Formula for Perfect Film

[Ghoul]

Academic Suggests Formula for Perfect Film


A British academic believes she has found the holy grail that all Hollywood seeks -- the recipe for making box office hits time after time.

As the movie world's movers and shakers gather in Cannes for the annual film festival, Sue Clayton from London University may be the answer to their prayers.

"I analyzed frame by frame what elements were present in different film genres and what made certain films successful," the lecturer in screen writing and directing said on Tuesday.

According to Clayton the blueprint for the perfect film is for it to have: 30 percent action, 17 percent comedy, 13 percent good versus evil, 12 percent sex/romance, 10 percent special effects, 10 percent plot and eight percent music.

Clayton, who is also a movie director, said she was careful to examine different film types.

"It was important to look at all film genres and not just the big box office winners -- that would have skewered the research," she told Reuters.

The study was based on watching and breaking down the components of a range of hits on the British screen from Brit-flicks "The Full Monty" and "Notting Hill" to U.S. blockbusters such as "Die Another Day" and "Titanic." Clayton said there were five basic film types -- Romantic Comedy, Comedy Caper, Action/Adventure, Epic/Romance and Special Effects/Fantasy.

While the movie "Shakespeare in Love" scored close to having the right combination of ingredients it could have done with more special effects, Clayton's research suggested.

As for the film that matched the recipe closest, that honor went to "Toy Story 2."


MOJE PITANJE JE: KAKO BI IZGLEDALA  V A Š A  FORMULA SAVRŠENOG ŽANROVSKOG FILMA?

[FilipKDick]

100%SF-a  
100 % Dobra Prica  
100% Dobra Picka

[Truba]

mislio sam nešto napisati ali pomislih da želite ozbiljne stvari
pa nisam htio

ali kad sam pročitao DICKOVO razmišljanje moram i ja dodati svoje:

60% dobrog SF-a
40% dobrog horora

i dobre grudi

šifra Event horison

[Ghoul]

Ghoul's formula for a great movie:

32,5 % of gruesome sadistic acts of violence and splatter

16,32 % of perverted alien pre-teen sex and noodity

24 % of slime, tentacles and elaborate organic transformations

14 % of pitch black humor laced with cynicism, mysoginy and blasphemy

11,18 % of profound existentialist issues with cosmic, metaphysical
overtones of Lovecraftian magnitude

2 % of instruments for operating on mutant women


All of this set to the tunes of electro/body and industrial music.

[taurus-jor]

Teško da bih imao neku svoju formulu, jer je formularnost smrt za umetnost. Ali rado bih producirao svaki film, koji bi bio rađen po Ghoulovom receptu. Posebno ako bi on radio scenario i režiju!!!  

[Ghoul]

Jore, nalazi pare, pa da snimamo!

[Truba]

koliko vam je para potrebno



dignut ću kredit da snimite niskobudžetni horor

naravno moje ime se mora pojaviti na ekranu

[Ghoul]

Ako misliš na STUDENTSKI kredit, zaboravi!

Za scene gnusnih transformacija trebaju nam dobri spec. efekti...

[Truba]

nisam mislio na studentski kredit


o kolikoj sumi novca ovdje govorimo

[marlowe]

ove komunjare su uvek pune novaca...