What qualities make a good movie?

  

     There are certain attributes to me, which must be address, in any movie to be considered a good movie. There needs to be a well-developed storyline, which presents the characters and/or objects in a movie, well enough for which the audience doesn’t lose interest or get confused. If a characters or an object is not presented, with a certain amount of background information, or enough plot as to why they may be the hero or villain, than that is a bad movie. Next, a movie needs to have great filming locations, such as sticking to the season, time era, and place the story is being taken part in.  Furthermore, the cinema photography needs to be done very well. If a movie can help you escape, from the reality you live in, to a whole new place in the gene you are watching, for the hour and half to three hours, then its consider a good movie.    

    One example I consider a good movie is, “Gone with the Wind” by Victor Fleming. No matter how many times I see the movie, the magnificence of the story being told through the film gets me every time, as I cry, laugh, and feel bad for Rhett. The movie has great actors that do a fantastic job, at delivering the many different sub stories being told throughout the movie. The audience was able to watch Scarlett grow from a child into a woman by the end of the movie. We see her interact with people in her life that had an influence on her having to grow up. The actors allowed us to be able to watch how the South deals with the war and the loss of family members. I love the locations and the houses as well. The locations added to the feel of the story, by showing how the South lived before the war and after the war has pass through destroying all they had.

      Another example of what I consider a good movie is one that can express a message without presenting it in a horrible way. The movie, “It’s a wonderful life” is a great example of a movie that expresses, love, family, friends, and not losing yourself by allowing someone to degrade you. The storyline is told in such a way, that there is humor, romance, death, poverty and caring for your fellow man. Its a feel good movie, that you want to share with all those around you. It may be based during christmas time, but its a movie you can watch all year around.