Personal velocity, Nine lives, short films to feature films

[abalex]

I just want to know what you guys think about this matter.

I've seen these movies many times and personally I like the style. A sequence of vignettes/short stories helping make an 80 min. feature. Another good example is THE DEAD GIRL.

I mean do you really appreciate movies done this way or do you prefer the normal way where a single story is told during the entire movie.

I've heard things like; directors who make features using short stories are basically lazy artists. I don't think I agreed with this. I'm working on a feature script that tells a series of short stories making it a whole.

what's your thought?

 

[ugafan]

if it's a good movie, it's a good movie. robert altman's "short cuts" comes to mind.

 

[mjjason]

They are plenty of movies that are basically several shorts strung together. Most of the mid 90's indie scene consisted of these movies; 'Twenty Dollars', Pulp Fiction, '4 Rooms' and a bunch of others I can't think of right now.