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Great video!

"Style is when you begin stealing from yourself." --Alfred Hitchcock

You’ve successfully made the argument against Welles’ statement - there is so much to be learned from the possibility of cinema by movies (or rather anything visual) made before you. I think that, usually when starting out, students of film will often seek out all these shot decks from previous movies and every piece of their film is an homage. But I also think that can be one of the best ways to learn (because you’ll eventually understand why it works).

I think a good director and writer, beyond all odds, go into projects believing they can achieve originality. I think anybody who sets out with the mindset that everything has been made screw it let’s do something, that’s just incorrect

Wait these are all recalling from a previous film but the “previous” film would be the original? So yeah there’s originality

This is such a great channel-please keep going!

Don't agree with that concept, the original must be cherished and the "homage" crowd and the "stealing" bros have to give credit to the original, otherwise it feels theft tbh.

Maybe a stretch, but I think the sound of the floor polisher could also foreshadow the sound of the tattoo machine later

Everything is a remix (redux) (2024 edition) (hd) (new, never before seen footage) great work guys

Anyone know the music at 12:30?

When Baron Harkonen came out of the goo I literally stood up for a second in the theatre before promptly planting my ass back down

Perhaps when a director steals something, it's to make themselves look good at the expense of someone else's creativity. To use inspiration from other sources to make your piece work though, is more of a collaboration and an homage

Beautiful video, makes me inspired to create!!!!!!

17:20 -- this move,ent remind me soviet film Soy Cuba, one of the greatest camera works in cinema history

"Star Wars" was one of the worst things that's ever happened to Hollywood. A complete disaster for thought-provoking filmmaking.

The problem is when people are ignorant of world cinema and film history and think someone like Tarentino is "original" and "a genius." He's obviously a talented filmmaker, so it's too bad he wastes it on mainly juvenile content and silly revenge fantasies. I just don't think he has it in him to make a mature film like "Tokyo Story" or "Five Easy Pieces."

I'm not forgiving y'all for ruining "The worst person in the world" for me

Great work! Great channel - subscribed :)

Movies fucking rock.

You misunderstood the point Welles was making with homage. The first generation of filmmakers drew almost all of their inspiration from outside the world of film - and created new cinematic language as a functional way to translate those inspirations to film. Welles himself famously came from theatre and radio, and directed "Citizen Kane" with what he described as complete ignorance of filmmaking. But beginning around the 1960s, a new generation of filmmakers were emerging that had been raised on film and took a lot of their inspiration from it. Some of their work celebrated cinematic language itself, rather than using it as a tool to convey something with it. Sort of like doing an impression of Einstein to evoke the emotional response to intelligence, rather than saying something intelligent. This is fine in small doses, and in the early years this fresh perspective of the film school generation gave rise to a lot of new and exciting filmmaking - but by the time Welles gave that speech, homage had become an ouroboros. Film, as a cultural institution, had started down the path self-awareness and self-referentialism - which is the deathknell of an artform. In-jokes and meta references may be fun for people who're already fully-immersed in a subculture, but to everyone else they're tedious and annoying. That's not to say filmmakers shouldn't draw inspiration from cinema - nor that people shouldn't do impressions. When done properly, both can elevate and entertain in a unique and interesting way. But it takes very little to overdo it, and when overdone it quickly becomes cringeworthy. That's why Welles made such a big point in his speech for the students to seek adventures outside of the filmmaking bubble. The idea being art comes from the struggle to translate a unique experience into the medium of film - and in order to do that, you need have those experiences first.

What an amazing video!!! Keep it up!!!

"The difference between an artist and a great artist is the great artist never reveals who he stole from". Pablo Picasso

The great Quentin Tarantino himself admitted that he steals from everyone. He even once said if you’re not stealing from the greats you’re doing it wrong.

Then there's George Lucas who just steals and says it's his

Idk if I agree with your interpretation of Welles, Homage as he defines it is much more about cueing in an audience through reference and not as taking inspiration. I think another issue he raises in that talk (it’s been years but I remember it fairly clearly) is the fact that these filmmakers only refer to film and not other art, which handicaps them

The obsession with “Don’t Look Now” is amazing. Great fucking film. Masterclass in editing

This was such a good video. Thank you so much.

With a little research one may find Orson Welles' comment about homages was itself an homage - with all the irony he often intended. Maybe.

This video was so well done and informative. Thank you for sharing it. It's the first video I have seen from your channel, and it prompted me to subscribe.

Subscribed - what a video !

This is what people angry about A.I. learning is just how human creatives learn too.

This is a great piece of work, thank you for the effort. Subscribed!

can homage or tribute be in Musical Composition?... not 'sampling' like hip-hop or rap, but play it in a different tone or octave or notes decorations, eg, use a bridge part of Star Wars score and make it sound 'arabic'?... will composer get sued?

Like this comment so that I can rewatch this video time to time. I need it

Originally is when enough disparate elements are combined to create something never seen before. Copying 1 to 1 is lazy rip-off plagiarism. Understanding how many disalike things can cohesively work together to create something new is the action of originality.!

This was a great essay. I love getting more and more into classic films because you start noticing these references everywhere.

Huge fan of the 2.39:1 home release of an imax

Under the Skin is wild. Scarlett was 💯💯

Brilliant video essay. You bring so many threads together to illustrate the story. Great effort, wonderful result :)

I thought this was a video about directors that are under the influence of drugs or alcohol while directing, and how that's unoriginal and bad. Glad this turned out to be what it is lol.

No story is original, it all come from something. You decide which is inspiration, you decide which is plagiarism

The under the skin reference is also on Get Out and Kendrick Lamar's Swimming Pools music video

Love the comment about transformers by the director of The Worst Person of the Word

Wow you really capture interconnected moments and influences with top notch meanings. That's a hard thing to do. Thank you

This is exactly how I try to look at films in the big picture, thank you for this wonderful piece.

2:58 Federico Fellini was part of the... FRENCH New Wave??

Amazing edit, music selection and voice over. The ending montage gave me chills. Loved it!

Fantastic video, excellent work as always 😄

The only way I could see myself directing is under the influence. Completely hammered and fucking landing every scene with sheer alcoholic confidence.

"A guy who builds nice chairs doesn't owe money to everyone who has built a chair.". This line from The Social Network comes to mind whenever someone criticizes a film for taking an element from another film. I heard this a lot about Inception stealing from Paprika. They are 2 different films from different countries and industries that inspired eachother. I recently had this experience myself of writing a screenplay and once I finished and watched some of my favorite films and realized I took so many of the elements from them but I wasn't consciously doing it when I was writing it. It was a mix of many. All artforms are like Jackson Pollock's painting. Each paint splatters is original and unique layered on top of one another to form a whole artwork, one cannot be complete without the other and it's something that is never finished. This is by far your best video. Love it! I'm glad you're continuing to make these. Thank you.