The deceptively simple details, forms and styles of a movie make it better than itself. Watch this video.

I have seen Terence Malick’s experimental direction of ‘evolving stories of static characters’ in 1998s War Drama Thin Red Line and 2012s Ben Affleck starrer To the Wonder. I have experienced Christopher Nolan’s neo noir depiction of a characters ranging from a superhero trying to save his city (Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Dark Knight Rises) to a farmer turned space scientist on an interstellar journey. And last but not the least I have been left in a desert with no water under the scorching heat of sun by David Fincher in his controversial ending scenes of Fight Club, The Social Network and Gone Girl that never seem to find the closure.

The point here is simple. It is never the story that makes a film nor is it the actor. It is the filming style of the director and his unique take on art and design that earns him the final result. There are many examples of the detailed attention to style and form that completely change the scope of storytelling. For example in Christopher Nolan’s Memento the opening scene is the last scene played backward. Likewise in The Prestige the first scene is the last one. Zodiac, a crime drama directed by David Fincher, has one of the most detailed script that I have ever come across however the but the director, after perfectly (almost) laying out the story, did not gave me the pleasure to watch the killer in chains.

The video below by Jacob T. Swinney compiles the intricate beauty of the little details that we don’t pay attention to by comparing, side by side, the first and final frame of 55 old and new movies.

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