BOOO! IT'S THE BLAIR WITCH

“...for the first time – and this is the effect of the film – man has to operate with his whole living person, yet forgoing its aura. For aura is tied to his presence; there can be no replica of it. The aura which, on the stage, emanates from Macbeth, cannot be separated for the spectators from that of the actor. However, the singularity of the shot in the studio is that the camera is substituted for the public. Consequently, the aura that envelops the actor vanishes, and with it the aura of the figure he portrays.”

According to this quote they are saying that when they become actors on the film they lose what makes them real.  So for the blair witch project that actors apparently lost their "aura."  This then makes it impossible for the actor to create a character because the moment he or she acts for an audience they lose their "aura" or skill for being an actor. So by saying this it would give the idea that nothing in the blair witch project could be proven true because the actors are not portraying things that are impossible to portray.  

“Magician and surgeon compare to painter and cameraman. The painter maintains in his work a natural distance from reality, the cameraman penetrates deeply into its web. There is a tremendous difference between the pictures they obtain. That of the painter is a total one, that of the cameraman consists of multiple fragments which are assembled under a new law. Thus, for contemporary man the representation of reality by the film is incomparably more significant than that of the painter, since it offers, precisely because of the thoroughgoing permeation of reality with mechanical equipment, an aspect of reality which is free of all equipment. And that is what one is entitled to ask from a work of art.”

This quote is explaining how the Blair Witch Project will give a more accurate portrayal of what is real 

because the camera is less likely to manipulate what is going on.  Where as with a picture the artist  has full control over what is being painted.  Whether this is true or not is up to your discretion.  I believe that both can be easily manipulate with little to no effort.  This deals with the blair witch project because they shot this film on a low budget and used that to help manipulate what was going on in the film while still trying to convince their audience of the documentary gone wrong.  

The Difference

Tokyo Story  is by far the film that I have had the hardest time watching.  Although we were warned about it, I did not expect it to be as slow and as calm as it was.  My expectations were completely off my only experience with asian cinema has been Fallen Angels which was rather intense throughout the film.  

Looking back I should have not generalized the films and also considered the amount of time between making these films.  However, they juxtapose each other perfectly.  One being very zen like and one being exhausting to the eyes.  

A classic hollywood film and Tokyo Story are very hard to compare to each other.  Tokyo Story creates a sense of realism through its zen practical nature.  It takes a story about something that is not out of the ordinary- parents going to visit their children and then the mother getting very ill and dying- and comments on  how parents and their children's relationship evolve and are changed over time.  It comments on how parents should be proud of their children even if they don't do what they expect.  It takes the relationships and explains how families need to move on.  It also expresses a comment on how even though people may not share your blood ties they can still be considered apart of your family.  

Hollywood cinemas are  very different in the way they create a sense of realism. They create it by showing what the ideal world is and telling the viewer what it takes to have it.  They create "realism" almost by faking it.  A great thing to talk about is that in Tokyo Story the mother dies off screen, I feel like in any classic Hollywood cinema the mother would never die off screen because those are things that are considered to be okay in American/Hollywood cinemas.