Altman: the director

I really enjoyed the Robert Altman unit in art of film. I loved every movie. Altman has a very distinctive style and i really like it. There wasn't one movie that i didn't like. Yes I even liked Nashville!!! I think that I'm the only one who liked it! I loved that the movie had no plot. I thought that made it ubur intriguing. I thought he made the characters feel very real. Yes he was making fun of them but I thought we got a better understanding of the characters that way.

Altman is very good at giving a realistic feel to his movies. You feel like you know the characters and in a way part of the story. I felt that way in The Long Goodbye and The Player.

My favorite movie out of all of them had to of been The Player. I loved the plot, a movie in a movie. I thought it was very creative and i loved all the celebrity cameos in the movie.

Altman definitely has a distinctive style. In all three films he started the same way. He started with a long distance shot and slowly zoomed in to the story. Most of the time it was in mid conversation on one or more of the main characters. And to end his films he did the exact opposite. He pulls away from characters in mid conversation and then goes back into a long distance shot.