Hi all,
In my sociology class, we were studying how the media affects us and we were going over how actually movies and their characters that you idolize shape your personality!! I was wonderinn' what movies do you think influenced who you are today?

thought it was kinda interesting!

Pippi Longstocking

She made me feel pretty.

Friday the 13th. Do I really need to explain?

~Zack~

Clockwork Orange

Tank Girl
Elvira Mistress of the Dark

Mule Skinner Blues

"Never be a wish-I-had"

I've been influenced by MANY movies.  I actually touched upon this in one of my blog entries from last year.  Check it out...

http://theworkingscreenwriter.blogspot.com/2007/02/movie-moments-part-1.html

Pulp Fiction and The Unforgiven.

Fight Club but I people started to stare at me in the street so I had to stop hitting myself...now I just go into town and let some chav do it for me!

Ferris Buelers' Day Off -- haha, life really does move too fast, and if you don't stop, look around once in a while you might miss it.

The Big Lebowski -- The above reason aswell.

Oh yeah the Big Lebowski made me think about my life and to relax, drink a white russian and appreciate a nice rug and more importantly how to...oh f##k it, lets go bowling.

That rug really tied the room together, did it not?!

I'm thinking either the Peaceful Warrior or Ferris Bueler's Day Off. For the exact same reason as stebrown said. The Peaceful Warrior is just a movie that I really took to heart.

By the way, I'm new here!

I don't know what script I should read first. Lol.

-James

Pulp Fiction

Crash, Pulp Fiction, Fargo... and many others.

The Big Chill.  It shows what you can do with good characterization and with no special effects.


Phil

Quoted from alffy Oh yeah the Big Lebowski made me think about my life and to relax, drink a white russian and appreciate a nice rug and more importantly how to...oh f##k it, lets go bowling.

Just love 'The Dude' man.  Jeff Bridges is class in this film.

Clerks, Shawshank R, Infernal Affairs

I can't think of a single movie that has influenced who I am today, but I can think of plenty that have influenced the way I write.

Quoted from sniper I can't think of a single movie that has influenced who I am today, but I can think of plenty that have influenced the way I write.

That is the first reply that I agree with.

All those darn Muppet movies I watched as a child. They had a huge impact on me.

Plus David Lynch and Miyazaki movies as a young adult.

Man, I could write stories about schizo plush toys and shag pile carpet stuffed creatures teaching young girls how to put together the perfect flower bouquet in poorly lit abbttoir.

But alas there is no market for it so what is the point.

Quoted from sniper I can't think of a single movie that has influenced who I am today, but I can think of plenty that have influenced the way I write.

I consider being a writer and the way that I write a part of me.  Who I am, and how I think, can be seen in what I write.


Phil

Moulin Rouge (it made me think about how lucky i am not to be in SAtine's posittion. it made me think about life and love)
Australia
Cold Mountain (its my favourite movie)
and the PETA docs (they made me educated about animals and made nme help them!)

^^ You sure do like Nicole Kidman films...

And what films have influenced me? Hmmm... That's a tought one. I'd say probably The Wackness - The main character was going through a lot of the same shit I was going through when I watched the film...

Sounds more fanboy than anything else.


Phil

No movie has influenced who I am. I was influenced by real life and real experiences.

As far as Kidman goes, I think she's beautiful, but has no sex appeal what so ever. She seems very cold and unfriendly. I liked her better when she was more natural like in DEAD CALM. That was a good movie and she seemed like a real person back then.  Natural rules in my book. Just MHO of course.

Dead Calm! I love that movie. And there isnt a Nicole Kidman movie that I haven't seen or that hasn't influenced me in someway! Mary-Kate Olsen was in the Wackness, I never got around to seeing it! What was it about?

Clerks - The guide of how to work in a dead-end job and not give a f***!

Flesh Gordon.  My first ever porn and very much responsible for the sick and twisted pervert I became.

Hahaha, top film!

I'm also in the persuasion of not being influenced, lifewise, by any movie, really. Have I found some tidbits in parts of some of them that were worth keeping in mind? Sure. But you get that out of any fiction, be it movie or novel. My first impression reading the question was that no film has made a significant enough impact on my life to say that it made me who I am.

The closest I think I have to this is the character of Spock from the Star Trek series. I don't know if I can say it was a positive influence, but I was always intrigued by his total logic and emotionlessness to the point that I am very much the same way. Not 100% since I do occasionally get illogical, but for the most part, I handle nearly everything with a cool logic and most of my responses are completely without emotion. My wife hates my lack of emotion.

One conversation went like this:

Her (really excited): Honey, I'm pregnant!
Me: Cool.

Now that was an upbeat cool, because I was happy, but I assure you there was no jumping around or announcing to the world that I was going to be a father (again). I'm just not like that.

So, if people arent influenced by films wat are hey influenced by?

Quoted from tonkatough Plus David Lynch...

Another one of my influences.

I guess one of them would be Watchmen

Bet I'll get slammed for that

Love it or hate it, it was a powerful movie

Quoted from Sparklingdiamond... So, if people arent influenced by films wat are hey influenced by?

Love, Hatred, Power, Greed, Revenge, Nicole Kidman

Quoted from Murphy Love, Hatred, Power, Greed, Revenge, Nicole Kidman

S normal and cliche until, Nicole Kidman! Huh? And I know life influences you. I ment like media stuffs...

Quoted from Sparklingdiamond... S normal and cliche until, Nicole Kidman! Huh? And I know life influences you. I ment like media stuffs...

I think Gary just threw in the Nicole Kidman reference to draw you out. . . .

Quoted from Sparklingdiamond... So, if people arent influenced by films wat are hey influenced by?

It depends on the influence you're referring to. The thread is "Movies that influenced WHO YOU ARE." Who I am is made up of my upbringing, my experiences, my decisions, and the consequences of those decisions. My choices dictate my lifestyle, and most of  those choices were directly influenced by my parents (whether I'm willing to admit it or not).

Now, if you're talking about style and such, then I can point to movie influences for some of them, but a lot of what I write is heavily influenced by who I am. For instance, I have three children, so I rarely write about children since I don't wish to put them in danger. If children are present, they are never so much as injured (they also aren't usually major characters). Why is this? Well, I know children are put in danger and they are hurt and even killed, but since I tend to feel for characters in stories, I don't want to put myself in the position to consider how I would feel if my own children were in those situations. That decision is not influenced by any movie at all.

I watch movies to see HOW to write things -- what works and what doesn't. I watch them to see where to go when stumped. Sometimes, I am inspired by a movie to do something similar, and it can be said that the product was influenced by that original, but who I am didn't change because of it.

Movies are fiction. I make myself based on reality.

I was influenced by Clerks, the Randal and Dante characters really twisted the way I speak and think about sexual related topics.

Quoted from jayrex Another one of my influences.

How has David Lynch influenced you?

And, was Clerks a good influence?

Quoted from Sparklingdiamond... And, was Clerks a good influence?

No, not really, NC-17 sexual related dialog can't be, but for some reason it stuck to me, and it influenced my type of writing, smart and stupid all at the same time, have you ever watched it?