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:). I THINK that scratch film junkies are very very interesting. By this, I mean that they are interesting people. Basically, their version of ARTAY (art in latin) is basically manipulating film and cutting it all together. By manipulating film, I mean just doing shit to it, whether or not there is a goal intended. Painters normally do this when they are drunk I am sure. What I am trying to say, is that as opposed to Stan Brakhage, these guys are little newbies. It is cool and aesthetically pleasing, but it gets so irritating. Not only is the soundtrack typically irritating in a scratch film junkies film, you get a sense that "hey, these guys are kooky and totally themselves and are expressing themselves in a big city where people attempt to one up each other in terms of 'art' and whether or not they create something 'original'." Basically, I would hate these guys if I met them in real life. Well, hate is a strong word. These guys seem just like goobs. By goobs, I mean pretty worthless when it comes to asking their opinion about anything that is 'important'. Not that I don't think they could possibly give good advice, but when their masterpieces or thrust of life comes in the form of just fucking with film and thinking its awesome, I don't know if I would trust them on whether or not to buy a morning after pill for a girlfriend when I have like no cash, but shit. I don't know. Fuck scratch film junkies. No offense to them though. Their shit is kind of cool. For one minute.

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KANYE WEST "Welcome To Heartbreak" Directed by Nabil from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

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Let me first start off by describing my unfathomable love for jpegs. I fucking love jpegs. I think they add more to film than sound. Call me crazy but I think that during a scene where a woman is thinking of jumping off a cliff but decides that she loves life and that jumping off a cliff is dumb and decides to walk, a picture in picture jpeg of a puppy doing something silly would be a lot better than a relieving score climbing into our ears. BUHREALLYDO, I think sound is quite awesome too. I think that The Fountain shows off how awesome sound is. Clint Mansell, master of sick ass soundtracks, does the score for it. Who is Clint Mansell? You've probably heard his song that he scored for Requiem for a Dream. Its played on every fucking 'epic' 'altbro' movie trailer ever. More specifically, the two towers trailer. whatever. ANYWHO, this guy Clint started as just a college kid playing electronic music in an electronic band, no real formal orchestral training, and decides to just all out pwn filmgoer's ears by making the sickest soundtracks ever. The score for The Fountain is like a phrase or two, repeated and played different as the film progresses. This repitition, as seen in a lot of electro/techno music (note Clint's backgrounds), instills a certain feeling in us. This feeling is accessed during different points of the film to help us subtly or subconsciously relate to it. This is AWESOME for The Fountain, as it is basically a movie of 3 different time periods with the same characters. They dont live the same life, but you are supposed to infer that they are connected. During the midevil aspect, there would be an epic midevil version of the phrase, a more symphonic version of the phrase in the present, and a super intense version of it during the future. This referencing and repetition is basically the future of movie scoring and is totally refreshing. I put all this forth because I think everything described in the article is a "duh" so I wanted to use that and add a new way music and sound could help us while watching a film. IT CAN HELP US TRAVEL THROUGH TIME. Holla back.