You Might Be A Film Student

Over the last few months I've discovered things that are very much characteristics of film students. Here are a few.

• If you have the IMDb app on your phone.
• If porn bothers you because of bad lighting
• If you hate a movie's story, but watch it anyways because the production design is beautiful

Exhibit A

• If you just don't eat because there's no food aloud in the lab
• If you you can't sleep because you can't remember where you've seen the actor playing that minor character before.
• If you randomly spout off information about how to set up a scene
• If you actually watch the DVD extras
• If you hate the Star Wars prequels
• If you willing stand in the snow for hours for snack foods
• If you willingly stand in the rain for hours because it looks cool on film.
• If you bring three umbrellas and none of them are for you.
• If you don't jay walk because you are concerned about the film equipment you are carrying and how much it would cost to replace it if a car hit you.
• If you see giant chickens in the hallway and think little of it
• If Halloween is the most bad ass day of the year.
• If you have forgotten what sleep is

 

To be fair you might just be a college student.

• If you get that one obscure reference in that one movie that no one has ever seen
• If you get that one obscure reference to a film no one's ever seen in a movie everyone's scene.
• If you spend any free time you have watching movies.
• If you think in film clips.
• If someone says, "The new trailer for The Lone Ranger came out," and the entire class crowds around their laptop. 

 

These is the looks we had when we watched the trailer for Twilight

• If you can recognize films you've never seen by name.
• If you can recognize where a movies from based on the cinematography style.
• If dubs on live action moves are unbearable.
• If you changed your original story because the acting wasn't good enough to fit the original script.
• If you have had debates about special effects.
• If you appreciate even the worst movie because you know how much effort it takes to make them.
• If you can recognize the difference between bad acting and bad writing.

 

 

 

This is bad acting.

This is bad writing.

• If you are annoyingly good at figuring out what happens next.
• If you've been bludgeoned, beaten, or harmed in anyway for your annoying ability to predict what happens next.
• If you have punched, thrown, or kicked things, because you predicted the big twist.

Bitch, shut up! I want the movie to tell me Bruce Willis is a ghost!

I'm sure that there are more, but for now these are all the ones I can think of. I'll post more later if I think of them.