If you are not familiar of what the
term “High Concept” means; essentially it refers to being able to condense the
premise of a film, book or whatever to a simple concept. The most cited
examples of this tend to be “what if we cloned dinosaurs” or “Arnold
Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins”. Out of all of this year’s Oscar
contenders, the High Concept conceit of “a man falls in love with his computer operating
system” is perhaps the most eye catching. Her, directed by Spike Jonze, is
about that very thing. I must admit that the high concept idea did worry me as
I thought it could degrade into a pretentious, avant garde, post modernist, up
it's own arse analysis of the meaning of love in a technological age or go the
other way and be about an operating system being driven violently insane by
jealousy. So what did Spike Jonze do with this high concept?
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Showing posts with label Spike Jonze. Show all posts
Monday, 24 February 2014
Oscar Review – Her
If you are not familiar of what the
term “High Concept” means; essentially it refers to being able to condense the
premise of a film, book or whatever to a simple concept. The most cited
examples of this tend to be “what if we cloned dinosaurs” or “Arnold
Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins”. Out of all of this year’s Oscar
contenders, the High Concept conceit of “a man falls in love with his computer operating
system” is perhaps the most eye catching. Her, directed by Spike Jonze, is
about that very thing. I must admit that the high concept idea did worry me as
I thought it could degrade into a pretentious, avant garde, post modernist, up
it's own arse analysis of the meaning of love in a technological age or go the
other way and be about an operating system being driven violently insane by
jealousy. So what did Spike Jonze do with this high concept?
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