Jonathan02us wrote:But i mean, in general, how often do u see a guy crying at a theater.
I would leave before I'd cry in a theater, or any public place. Aside from acting, I don't know any girls who just start crying over a movie in public, or even with their friends. It isn't that crying makes you a wimp, it's that crying is private - unless you're sharing your grief with someone, you don't just walk into a crowded room and cry in front of a bunch of strangers. Male or female - I know no one who is comfortable crying in front of people who don't share the pain.
I think that's one reason amvs are more powerful when they're done by people who are putting their pain into film - because people usually try to keep those emotions private. A lot of the time the reason those films/books are so powerful is *because* the author says "I made this to express my joy/pain/agony over this having happened to me" - and then the viewer/reader has that mindset going into it. One of the reasons biographical stories are so touching is that you know they're based on a real instance. They can relate to it in a way you can't relate to someone who cries all the time for the world to see - as if it's meaningless.
At the same time, you have to watch out for falling into the cliche (think female romance novels all having the same plot) - the old "my girlfriend broke up with me so I made a vid" or "I made this for my girlfriend" line. Without those notes, the vids are just more romance/angsty drama vids, but after a while I see those descriptions and think "not again...what's with these guys..." Emotion is powerful until it becomes ordinary - and there are enough breakup/love pledge vids out there for it to loose its strength over time.
That's another reason I don't think the male-majority of romance vids will last. After a while they'll lose their strength, become commonplace, and fall in with all the other romance vids you see. Hopefully there'll come a time when a guy can make a romance vid without the viewer thinking "Oh, he must have gotten a new girlfriend, or broken up with one" and start thinking "Oh, nice to see a guy appreciate the emotional side of anime."
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