My favorite movie of all time is Scarface.
It is my favorite film because I found the story line to be exceptionally great, and it really could capture the viewers attention with many of its graphic, yet amazingly well directed scenes. I found that the director (Brian Depalma) did an excellent job bringing the somewhat historically true story line to life, and the main actor (Al Pacino) also did a wonderful job portraying the role of Tony Montana, a Cuban immigrant coming to live the American dream in Miami who ends up climbing his way to the top. But who also did a great job putting it all together was the editor of the film, Gerald B. Greenberg. Although Gerald isn't as well known as the director or main actors of the film, he still had an incredibly important job in the making of Scarface, Editing. Why is it so important? Its important because without editing, all you have is a bunch of scramble shots, editing is needed not only to put all the shots together, but to really build the support and foundation of the film and to improve the way we all see our favorite movies. The way I look at it is that making a movie is like making a house, the shots are just the wood and stone scrambled around doing nothing. The editing is the nails and cement that puts them all together, and actually creates a full on house. And so that is why editing is important.
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Nice analogy regarding editing being "the nails and cement that puts them all together." Scarface is indeed a wonderful film, but unfortunately a little too racy to show to the class!
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