Two DJ Movies to Learn From

[SamMalone]

I just finished reading The Book: On The Taboo on Knowing Who You Are and just feel like putting some thoughts down while I'm thinking.

There are a lot of recomended movies out there as far as immatating a main character is concerned, but the themes of the two movies Collateral and Fight Club fit in extremely well with the philosophy here.

Collateral has Vincent (cruise) and Max (fox), where Vincent is cool, calm, colleceted and Max is a boring AFC. Max plans everything in his boring, ordinary life while Vincent is always improvising and adapting. Vincent, though, is completely anti-social and lacks compassion and care for life. Max, at the final shootout with Vincent, empties a round of bullets from his gun with his eyes close, completely letting go from control, and this saved his life. Max is the one that found that balance between the two extremes.

Fight Club has Tyler (Pitt) and Nararator (Norton). Tyler has the DJ mindset here, but he takes it to an extreme just like Vincent. Norton is the same as max in a sense that they're just regular, boring guys that end up learning a lot from the psycho they are opposing. Norton actually gets rid of Tyler by actually incorporating many elements of his personality into his own, but not too many; a perfect balance.

These two movies are just movies, but they do follow a philosophy here. The two contrasting characters in each respecitive movie are wrong; an extreme in one direction of the other isn't the way to live; instead find a perfect balance.

 

[manbearpig]

Batman Begins has the "public" Bruce Wayne, although hes only really featured in one scene. Anyway, the character is indeed a DJ, even though you only get to see him in DJ mode for that one scene.

 

[Friendly Otter]

Want to see a DJ? Watch Fear Factor! Joe Rogan seems to me the perfect DJ; listen to his smalltalk with the contestants, always in control, sometimes teasing them a little above their fears, always in a relaxed manner, even when he is shouting to someone far away.

This guy has charisma.

I took a look at his profile at imdb, and look at this:

--He has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

--He was the Massachusetts Full Contact Tae Kwon Do champion four consecutive times.

--At the age of 19, he won the US Open Tae Kwon Do Championship and, as the lightweight champ, went on to beat both the middle and heavy weight title holders to take home the Grand Championship.


As anyone who has done martial arts know, getting a black belt takes a certain quality and discipline. Not only did he do that, he became a bloody Full Contact champion four times!

Further proof of the guy's inner strength, projecting as outer success and charisma.

I have no doubt Joe Rogan is a great DJ. His style is worth studying.

 

[Marlimus]

the idea of DJ movies has been beaten to death. search.