Being a columnist in one of the most popular and prestigious newspapers like The New York Times would be everyone’s dream. Personally, I could not imagine this as I believe this career requires creativity to generate a piece of writing regularly. However, if I had a chance to produce essays on a particular topic in The New York Times, I would like to review disparate kinds of movies because I have considered myself a universal movie lover since I was a child.
To begin with, although it might be a bit difficult in the beginning to start writing a movie review in that newspaper, I would tend to start with family films such as the Harry Potter ones, which I really liked when I was in primary school. One of the reasons I want to write it is that I assume many of the newspaper’s readers may be adults or older; therefore, I think some of them will feel nostalgic and want to think back to when they were a child and watched these kinds of films with their old friends or family. Moreover, the Harry Potter series is one of my most favorite franchises according to my own preferences.
However, I do not want to stick with only one type of movie that I would write about. It is better to show my different interests and tastes through movies I have watched to the readers of this column. The Godfather would be a perfect film I would review as it has been recognized as the most valuable and greatest movie in human history, and I spent almost a decade before being able to feel its original value clearly. To be totally upfront, my friends recommended this movie to me when I was around 10, but after I had watched the legendary film, I did not like it at first and felt it made me sleepy as there was no exciting action scene similar to superhero movies. But between five to ten years later, I thought I was ready and old enough to watch and understand the hidden details from this renowned movie again, and finally, I agreed with other fans that it is appropriate to be one of the legendary movies.
Another movie category that I would prefer to review if I were a columnist would be animations. I was interested in doing traditional cartoons by bringing hundreds of papers with slightly different motions of characters in each piece of paper and flipping them to see the movements of the characters. Nowadays, the process of creating cartoons has been changed and developed significantly due to computers, and there are more advanced animations created by famous studios. In my opinion, it is much easier to transform screenplays to animations because of realistic limitations in live-action. Therefore, some scenes beyond imagination can be composed by computer graphic software in a few clicks, and this might save time and costs of props or models, which might be easily broken and expensive.
In conclusion, it is well-known that being a columnist in The New York Times is difficult. However, if I had an opportunity to do that duty, I would provide fantastic movie reviews to demonstrate my personal interests.
Watching movies is one thing I do for pleasure. Since I was a kid, my father has limited me to seeing just one movie per day. I wasn't happy with my dad's rules at that time. When I grew up enough to make my decision, I decided to watch the whole series in one night. I could say I am very obsessed with seeing movies. At present, I try not to click to start the first episode of any series.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I prefer watching, not reviewing. I believe I saw The Godfather, but I can not remember the whole movie. After I finish reading your essay, I will consider watching it again.
Have you seen Forest Gump and The Shawshank Redemption? Both are the best films I have ever seen.
I love watching movies. Before the pandemic, I would find myself at the cinema almost every weekends. Personally, I don't have a specific type of movies that I like. I love watching all of them! I also love reading movies reviews too! Knowing other opinions and thoughts on the movie help me to learn more about that movie and to expand my perspective. I must say that I would love to read your column.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen The Godfather before, but I'll try!
Hi Good, it is interesting to know that you would like to write about reviewing movies for The New York Times. I though about that on my first draft too, but I gave up and wrote about The Learning Network. If I were a columnist who writes movies review for the newspaper, I would review drama and comedy movies, because they are my favorite genre. Recently, I have been addicted to watching 'Modern Family' on Disney+. In some ways, I have found it very funny.
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