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ON Departments of Cinema(Cinema is application of theory-Ace Indian Cinematographer P.C.Sreeram)

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The animation which i was interested in early days,this photo is an outcome of my interests..hope the heroine forgives me:) Just like this,movies are just wishful distortion of fancies,facts animated to satisfy us emotionally.. I can never agree that director should be the first person to be credited against the movie,director job is justifying the script and enhancing it on execution.The first importance in a movie team should be given to writer and second to actor.Guys like Speilberg are powerful and smart to grab the right scripts and associate their name with them...what great deal in directing ,its just passion and trial and error mechanism,story board,camera position are just a confirmity of execution.Some might say that,except anyone can write a screenplay. It takes a master filmmaker with SKILL to actually put it on screen effectively.People who support that directors contribution to cinema is high might say,a lot of times, the script for a film won't even be ve

ON American Wanderer Christopher McCandless

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Christopher Johnson McCandless (12 February 1968 – 18 August 1992) was an American wanderer who hiked into the Alaskan wilderness with little food and equipment, hoping to live a period of solitude. Less than five months later, he died of starvation near Denali National Park. In 1996, Jon Krakauer wrote a book about his life, Into the Wild, which inspired a 2007 film of the same name. CM quotes below to know what he is into: Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and