Qualities Of Better Films #28 of 32: DIFFERENTATION AMONG CHARACTERS AND ENVIRONMENTS

June 22, 2009

Does everyone talk in the same voice with the same cadence and vernacular? They don’t in my world and they shouldn’t in any filmic world either. Does the filmmaker understand or look to exploit this difference, and if not, then, why not? Does the uniqueness of each character, set, and location say anything about the filmmakers’ outlook on the world in general? If a filmmaker hasn’t thought though all of these things, have they truly done their job? I think you know the answer to this one…

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Ted Hope

Ted Hope is an American independent film producer based in New York City. He is best known for co-founding the production/sales company Good Machine, where he produced the first films of such notable filmmakers as Ang Lee, Nicole Holofcener, Todd Field, Michel Gondry, Moisés Kaufman, and Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, among others. Hope later co-founded This is That with several associates from Good Machine. He later worked at the San Francisco Film Society and Amazon Studios.