Inspiration & the Movies

What movies have inspired you?  What have you done with that inspiration?  Inspiration can be a mighty power to wield and cinema has a huge reach.

For me I get the itch to learn about the subject in the film.  Take 2016’s incredible Birth of A Nation.  The film was about Nat Turner’s slave rebellion.  Remember it’s the one that had a massive controversy about how widely inaccurate it was.  People weren’t seeing the movie because of that fact and missed out on an excellent movie.  What it did for me was encourage me to read up on what actually happened.  I read some interesting material on the subject.  

Most recently I saw Viceroy’s House.  The film portrays the transition of British India to independence.  It’s a piece of history I know nothing about and am eager to read up on.

This doesn’t have to be limited to films that are ‘based on a true story’.  Take M. Night Shyamalan’s Split.  The horror flick follows three women kidnapped by a man with multiple personality disorder. I wanted to know more about multiple personality disorder.  I read a great biography on Billie Milligan as well as some great information about the disorder.

So again I ask what have movies done to inspire you and how have you acted on that?