Loving Vincent Thesis

When stepping out of a movie theater, you are usually never think about whether this movie will be talked about for generations to come. This is not the case with the fully oil painted feature length film, Loving Vincent (2017). Regardless of if the viewer of the film found the plot line enjoyable or not, it is impossible to say that they were not impressed by the clear amount of time and effort put into this film. With each frame, you can see where the artists painted over the canvas create the illusion of someone walking or moving their hand. The film hired over eighty painters and trained them to paint in the style of Vincent Van Gogh as well as train them a bit in the art of animation. But thankfully, the artists had more than just Vincent’s paintings to go off of. Before scenes were painted, actors who resembled his paintings were hired to act out the scenes and were then painted over. The amount of dedication shown in this film is astonishing and makes it not only beautiful to watch, but something that makes this film unique and one for the history books. In fact, the dedication to this film has earned it an Oscar nomination in the upcoming 2018 Oscars. Loving Vincent is competing in the category for Animated Feature along with the films The Boss Baby, The Breadwinner, Coco, and Ferdinand.

The film follows one of Vincent’s painting, Portrait of Armand Roulin, try to deliver a letter to Vincent’s cousin while Armand (Douglas Booth) simultaneously tries to figure out if Vincent really killed himself or if he was murdered. Throughout the film you witness Armand interact and come across other well-known paintings by Van Gogh. Now—that plot line may sound interesting but, it gets old very quick because there are not many twists and turns to keep the audience