Chapter 24
Ten Films That Include
NLP Processes
In This Chapter
▶ Finding the NLP processes hidden in films
▶ Exploring your NLP skills through the medium of movies
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n this chapter, we select ten films for you to watch. We found these films
uplifting and often thought-provoking, but most of all we spotted aspects
of NLP in each of them. In the following sections, we identify some NLP
features in each film to illustrate the sorts of things you can look out for as
you hone your NLP skills, even when relaxing at the cinema.Avatar
Before talking about the NLP features in the film, we want to suggest that
James Cameron is a very unreasonable man, because as George Bernard
Shaw said: ‘Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable
people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore,
depends on unreasonable people.’Avatar shows James Cameron’s dedication and focus in bringing this film to
life. It took more than ten years of keeping hold of the vision in his head. Even
more amazing is that he and his team developed a virtual camera that took
the process of performance capture to a new level – creating and adapting
the film world to his needs and progressing the science of film-making not
just for themselves but for future film makers. If you have a visual preference
(as we describe in Chapter 6), this film is a real treat, especially if you watch
it in 3D. Here are the two main themes that we want to point out: