Okay Please give me an example of what yout think makes a movie great. Take for example, Pirates 2, it was a very-Fun movie to watch but it wasn't as much as an Epic as the original. Please give me a list format:
Love Story
Action
Comedy
2006-07-17 10:36:49 · 7 answers · asked by unlucky4utwo 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Epic: Very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary.
Epic – applied to a work that meets at least one of the following criteria: it is a long narrative poem on a great and serious subject, told in an elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race.
The epic typically emphasizes the struggle between the hero’s ethos (the disposition, character, or attitude peculiar to a specific people, culture, or group that distinguishes it from other people of groups; fundamental values or spirit; mores) and his human failings or mortality.
An epic contains the following elements:
catalogs digressions
long speeches
journeys or quests
various trials or tests of the hero
similes and metaphors
divine intervention
Love Story - Brokeback Mountain is considered an epic story of enduring love
Action - The Alamo
2006-07-17 10:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by mizfit 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Length. 3 or more hours.
And then it has to have dramatic impact and usually will have a great hero. Epics were originally extended poems about heroes.
If you say something has "epic proportions" then it is large and grand.
An epic is big and flashy and dramatic and heroic and long.
A wonderful drama or adventure with all the same qualities as an epic but that was only 90 minutes long, wouldn't be considered an epic at all.
Oh, and Pirates of the Caribbean is not an epic. It's an action-adventure.
2006-07-17 17:39:50 · answer #2 · answered by barelyliterate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An epic is a film that lasts for over three hours, or part of an ongoing series: star wars or lord of the rings. in these cases it can be both.
here's a few
Once upon a time in the west
the wild bunch
the good the bad and the ugly
apocalypse now
a bridge too far
the thin red line
dances with wolves
2006-07-17 18:41:35 · answer #3 · answered by AndyB 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Epics need to be at least 2.5 hours in length (or longer) and have a wide scope in both how the story is told and what is covered.
"Lord of the Rings"
"Troy"
"Napoleon"
"Intolerance"
"Lawrence of Arabia"
"Cleopatra"
"The Ten Commandments"
There's a start.
2006-07-17 17:46:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Pirates", an EPIC?
"The Ten Commandments" (the original) was an epic.
2006-07-17 17:40:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A movie is epic if it is heroic and impressive in quality.
2006-07-17 17:40:55 · answer #6 · answered by Eddie G 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The scope of it and the sheer impact that it has own society. Peace.
2006-07-17 17:39:19 · answer #7 · answered by wildrover 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋