Saqib Siddik

Gran Torino is another movie that has been on my list for a long time. The film is about a crusty Korean War veteran who grudgingly befriends his Asian refugee neighbors and later protects them from a local street gang. It’s a character-driven movie that asks the audience to care about the characters and their relationships.

Getting the audience to care about on-screen characters is one of the biggest challenges of filmmaking, and it’s an area that young filmmakers often struggle with. By comparison, getting your low budget film to “look” like a Hollywood movie is relatively easy.

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