{"id":177313,"date":"2022-11-11T05:54:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T11:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=177313"},"modified":"2022-11-11T05:54:31","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T11:54:31","slug":"darren-aronofsky-on-the-whale-and-the-3-things-you-need-to-create-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/darren-aronofsky-on-the-whale-and-the-3-things-you-need-to-create-cinema\/","title":{"rendered":"Darren Aronofsky on ‘The Whale’ and the 3 Things You Need to Create Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tips from the master himself on how to use performance, light, and camera to create true cinema.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to a packed theater at the Austin Film Festival<\/a> after a recent screening of his latest film, The Whale, Darren Aronofsky \u2014 the acclaimed director known for Requiem for a Dream (2000), Black Swan (2010), and mother!<\/em><\/a> (2017) \u2014 spoke quite in depth about his filmmaking process and how he creates true cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharing the stage with screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter<\/a>, who also wrote the play from which The Whale was adapted, Aronofsky packed plenty of great insights into his discussion with the festival’s moderator as well as directly with fans during a lively Q&A session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since graduating from Harvard University and then the American Film Institute, Aronofsky has been known for his challenging and surreal films, which delve deep into the sometimes disturbing elements of psychological fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With The Whale, <\/em>in particular, Aronofsky pulls no punches as he crafts one of his career’s most unnerving \u2014 yet oddly endearing \u2014 films. And while based on a stage play, the film is also perhaps Aronofsky’s most cinematic, which he credits to his focus on the “three things” you need to create cinema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s explore these three elements and examine how they’re used in The Whale, as well as try to provide insights into how you can channel these three distinctions into projects of your own.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Performance<\/span><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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