The Good German is different from most of Steven Soderbergh's films. The Good German is about While in post-war Berlin to cover the Potsdam Conference, an American military journalist (George Clooney) is drawn into a murder investigation which involves his former mistress (Cate Blanchett) and his driver (Tobey Macguire).
OMG it is in black and white!! I don't mind black and white back when they didn't have color but now why use it. When i first saw that it was black and white I was ready to shut the film off and pick another movie! But I decided that I will give it 30 minutes! And i am glad that i did! I really enjoyed this movie despite critics and most people not liking it! I thought Steven Soderbergh did a wonderful job of capturing the time period and the type of directing of the time period. It is very stylized, if the picture was just a little more fuzzy it could totally pass for being made in the 1940s. You can tell they shot a lot of the scenes on sound stages and back lots. Even though the style of the movie is right on I agree with a lot of critics when they said, there isn't enough character development. The characters I believe are 2 dimensional. You feel like they don't change through out the movie. They stay basically the same, which is really boring for a film. It may relate more to real life, but it doesn't work well for a movie.
I found as i was watching the movie there was a lot of rapid cuts and transitions for dialogue. Which reminded of a lot of old movies of time period. Also there were a lot of medium shots that focused in on characters. When there was dramatic moment Soderbergh would zoom in on the characters reactions.
A major theme in the movie is guilt. No one in this film is completely innocent. Everyone does something bad to get what they want. But the results from this is that everyone feels guilty or they are guilty. Each character feels some type of guilt.
A quote i really enjoyed was said by George Clooney,"ah yes the good old days...when you could tell the bad guy was the one shooting at you!" I thought that was a really good point. Bad guys have become way more complicated. They aren't as simple as they use to be.
In my opinion Steven Soderbergh a lot of times changes his own style to fit the film. The movie is his style. Not his style is the movie. I don't know if you understand what i am saying. But i will try to explain it. A lot of directors have a very distinctive style like Tim Burton. Just by looking at the movie you know that it is a Burton film his style is the movie. But if you look at a Steven Soderbergh's films you can't tell that it is his movie. He becomes part of the movie. I feel he tries to tell that story and he doesn't want to add his own personal flair to it. He becomes part of the film and the movie turns into his style. Does that make any sense?!?!?!
I don't know that is just an opinion. I'm i completely wrong? Or I'm i right?What are your thoughts on that concept?
OMG it is in black and white!! I don't mind black and white back when they didn't have color but now why use it. When i first saw that it was black and white I was ready to shut the film off and pick another movie! But I decided that I will give it 30 minutes! And i am glad that i did! I really enjoyed this movie despite critics and most people not liking it! I thought Steven Soderbergh did a wonderful job of capturing the time period and the type of directing of the time period. It is very stylized, if the picture was just a little more fuzzy it could totally pass for being made in the 1940s. You can tell they shot a lot of the scenes on sound stages and back lots. Even though the style of the movie is right on I agree with a lot of critics when they said, there isn't enough character development. The characters I believe are 2 dimensional. You feel like they don't change through out the movie. They stay basically the same, which is really boring for a film. It may relate more to real life, but it doesn't work well for a movie.
I found as i was watching the movie there was a lot of rapid cuts and transitions for dialogue. Which reminded of a lot of old movies of time period. Also there were a lot of medium shots that focused in on characters. When there was dramatic moment Soderbergh would zoom in on the characters reactions.
A major theme in the movie is guilt. No one in this film is completely innocent. Everyone does something bad to get what they want. But the results from this is that everyone feels guilty or they are guilty. Each character feels some type of guilt.
A quote i really enjoyed was said by George Clooney,"ah yes the good old days...when you could tell the bad guy was the one shooting at you!" I thought that was a really good point. Bad guys have become way more complicated. They aren't as simple as they use to be.
In my opinion Steven Soderbergh a lot of times changes his own style to fit the film. The movie is his style. Not his style is the movie. I don't know if you understand what i am saying. But i will try to explain it. A lot of directors have a very distinctive style like Tim Burton. Just by looking at the movie you know that it is a Burton film his style is the movie. But if you look at a Steven Soderbergh's films you can't tell that it is his movie. He becomes part of the movie. I feel he tries to tell that story and he doesn't want to add his own personal flair to it. He becomes part of the film and the movie turns into his style. Does that make any sense?!?!?!
I don't know that is just an opinion. I'm i completely wrong? Or I'm i right?What are your thoughts on that concept?
