Robert Altman's films have been my favorite movies we've watched so far in art of film by far. All his films are all very different, unlike Surokawa where all his movies were basically the same thing. His movies vary from The Company ; a ballet movie to Nashville; a (hippie) musical movies to The Player; a murder/detective movie and then to The Long Goodbye. I really like how he's comfortable in getting creative with his movies and not sticking with one kind of movie but expanding his horizons to differentiate his movies. Although he is very creative in making different films, he has very many cinematic styles that are similar. His use of very long opening scenes, few cuts, and abrupt endings occur in practically all his films. In some of his films he lacks a protagonist which differentiate Altman than most other directors. My favorite movie we watched from Altman was The Player it mocked hollywood a lot. I like how it had the twist where the movie was about a movie. Throughout the whole film it was mocking a movie that was suppose to have a sad ending, but in the end it ends up being a happy/ cheesy ending- like most hollywood movies. Because that was a main problem for the director of Habeous Corpus I thought Altman was going to have his ending be a sad ending, but it ended up being unrealistically happy which was kind of a twist in itself- for me at least. Altman was a great director and his movies will forever be great great films.
