony I love your videos the Amount of detail and thought you put into them is amazing and I learn a Ton from them. Do you want the channel to grow in both scale and frequency(posting) or are you happy with how it is now?
ranzes infante I used to want these to come out on a regular schedule, but I've learned that the editing process is freakishly unpredictable. So I'm not sure anymore. I think the #1 priority for me is to make them good. It's really heartening to hear that people not only watch them once, but keep rewatching them. So at the very least, I want these videos to be good enough to sit through more than once.
I feel like Tony is indirectly making an excellent point about filmmaking, how his videos take the seemingly most mundane aspects of life and/or movies (a fucking chair, for example), and making a fascinating video essay out of it. Much like how he pointed out how David Fincher is able to take otherwise mundane scenes of three people sitting in a room, talking, and making it cinematic....
Great video man. As someone who prides themselves on understanding the 'art of a scene' this is something I've NEVER thought about. Especially that Godfather 2 Scene... damn...
Awesome topic, man. Loved it. I'm glad someone else pays attention to the weird details of set design as well, haha. I'm a big fan of rugs and lamps in movies.
I sorta wish they had gone more book accurate for the Iron Throne where it is this huge crooked monstrosity that towers over the room and anyone wishing to sit in it actually has to climb a flight of stairs, made of swords of course, built into it. It would've sold the importance of the chair a lot more. But of course it would've cost at least double the money and made staging scenes around it a bit more complicated since anyone getting in or out of it would have to climb a bunch of stairs and everyone had to look up at them. I do like that they got around this by actually having the characters comment on how underwhelming the chair is and that there is no way the stated number of swords used in it's construction is accurate.
I got a notification for this video at the exact same time I was writing a character telling another to sit. Needless to say I feel I need to rethink the way in which this is done now.
This is so insightful. I write fiction, and in my stories I'm always writing the chair to match the scene or the character, or both. I never realized why until I watched your video. Thank you!
Every single one of your videos changes my perception of how I view TV and film. I'm a TV graduate but your insightful videos and your attention to detail in your video essays astound me and inspire me. Thank you.
Pablo Cueto Liñan I'm pretty sure he deliberately didn't use it because I'm pretty sure he already used it in the Fincher video. A good writer doesn't reuse words if he can help it.
This is such a wonderful video. This is honestly one of my favorites so far. I love how you've picked what is ultimately not an inherently important thing, but a ubiquitous one, and shown how it can be made useful to the movie. Love it.
I don't think this is weird at all. Great Essay on Production Design! I don't know if it fits here... But I had to think of that scene in "Rear Window" when Thorwald is slowly coming closer to James Stewart who is going back in his chair, flashing him with his camera.
Satirisch In a film thats all about the immobility of an injured man the chair is an extremely significant piece of the mise en scene. Very good point.
Amazing. You just took a piece of production that I mostly considered to be trivial and showed that how much it can actually mean in the context of the film. With every video you make Tony, I learn more and more about the small but important nuances of cinema and I'm very grateful for that. Keep up the great work! :D
Oh, I'd never thought about chairs this way before ! It will of course improve my productions in the future, your channel is by far the best about cinematography ! keep the good work, thanks !
You have easily become one of my favorite TH-camrs, man. I love your choice of instrumentals for your videos. Especially the hip-hop ones. Two of my favorite things in the world is Hip-Hop and Movies and you perfectly blend them in your editing and extreme knowledge of cinema. Much love and respect to you.
I love your videos. 5 minutes explaining what chair/sittig in a movie can tell about the world or the charachters it's just awesome. Thank you for the content!
IGameChangerI Except that there aren't many props that are in almost every single movie. Therefore chairs serve as excellent examples to illustrate the broader point, which I believe he gestured at himself in the essay.
BollocksUtwat Cars, doors, clocks, phones, road signs, fences, etc. My favorite is mirrors. I wasn't saying that chairs were a bad example, but they're just that: an example. They're not the only thing that this can be applied to.
IGameChangerI Except that many of those objects you described are very on the nose, obvious and hard to ignore. However, you (as in people) address a chair very oddly, rather than facing it you usually sit in it, putting your back to it. Mirrors come close but they're trickier to work with and usually much less inconspicuous. A great example of one though is the scene in Drive that Tony mentions in his vid about that film. I'd say chairs *are* the best example because they're the ones that have the most general utility regardless of the film while being inconspicuous. They're not just part of the background, they're seamlessly part of the environment (they belong in most rooms and we see lots of rooms in movies) and interacted with constantly. They're easily shoe horned into a moment so you can use them to say something whereas I dunno how you get a clock or a fence to illustrate Fredo's weakness and impotence. I still think the chair is the best example to illustrate the broader point.
Talking about details, I love how you indirectly express your love for hip hop music through your videos. From A Tribe Called Quest and RJD2 in the past to Black Star, K Dot, and Wu in this one. I love it.
Ironic thing is that George R R Martin imagined the throne in GoT as being far more impressive than the crummy little thing on the HBO production. If you look at the renderings of his version of it you'll understand what he means by it was supposed to look so imposing that it should always leave every king who sits on it feeling ill at ease over the power he wields, or something to that effect.
***** I don't think so. They probably only did it for practicality purposes, ie. shooting and having character interactions around a small chair is easier than a monstrous one that only allows one actor to be in the frame.
The one they already created already needs four really strong people to lift it Plus it looks pretty badass to me. I love the design if it. I also think it'd look very cheesy and OTT if they did the one described exactly in the books. Impractical, cheesy and wouldn't have people taking it seriously
Teebz 1000 Exactly. Thats the point. The Iron Throne does not matter. The White Walkers is what matters. Its like Jeor Mormont says When Winter comes and the dead rise do you think anyone will care about who sits on the Iron Throne
You are my most favourite movie-related TH-camr! I love how you always think through your videos in every little detail. very nice produced! And so far I have learned so much just from watching your videos. Movies are so much more to me now
was waiting for the use of the chairs in up for examples. was *not* expecting to hear black star, kendrick, AND raekwon. what are you doing to my heart tony
You are such an inspiration... every time I need to direct something, I always take some hours and take a look at your videos to inspire me more.. Please dont you ever stop doing this, its so nice to have someone to trust.. And you Sir, have our trust for sure.. :)
I think you are evading making an *screenplay-oriented* video. The internet needs it; There's already a lot about directing, editing and cinematography... And there's so much to study when it comes to dialogue, plot-lines, structure, character "shaping". Oh, you're an editor and writing is not your area of knowledge? Aww... I'll play the *"I dare you"* game.
Daniel Rosa The channel is called "Every FRAME a Painting." I don't think his intention was ever to make a writing oriented channel with a name like that. It's about being able to encapsulate the basis of what a film is about through either a single image or several. He shows how a character or a story can develop through a series of images, be they different or similar. Film is images, literally. It's about taking full advantage of the visual scope of films and he does it better then pretty much anybody else; clear, concise and easy to get, right off the bat. Yes, there are plenty of videos about directing, editing and cinematography but he makes them so that people listen closer than most others. Not to mention you're implying that Tony is somehow worse by not being a writer. Fincher doesn't write. Tim Burton doesn't write. Steven Soderbergh. Sam Mendes. Correct me if I'm wrong but you come off as being disgustingly condescending with that little "Aw..." you put near the end of the comment. He's not evading anything; it's that he doesn't WANT to. For him, the image is just about everything in cinema, and that if you feel that cinema as a whole is primarily about dialogue, it may as well just be theatre, a different art form entirely, at least, in terms of execution. He has stated that what he does, as a video essayist is mostly about the picture, hence the term "motion picture," and that he does not focus on writing. So don't assume he avoids it because he doesn't have the balls; if you were stuck in a room to perform a surgical operation and you said you didn't know how and they told you "I'll play the I dare you game," do you think you'd succeed?
Robert Lugo Yes, I agree with you. I know what the channel is about, and I know where it can go that it hasn't gone yet. If you pay attention, I carefully chose my words, in a playful way, but meaning it, because I want the best for it. I'm sure Tony will get it and appretiate it :)
Im too impatient to have this channel be my favorite! The waiting kills. I check for new videos daily! Thanks for making this so much a part of me and making it so though provoking. This channel brings up many interesting topics and makes me think more as a film maker while watching the video and when filming, editing, etc.
This is maybe a lesser effort from "Every Frame a Painting", but only because he's set the bar _so high_ with his other video essays. (Or maybe I'm just bummed that he left out Alan Cumming's throne in _Titus:_ www.oocities.org/emcee_lulu/alanthrone2.jpg )
A bit off topic. 1:05 Cabaret chair: Thonet (bent wood, 1854 Vienna) First flat-pack furniture. Most widely produced chair in history (but those white plastic ones will overwhelm them) The reason it's used in Cabaret is Marline Dietrich featured one in The Blue Angel (and later Madonna in a Louis Vitton ad)/ These chairs were everywhere in Europe and the Americas. I have two on my front porch, I remember them from when I was a child, in college, in L'Atalante. Curiously there are no Thonet chairs in The Third Man, shot on location in Vienna. Thonet chairs in more movies than horses, cars or guns. As a production design choice; often as not they're usually not much of a choice.
You are excellent Tony! Giving meaning to something that seems so simple... You show us not just the tree, but the whole forest. Don't stop doing what you do man, keep awesome. Hugs from Argentina!
I'm very impressed how you can elaborate on such simple prop as a chair and make me look at movies and film in a whole new way.
absolutely agree
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chairs and stools*
Dude. You made chairs interesting....
I was expecting the intro to be someting like: "Hi, my name is Tony, and this is Every Frame a Painting. Now, have a seat, because today, we'll be discussing chairs."
Mateus Murozaki I'm just going to pretend that Tony hires you for the writing staff, now. ;3
Mateus Murozaki Damn, that would have been perfect!
Next time, we'll talk about tables.
Happ MacDonald I like to pretend that sometimes too.
***** Thanks!
This is the only channel where I don't mind the extended breaks between uploads. I know it's all because of quality.
JoeBlo2 One of the oldest rules in show biz: keep them wanting more.
JoeBlo2 CGP Grey?
JoeBlo2 This is and YMS. Only channels that put A LOT of effort into videos, hence why the breaks between vids
I did but we're a year in now
guys the channel is no longer working. sorry to say it but it´s the truth.
Awesome analysis! I love the wide range of movies you use as examples.
Oh man, I approve so hard.
Lazy Game Reviews lol
Lazy Game Reviews Oh, hey Clint!
I remember watching your mine craft video the first time you uploaded. good days
+Lazy Game Reviews i was thinking about you when I watched this haha
Lazy Game Reviews duddde i just discovered both this and your channel and have been binging em both
You ever notice that in Up, the Carl's face becomes more square when Ellie dies, but is rounder at the end? Someone pointed that out to me once.
yes but i dont get the idea behind it
Every Frame a Painting has taught me more about film than any of my college classes. Such a great resource
What shitty college are you going to?
I hate that you've left us, but I love that you've left us these videos. I will keep coming back, a couple times a year it seems, and re-watching these videos, for as long as I can. You left a gift for us all, and I hope that whatever you're up to these days, you're loving it!
Referencing 'Up'; way to make me tear up during a very good essay on production design.
Every time I look at a scene from the first 5 minutes of Up, a part of me dies and I curse Pixar.
Those jokes with the chairs that you pointed out were really interesting.
Mainly the Chaplin one. This reminds me of how clowns are trained to use objects around them as a part of the staging they are in.
Many jokes were put together by just using chairs, mic stands, coats, suits and so on.
This channel is very rapidly becoming one of my favorites on TH-cam. Keep it up, love all your videos!
Your music choice is impeccable: Black Star, Kendrick, Wu-Tang…
i cant wait to chair this video with my friends
Get out.
+Tomas Canevaro i thought i asked you to stop dad...
ugh, you're such a Lazy Boy...
I couldn't chair less
Stop chairing your stupid jokes with us.
4:40-4:53 I like this sequence of editing. Notice how the chairs are moving. From still life to chaos and back to still life again. It's a clever method of editing--a way to suggest the editor having his fun like a child in a sand box, throwing around sand--except, here, chairs are being thrown around. And then a return to normality--the stillness of the chairs in the Matrix suggests the framing of his brief time of fun.
You make a video essay about chairs and it's the most interesting thing I've seen all day? Fuck man, that is talent right there.
As soon as i saw the title, I knew "Up" would be referenced. Those chairs so perfectly portray Karl and Ellie's characters. Great video, Tony. Keep up the great work!
Why is the Hiiipower's instrumental in the background
birdman1741 Sit in a chair and bump the song and try not to stand up. Can't be done.
Every Frame a Painting YESSSS thank you. Hiiipower just has such an upbeat tone and lyrics its hard to sit down. Dude keep on doing what you do. I love your channel so feeaking much. You really got me into studying different types of film.
birdman1741 Cheers man. In my earlier edits of this video, I actually used the instrumental of Hol' Up but decided that HiiiPower was a better fit. Everybody put three fingers in the aaaaaair.
Every Frame a Painting The sky is falling, the wind is calling, stand for something or die in the morning. Section 80, Hiipower
Every Frame a Painting Tony is a kendrick Lamar HOLY FRICK
Your videos are quickly becoming some of my favourite in TH-cam.
Your blowing my mind Tony, your blowing my MIND!
BeardedMovieGuy *you're
Congradulations, you get the perfect speller award! Way to go!
BeardedMovieGuy *Congratulations,
+BeardedMovieGuy
Shameful
Great, great, great video! I had never really paid any (conscious) attention to the chairs in the frame. That will change from now on. Thank you for sharing this!
great instrumental choices
and what happen to the copyright?
it's under fair use
It's under fair use but he doesn't monetize his videos, he lets people donate to his patreon instead.
Dude. You blow me away, every time.
I watch most of your essays 2-3 times (or more) & often end up watching/rewatching movies you discuss. Like the week long Kurosawa binge I went on a while back.
You always do a great job & always make me think.
Thanks
This video has become a staple in my undergrad semiotics course. It makes concrete and visual all the abstract theory I'm trying to convey to my students. It's a wonderful video-essay!
The Up one destroyed me, thank you very much.
I'm binge watching your videos and I'm learning a lot. From now on when I watch movies and tv shows I'll be paying attention to many more details. Thank you!!
Bestchannel on TH-cam by far =)
This is the only channel that get's me excited about chairs.
Hey tony
I love your videos the Amount of detail and thought you put into them is amazing and I learn a Ton from them. Do you want the channel to grow in both scale and frequency(posting) or are you happy with how it is now?
ranzes infante I used to want these to come out on a regular schedule, but I've learned that the editing process is freakishly unpredictable. So I'm not sure anymore. I think the #1 priority for me is to make them good. It's really heartening to hear that people not only watch them once, but keep rewatching them. So at the very least, I want these videos to be good enough to sit through more than once.
***** Yes, Tony. Keep doing this amazing work and do not worry about a schedule.
Every Frame a Painting I've watched several of them multiple times and I've directed people to check out your channel. Great stuff. Thanks!
Every Frame a Painting Yeah your videos are great. I have watched every video multiple times.
CiciColino Same here. and the Edgar Wright essay too.
I feel like Tony is indirectly making an excellent point about filmmaking, how his videos take the seemingly most mundane aspects of life and/or movies (a fucking chair, for example), and making a fascinating video essay out of it. Much like how he pointed out how David Fincher is able to take otherwise mundane scenes of three people sitting in a room, talking, and making it cinematic....
I've always been fancy to the expression "there are no objects, only stories."
Everything has a story to tell if you look closely, even a chair.
I love how Every Frame a Chair made an entire video just discussing paintings
Only this channel is able to make me think about how great chairs are...
I was looking for this *exact* video for years, thanks for making this
This made me think of Nanny McPhee. In the director's commentary Emma Thompson talks in depth about the chair they got to represent the dead mother.
Even a video idea that sounds terrible, ends up perfect when it's on this channel. Another great video!
Great video man.
As someone who prides themselves on understanding the 'art of a scene' this is something I've NEVER thought about.
Especially that Godfather 2 Scene... damn...
Awesome topic, man. Loved it. I'm glad someone else pays attention to the weird details of set design as well, haha. I'm a big fan of rugs and lamps in movies.
I work in a school for kids where adults sit on children's chairs except for the director.
Your videos are some of the best film courses I could have asked for. Kudos.
what about that rocking chair from Psycho?
EVaP - 1 Dec 2017, RIP. Great job, Tony & Taylor
Would love to see a video on pacing. :)
He kinda did with the F for Fake video.
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All of these videos are so good and well thought out, this one is no exception
I sorta wish they had gone more book accurate for the Iron Throne where it is this huge crooked monstrosity that towers over the room and anyone wishing to sit in it actually has to climb a flight of stairs, made of swords of course, built into it. It would've sold the importance of the chair a lot more. But of course it would've cost at least double the money and made staging scenes around it a bit more complicated since anyone getting in or out of it would have to climb a bunch of stairs and everyone had to look up at them. I do like that they got around this by actually having the characters comment on how underwhelming the chair is and that there is no way the stated number of swords used in it's construction is accurate.
Fanny and Alexander has maybe the best chair scene ever!!
I got a notification for this video at the exact same time I was writing a character telling another to sit. Needless to say I feel I need to rethink the way in which this is done now.
Jon A Clearly, this character needs to sit on his head.
Every Frame a Painting Cronenberg would be proud of that mental image oO
I can never wait for your next video. Thank you so much for all the knowledge and freshness you bring to TH-cam and the indie film making community.
you just had to mention Up, didn't you? *cries for an hour*
This is so insightful. I write fiction, and in my stories I'm always writing the chair to match the scene or the character, or both. I never realized why until I watched your video. Thank you!
Having Bad Mis-en-scene will make everyone notice
Having Good Mis-en-scene will make everything unnoticeable.
Every single one of your videos changes my perception of how I view TV and film. I'm a TV graduate but your insightful videos and your attention to detail in your video essays astound me and inspire me. Thank you.
Where was Dr. Strangelove? A fine chair performance.
Another fantastic video! This is easily becoming my new favourite channel!
Tony, how do you do research for your videos?
Love it, keep up the good work :)
Since I found this channel by accident, I really am amazed by how much you can find out and analyze! Great Job :)
I was expecting that Social Network scene where Fincher directly shows an empty chair resembling mark's ex best friend
Pablo Cueto Liñan I'm pretty sure he deliberately didn't use it because I'm pretty sure he already used it in the Fincher video.
A good writer doesn't reuse words if he can help it.
This is such a wonderful video. This is honestly one of my favorites so far. I love how you've picked what is ultimately not an inherently important thing, but a ubiquitous one, and shown how it can be made useful to the movie. Love it.
You are just fucking amazing man.
Man, your channel deserves more subscribers
4:01 - that's some fairly awkward framing! It does the job.
It's kinda awesome actually.
+Sid Brunski Kinda makes me feel uncomfortable, like sitting on a chair an having it breath out asthmatically
I don't see anything wrong with it, other than the fact that it is not completely straight. Maybe if it was to the left a bit?
Beautiful and inspiring as always, thank you for sharing!
I don't think this is weird at all. Great Essay on Production Design! I don't know if it fits here... But I had to think of that scene in "Rear Window" when Thorwald is slowly coming closer to James Stewart who is going back in his chair, flashing him with his camera.
Satirisch In a film thats all about the immobility of an injured man the chair is an extremely significant piece of the mise en scene. Very good point.
BollocksUtwat I couldn't have said it any better. ;)
loving your videos, especially that you're pointing out things not immediately apparent. great tunes too
wow! this much only about chairs... great... 👍
I meant the same Henry.. :)
Amazing. You just took a piece of production that I mostly considered to be trivial and showed that how much it can actually mean in the context of the film. With every video you make Tony, I learn more and more about the small but important nuances of cinema and I'm very grateful for that. Keep up the great work! :D
Fucking shit Tony, these videos are amazing
Quality as always. Keep up the great work Tony.
Lots of sitting in the Star Wars prequels.
Oh, I'd never thought about chairs this way before ! It will of course improve my productions in the future, your channel is by far the best about cinematography ! keep the good work, thanks !
Tony managed to make chairs interesting.
Kevin Nguyen No, many great directors did, he just pointed it out to you. ;)
You have easily become one of my favorite TH-camrs, man. I love your choice of instrumentals for your videos. Especially the hip-hop ones. Two of my favorite things in the world is Hip-Hop and Movies and you perfectly blend them in your editing and extreme knowledge of cinema. Much love and respect to you.
I can't believe, you didn't put the "too big chair" scene from Fargo in this video...
I love your videos. 5 minutes explaining what chair/sittig in a movie can tell about the world or the charachters it's just awesome. Thank you for the content!
You could extend this to all the things that the camera/actors interact with.
IGameChangerI Except that there aren't many props that are in almost every single movie. Therefore chairs serve as excellent examples to illustrate the broader point, which I believe he gestured at himself in the essay.
BollocksUtwat Cars, doors, clocks, phones, road signs, fences, etc. My favorite is mirrors.
I wasn't saying that chairs were a bad example, but they're just that: an example. They're not the only thing that this can be applied to.
IGameChangerI Except that many of those objects you described are very on the nose, obvious and hard to ignore. However, you (as in people) address a chair very oddly, rather than facing it you usually sit in it, putting your back to it.
Mirrors come close but they're trickier to work with and usually much less inconspicuous. A great example of one though is the scene in Drive that Tony mentions in his vid about that film.
I'd say chairs *are* the best example because they're the ones that have the most general utility regardless of the film while being inconspicuous. They're not just part of the background, they're seamlessly part of the environment (they belong in most rooms and we see lots of rooms in movies) and interacted with constantly. They're easily shoe horned into a moment so you can use them to say something whereas I dunno how you get a clock or a fence to illustrate Fredo's weakness and impotence.
I still think the chair is the best example to illustrate the broader point.
offtopic, a sidenote; mirrors can be used to serve an idea. consider for example Kubricks shining. it has a thing with mirrors. have a look.
Talking about details, I love how you indirectly express your love for hip hop music through your videos. From A Tribe Called Quest and RJD2 in the past to Black Star, K Dot, and Wu in this one. I love it.
Ironic thing is that George R R Martin imagined the throne in GoT as being far more impressive than the crummy little thing on the HBO production. If you look at the renderings of his version of it you'll understand what he means by it was supposed to look so imposing that it should always leave every king who sits on it feeling ill at ease over the power he wields, or something to that effect.
***** I don't think so. They probably only did it for practicality purposes, ie. shooting and having character interactions around a small chair is easier than a monstrous one that only allows one actor to be in the frame.
The one they already created already needs four really strong people to lift it
Plus it looks pretty badass to me. I love the design if it. I also think it'd look very cheesy and OTT if they did the one described exactly in the books. Impractical, cheesy and wouldn't have people taking it seriously
Teebz 1000 I think the right designer could pull it off.
Teebz 1000 Exactly. Thats the point. The Iron Throne does not matter. The White Walkers is what matters. Its like Jeor Mormont says When Winter comes and the dead rise do you think anyone will care about who sits on the Iron Throne
Tony, you're a genius. Every video a masterpiece.
WatchMojo should have a top 10 chairs in film list :D
My favourite series ever. Please continue !!
I turned on the CC and I'm not seeing the movie titles as the audio suggests, just the narration with the occasional unparsed [br] line breaks tag.
+Toxic Crayon Go into the options menu, select "subtitles", and choose "English - Movie titles".
You are my most favourite movie-related TH-camr! I love how you always think through your videos in every little detail. very nice produced! And so far I have learned so much just from watching your videos. Movies are so much more to me now
chairs are nice
was waiting for the use of the chairs in up for examples.
was *not* expecting to hear black star, kendrick, AND raekwon. what are you doing to my heart tony
Do a video about Ingemar Bergman :)
Really great analysis - love your videos Tony!
the CC button isnt giving me the names of the films rather just the subtitles
Click the settings icon and change the subtitle track. There is one labeled "English (United States) - Movie Titles"
You are such an inspiration...
every time I need to direct something, I always take some hours and take a look at your videos to inspire me more..
Please dont you ever stop doing this, its so nice to have someone to trust..
And you Sir, have our trust for sure.. :)
I think you are evading making an *screenplay-oriented* video. The internet needs it; There's already a lot about directing, editing and cinematography... And there's so much to study when it comes to dialogue, plot-lines, structure, character "shaping".
Oh, you're an editor and writing is not your area of knowledge? Aww...
I'll play the *"I dare you"* game.
Daniel Rosa The channel is called "Every FRAME a Painting." I don't think his intention was ever to make a writing oriented channel with a name like that. It's about being able to encapsulate the basis of what a film is about through either a single image or several.
He shows how a character or a story can develop through a series of images, be they different or similar.
Film is images, literally. It's about taking full advantage of the visual scope of films and he does it better then pretty much anybody else; clear, concise and easy to get, right off the bat. Yes, there are plenty of videos about directing, editing and cinematography but he makes them so that people listen closer than most others.
Not to mention you're implying that Tony is somehow worse by not being a writer. Fincher doesn't write. Tim Burton doesn't write. Steven Soderbergh. Sam Mendes. Correct me if I'm wrong but you come off as being disgustingly condescending with that little "Aw..." you put near the end of the comment.
He's not evading anything; it's that he doesn't WANT to. For him, the image is just about everything in cinema, and that if you feel that cinema as a whole is primarily about dialogue, it may as well just be theatre, a different art form entirely, at least, in terms of execution.
He has stated that what he does, as a video essayist is mostly about the picture, hence the term "motion picture," and that he does not focus on writing.
So don't assume he avoids it because he doesn't have the balls; if you were stuck in a room to perform a surgical operation and you said you didn't know how and they told you "I'll play the I dare you game," do you think you'd succeed?
Daniel Rosa Unfortunately you're too ignorant to check Tony's F for Fake video essay. Oh well.
iNinja Walker
I... am a fan since his first video. Why the aggressiveness?
Robert Lugo
Yes, I agree with you. I know what the channel is about, and I know where it can go that it hasn't gone yet. If you pay attention, I carefully chose my words, in a playful way, but meaning it, because I want the best for it. I'm sure Tony will get it and appretiate it :)
Why don't you get it, folks? And why all the mean assumptions?
Im too impatient to have this channel be my favorite! The waiting kills. I check for new videos daily! Thanks for making this so much a part of me and making it so though provoking. This channel brings up many interesting topics and makes me think more as a film maker while watching the video and when filming, editing, etc.
This is maybe a lesser effort from "Every Frame a Painting", but only because he's set the bar _so high_ with his other video essays. (Or maybe I'm just bummed that he left out Alan Cumming's throne in _Titus:_ www.oocities.org/emcee_lulu/alanthrone2.jpg )
_Memories of Murder_ (see the clip at about 0:50) is a fantastic (Korean) film.
I really liked his _Mother_ and really, really didn't like _Snowpiercer._ I haven't seen _The Host_ yet, nor _Memories of Murder._
+Allen Knutson Did you appreciate Snowpiercer a bit more after his analysis.
? I'm not sure I've seen that analysis. But I imagine that the things he'll point out won't relate to the stuff I didn't like.
A bit off topic. 1:05 Cabaret chair: Thonet (bent wood, 1854 Vienna) First flat-pack furniture. Most widely produced chair in history (but those white plastic ones will overwhelm them) The reason it's used in Cabaret is Marline Dietrich featured one in The Blue Angel (and later Madonna in a Louis Vitton ad)/ These chairs were everywhere in Europe and the Americas. I have two on my front porch, I remember them from when I was a child, in college, in L'Atalante. Curiously there are no Thonet chairs in The Third Man, shot on location in Vienna. Thonet chairs in more movies than horses, cars or guns. As a production design choice; often as not they're usually not much of a choice.
Where did the Wolf Children video go?
Tiago Miranda twitter.com/tonyszhou/status/613387846947221504
Ah, my bad, don't have a twitter account!
Thanks man! Love your work!
luckily it's back
+Kram1032 สค
Probably Tony's best video, every now and then I rewatch it.
Out of curiosity, how long does it take to produce a video like this?
Greta Taurus Three weeks for this one (and it's short). Longest period was Kurosawa, which took nearly 8 weeks.
Every Frame a Painting Kurosawa would be proud
Every Frame a Painting Thank you for taking your time, love your teachings.
Every Frame a Painting Well Kurosawa's most certainly a subject who deserves extra time, to be sure.
Amazing video as always
Do a video about Christopher Nolans style of flashbacks!
Cavers They remind me a lot of how Terrence Malick shoots his movies.
Cavers nolan sucks
It's actually have one of Nolan's most overused and weaker gimmicks.
CaversITT: being abnormally harsh towards Nolan because he is popular
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*because he isn't nearly as good as his fanboys think
You are excellent Tony!
Giving meaning to something that seems so simple... You show us not just the tree, but the whole forest.
Don't stop doing what you do man, keep awesome. Hugs from Argentina!
Wow! Gravity Falls!
I'm an up coming film maker and I find your content very interesting it helps a lot!
Please upload more often love your work.