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>The film must be shot where the narrative takes place. This one really stands out by exculding whole genres and not really adding anything interesting to work
by hau 4mo ago
>The film must be shot where the narrative takes place.
This one really stands out by exculding whole genres and not really adding anything interesting to work around.
- aetherspawn 4mo agoIt kind of protects against low budget sci-fi I guess, which could be a net good thing. Under the rules you could attempt to shoot Resident Alien, but not Star Trek.
- irdc 4mo agoI'm thinking you could shoot an awesome sci-fi thriller under these rules. Even one that includes space travel. Just don't have any of the narrative take place in space: have only one character off-planet and have them communicate via radio.
- jmusall 4mo agoI've seen good, low-budget indie sci-fi short films that would presumably meet all of the Dogma 25 rules. So I think it doesn't protect against this category of films and neither would that be a good thing anyways. It just requires creative solutions if you want to e.g. portrait space travel.
- irdc 4mo agoWhich genres would that be? One could also argue that certain genres simply won't ever work as an arthouse movie.
- RobotToaster 4mo ago> Which genres would that be? Space opera, high fantasy and bangsian fantasy are three that come to mind.
- irdc 4mo agoI could see bangsian fantasy work if the afterlife were to be located on earth (which opens up some narrative possibilities, though they're a bit unoriginal). The other two are predicated upon portraying their locations inauthentically, which conflicts with the rules Dogme 25 strives to follow.
- coldtea 4mo agoExluding them is for the better... we got more than enough
- brazzy 4mo agoI don't think it's meant as a constraint to be worked around, but as a guardrail against being inauthentic. And it excludes a lot less than its inspiration Dogme 95, which has as one rule "Genre movies are not acceptable."
- pjc50 4mo ago> "Genre movies are not acceptable." I find that hilarious, like proclaiming that only other people have an ethnicity or an accent. Because of course Dogme is a genre of its own.
- brookst 4mo agoDogme is more of a methodology than genre. Genre usually means settings and tropes, like scifi or horror or superhero. Though I’d argue that rom-com, period pieces, and biopics also are “genre”, at least to the extent a particular movie just paints by numbers within those styles.
- wl 4mo agoPerhaps Dogme 95/Dogma 25 films are in a genre of their own, but they're not "genre movies." People make the same argument with "literary fiction"/"non-genre fiction" vs "genre fiction." The terms have meaning whether or not you want to acknowledge it.
- viccis 4mo agoMakes sense because it's similar to one of the ones from Dogme95 which explicitly excluded genre files.
- dfxm12 4mo agoThat's ok. The goal is not for every film to fit into this criteria.