Movies That Inspire You to Write

dgiharris · Aug 14, 2008

We all get into ruts from time to time (See the Slug thread in Rejection/Dejection)

So when you are in a rut (or not) what movies do you like to watch.

More specifically, WHAT MOVIES INSPIRE YOU TO WRITE!!!

Doesn't matter if the movie is about writing or not. What movies gives you the inspiration to put your heart and soul into a work of art?

For me,

1) Hustle and Flow
2) Just Write

Both movies have great under dog themes, though Hustle and Flow may not be everyone's cup of tea, I find that it is a very inspirational movie with a message.

Anyways, What are some of your most inspirational films that get you in the mood to write the Great ***Insert name of host country*** Novel

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Mr Flibble · Aug 14, 2008

I can name you the film, nay the very scene, that inspired me to write in the first place. The Brave, final scene. Just....OMG. OMG.

Man that film screws with my brian - in a good way.

Shar-Jan · Aug 14, 2008

Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet.

I know its was a play originally but it is still a magnificent adaptation. Some frankly bizarre casting choices, some that work (Billy Crystal is a good gravedigger), others that don't (Robin Williams as Osric? Who the hell thought that was a good idea?).

It also benefits from making Elsinore this beautiful 18th century palace, it often gets very dark and murky but here it is thrown into full light with pomp and ceremony.

But it does still have that thing to it that you get when you see Hamlet done well. Kenneth Branagh is a great Hamlet, he really plays it so we see that there is a bit of Hamlet in all of us.

If I could create anything half as nuanced as the Bard, then I'll be happy.

Shadow_Ferret · Aug 14, 2008

Movies don't inspire me to write. They inspire me to veg out. I guess because I don't associate movies with writing. I associate books with writing. Movies I associate with escapism, me trying to get away from writing.

maestrowork · Aug 14, 2008

Movies make me want to make movies.

maxmordon · Aug 14, 2008

Terry Gilliam's Brazil

Gravity · Aug 14, 2008

Finding Forrester

maestrowork · Aug 14, 2008

I should add that some movies made me want to read the book (Atonement, for example) and the book then made me want to write.

soleary · Aug 14, 2008

Moonstruck

regdog · Aug 14, 2008

Ghost Dog

TheIT · Aug 14, 2008

The 10th Kingdom. Mini-series, not movie, but it's directly responsible for me starting to write. I loved the show, read the abysmal novelization, said to myself "I can write better than that", and reached for a pen. The rest is history...

KTC · Aug 14, 2008

I see a movie like HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS and I crave writing so bad I melt if I don't get me to a laptop. The family dynamic in that movie mesmerized me to the point of slack-jawed wonder. I loved it...movies like that one push me to be a better writer.

OctoberRain · Aug 15, 2008

soleary said:
Moonstruck

Ditto! And also Stand By Me.

Toothpaste · Aug 15, 2008

Any movie with authors, especially if the author works as a professor on a campus in a perpetual autumn. The author should wear sweaters and live in a really cozy house with books lining all the walls. It doesn't matter if the story itself is about how bad his/her life is, or how he/she will never get published . . . it still works for me!

BTW I'm being totally serious, anything that points up the romanticism of being an author makes the actress in me want to play pretend writer!

KTC · Aug 15, 2008

OctoberRain said:
Ditto! And also Stand By Me.

Ditto Stand By Me. Man, I love that movie! It makes me want to write that movie.

KTC · Aug 15, 2008

DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Big time.

willietheshakes · Aug 15, 2008

KTC said:
DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Big time.

Yup.

And Wonder Boys.

KTC · Aug 15, 2008

and Wonder Boys.

Woodsie · Aug 15, 2008

Good Will Hunting

Shar-Jan · Aug 16, 2008

Any movie with authors, especially if the author works as a professor on a campus in a perpetual autumn. The author should wear sweaters and live in a really cozy house with books lining all the walls. It doesn't matter if the story itself is about how bad his/her life is, or how he/she will never get published . . . it still works for me!

How about the Shining then?

giraffe! · Aug 16, 2008

Rocky IV.

'Just kidding.'

Buddikins · Aug 16, 2008

KTC said:
DEAD POETS SOCIETY. Big time.

Hmm not for me.

That inspired me to spend lunchtime in the toilets bawling my eyes out.

What can I say? I'm sensitive... And embarrassed. Many a person was talking about 'Moaning Myrtle' in the bathroom lol.

The movie that inspired me to write was Pirates, actually. Coz it's fun and action packed and just cool.

Not about pirates of course. I just want to have that level of escapism in my books, if that makes sense...

Buddikins · Aug 16, 2008

Shar-Jan said:
How about the Shining then?

Or just as good, the Secret Window??

Then you can incorporate lines from your book into the killings. Much more fun...

maestrowork · Aug 16, 2008

Really, I kept thinking about this and nothing came up. There are a lot of movies about writing I liked, but they never inspired me to write, for some reason. The one that got close was Shakespeare in Love because it made writing sound so romantic. Still, not really.

Zoombie · Aug 16, 2008

The World's Longest Music Video for QUEEN

The "Princes of the Universes" song just PUMPS ME UP! Just like...GRAH! <muscle flex>

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