In Praise of Chairs 

Lazy Game Reviews lol

Lazy Game Reviews Oh, hey Clint!

I remember watching your mine craft video the first time you uploaded. good days

+Lazy Game Reviews i was thinking about you when I watched this haha

Lazy Game Reviews duddde i just discovered both this and your channel and have been binging em both

absolutely agree

ikr

chairs and stools*

Mateus Murozaki I'm just going to pretend that Tony hires you for the writing staff, now. ;3

Mateus Murozaki Damn, that would have been perfect!

Next time, we'll talk about tables.

Happ MacDonald I like to pretend that sometimes too.

***** Thanks!

JoeBlo2 One of the oldest rules in show biz: keep them wanting more.

JoeBlo2 CGP Grey?

JoeBlo2 This is and YMS. Only channels that put A LOT of effort into videos, hence why the breaks between vids

I did but we're a year in now

guys the channel is no longer working. sorry to say it but it´s the truth.

yes but i dont get the idea behind it

Get out.

+Tomas Canevaro i thought i asked you to stop dad...

ugh, you're such a Lazy Boy...

I couldn't chair less

Stop chairing your stupid jokes with us.

birdman1741 Sit in a chair and bump the song and try not to stand up. Can't be done.

Every Frame a Painting YESSSS thank you. Hiiipower just has such an upbeat tone and lyrics its hard to sit down. Dude keep on doing what you do. I love your channel so feeaking much. You really got me into studying different types of film.

birdman1741 Cheers man. In my earlier edits of this video, I actually used the instrumental of Hol' Up but decided that HiiiPower was a better fit. Everybody put three fingers in the aaaaaair.

Every Frame a Painting The sky is falling, the wind is calling, stand for something or die in the morning. Section 80, Hiipower

Every Frame a Painting Tony is a kendrick Lamar HOLY FRICK

What shitty college are you going to?

ranzes infante I used to want these to come out on a regular schedule, but I've learned that the editing process is freakishly unpredictable. So I'm not sure anymore. I think the #1 priority for me is to make them good. It's really heartening to hear that people not only watch them once, but keep rewatching them. So at the very least, I want these videos to be good enough to sit through more than once.

***** Yes, Tony. Keep doing this amazing work and do not worry about a schedule.

Every Frame a Painting I've watched several of them multiple times and I've directed people to check out your channel. Great stuff. Thanks!

Every Frame a Painting Yeah your videos are great. I have watched every video multiple times.

CiciColino Same here. and the Edgar Wright essay too.

_Memories of Murder_ (see the clip at about 0:50) is a fantastic (Korean) film.

I really liked his _Mother_ and really, really didn't like _Snowpiercer._ I haven't seen _The Host_ yet, nor _Memories of Murder._

+Allen Knutson Did you appreciate Snowpiercer a bit more after his analysis.

? I'm not sure I've seen that analysis. But I imagine that the things he'll point out won't relate to the stuff I didn't like.

He kinda did with the F for Fake video.

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BeardedMovieGuy *you're

Congradulations, you get the perfect speller award! Way to go!

BeardedMovieGuy *Congratulations,

+BeardedMovieGuy Shameful

Jon A Clearly, this character needs to sit on his head.

Every Frame a Painting Cronenberg would be proud of that mental image oO

Pablo Cueto Liñan I'm pretty sure he deliberately didn't use it because I'm pretty sure he already used it in the Fincher video. A good writer doesn't reuse words if he can help it.

Tiago Miranda twitter.com/tonyszhou/status/613387846947221504

Ah, my bad, don't have a twitter account! Thanks man! Love your work!

luckily it's back

+Kram1032 สค

Click the settings icon and change the subtitle track. There is one labeled "English (United States) - Movie Titles"

+Toxic Crayon Go into the options menu, select "subtitles", and choose "English - Movie titles".

I meant the same Henry.. :)

and what happen to the copyright?

it's under fair use

It's under fair use but he doesn't monetize his videos, he lets people donate to his patreon instead.

It's kinda awesome actually.

+Sid Brunski Kinda makes me feel uncomfortable, like sitting on a chair an having it breath out asthmatically

I don't see anything wrong with it, other than the fact that it is not completely straight. Maybe if it was to the left a bit?

Satirisch In a film thats all about the immobility of an injured man the chair is an extremely significant piece of the mise en scene. Very good point.

BollocksUtwat I couldn't have said it any better. ;)

Greta Taurus Three weeks for this one (and it's short). Longest period was Kurosawa, which took nearly 8 weeks.

Every Frame a Painting Kurosawa would be proud

Every Frame a Painting Thank you for taking your time, love your teachings.

Every Frame a Painting Well Kurosawa's most certainly a subject who deserves extra time, to be sure.

IGameChangerI Except that there aren't many props that are in almost every single movie. Therefore chairs serve as excellent examples to illustrate the broader point, which I believe he gestured at himself in the essay.

BollocksUtwat Cars, doors, clocks, phones, road signs, fences, etc. My favorite is mirrors. I wasn't saying that chairs were a bad example, but they're just that: an example. They're not the only thing that this can be applied to.

IGameChangerI Except that many of those objects you described are very on the nose, obvious and hard to ignore. However, you (as in people) address a chair very oddly, rather than facing it you usually sit in it, putting your back to it. Mirrors come close but they're trickier to work with and usually much less inconspicuous. A great example of one though is the scene in Drive that Tony mentions in his vid about that film. I'd say chairs *are* the best example because they're the ones that have the most general utility regardless of the film while being inconspicuous. They're not just part of the background, they're seamlessly part of the environment (they belong in most rooms and we see lots of rooms in movies) and interacted with constantly. They're easily shoe horned into a moment so you can use them to say something whereas I dunno how you get a clock or a fence to illustrate Fredo's weakness and impotence. I still think the chair is the best example to illustrate the broader point.

offtopic, a sidenote; mirrors can be used to serve an idea. consider for example Kubricks shining. it has a thing with mirrors. have a look.

***** I don't think so. They probably only did it for practicality purposes, ie. shooting and having character interactions around a small chair is easier than a monstrous one that only allows one actor to be in the frame.

The one they already created already needs four really strong people to lift it Plus it looks pretty badass to me. I love the design if it. I also think it'd look very cheesy and OTT if they did the one described exactly in the books. Impractical, cheesy and wouldn't have people taking it seriously

Teebz 1000 I think the right designer could pull it off.

Teebz 1000 Exactly. Thats the point. The Iron Throne does not matter. The White Walkers is what matters. Its like Jeor Mormont says When Winter comes and the dead rise do you think anyone will care about who sits on the Iron Throne

Kevin Nguyen No, many great directors did, he just pointed it out to you. ;)

Cavers They remind me a lot of how Terrence Malick shoots his movies.

Cavers nolan sucks

It's actually have one of Nolan's most overused and weaker gimmicks.

CaversITT: being abnormally harsh towards Nolan because he is popular

NDfor SPDadsdas *because he isn't nearly as good as his fanboys think

Daniel Rosa The channel is called "Every FRAME a Painting." I don't think his intention was ever to make a writing oriented channel with a name like that. It's about being able to encapsulate the basis of what a film is about through either a single image or several. He shows how a character or a story can develop through a series of images, be they different or similar. Film is images, literally. It's about taking full advantage of the visual scope of films and he does it better then pretty much anybody else; clear, concise and easy to get, right off the bat. Yes, there are plenty of videos about directing, editing and cinematography but he makes them so that people listen closer than most others. Not to mention you're implying that Tony is somehow worse by not being a writer. Fincher doesn't write. Tim Burton doesn't write. Steven Soderbergh. Sam Mendes. Correct me if I'm wrong but you come off as being disgustingly condescending with that little "Aw..." you put near the end of the comment. He's not evading anything; it's that he doesn't WANT to. For him, the image is just about everything in cinema, and that if you feel that cinema as a whole is primarily about dialogue, it may as well just be theatre, a different art form entirely, at least, in terms of execution. He has stated that what he does, as a video essayist is mostly about the picture, hence the term "motion picture," and that he does not focus on writing. So don't assume he avoids it because he doesn't have the balls; if you were stuck in a room to perform a surgical operation and you said you didn't know how and they told you "I'll play the I dare you game," do you think you'd succeed?

Daniel Rosa Unfortunately you're too ignorant to check Tony's F for Fake video essay. Oh well.

iNinja Walker I... am a fan since his first video. Why the aggressiveness?

Robert Lugo Yes, I agree with you. I know what the channel is about, and I know where it can go that it hasn't gone yet. If you pay attention, I carefully chose my words, in a playful way, but meaning it, because I want the best for it. I'm sure Tony will get it and appretiate it :)

Why don't you get it, folks? And why all the mean assumptions?