Posted on 12/28/2004 3:52:03 PM PST by pissant
Do you remember that in Shadows the cameraman had to hide a camera in his trenchcoat to shoot the long pans in Penn Station because they didn't have permits?
Slacker borrowed heavily from Cul de Sac, a pretty good New Wave film. Forget the director. Also, Linklater had to be inventive in financing and equipment.
My favorite film financing story is Richard Rodriguez submitting to medical experiments to pay for El Mariachi.
you mean David Crosby, R. Kelly and Neil Young, I assume.
David Crosby, Emmett Kelly and Neil Young??? Huh?
Conservatism has not been and isn't going to be a tsunami. It is the steady relentless drop of rain upon a rock. Causing fissures that slowly, eventually will weaken the rock to gravel and grist.
Hollywood will continue to grind out its Corporate Driven, PC laden, written by commission, incredibly lame drek. While independents slip in three or four films that are suitable for the whole family and will make money.
Until there are a few films that reach the status of "The Passion" or "The Incredibles" each year for a decade. Hollywood will take no notice.
Since their films are gauged only by their "Opening Weekend". Should the film do well, you can bet that there will be a sequel.
It's all about money. And it is sickeningly self-perpetuating.
Jack.
'Cul De Sac' is a British film directed by Roman Polanski so good luck finding fans here! :)
As to the point of the article, I don't think that Hollywood will appreciably change until the people change, either inside or by different people. Currently, the Hollywood elite are more committed to drugs, homosexuality and perversion than to anything else, including making money.
Steven Spielberg and Jeff Katzenberg vowed to get Mel Gibson blackballed in Hollywood for making "The Passion of the Christ." They only backed off when their quotes were made public, generating backlash.
Speilberg was asked about the Gibson film when it came out and declined to comment. Where do you get this information? Films about homosexuality and perversion represent a rather small percentage of Hollywood product.
Ford went to the Clinton White House, and Clinton went to the Ford ranch.
There were several stories about it. Spielberg wasn't talking to the press when he said this. It was some party talk that got out. Both he and Katzenberg backtracked very quickly. They were both swearing that they'd never work with him and that they'd use their pull to keep their studios away from him.
Spielberg had once offered Gibson the part of Oscar Schindler. There are 'Hollywood stories' about lots of things. I wouldn't put too much stock in it.
"distinct *lack of quality* to persist in the Christian music industry"
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Jars of Clay.. Third day.. 'nuff said.
There is indeed a revolution underway in movie making. Independents are now getting their hands on some wonderful technology and independent film making is the growth market. Independents can make movies on micro budgets.
Hollywood is not making mid-budget movies. They are rolling the dice on blockbuster attempts using $100+ million dollar budgets. They are also losing a hell of a lot of money doing it.
It's all about "deals" in Hollywood. Movie stars and directors are called "attachments" now. Note the language of lawyers. They think if they blow enough cash, filling the screen with big names, every fool in American will drop $9 to see it, without regard to the quality of the story.
It is gratifying to see these ruthless people losing hundreds of millions of dollars paying self-absorbed, loony actors $15 million apiece to make movies which lose money by the trainload.
Hollywood is a land of dead people walking around. It's a world of dinosaurs, not innovators. The old model is broken and they don't know what to do.
I don't really care about their politics, as long as they don't try to shove it down my throat like the Sarandons, Baldwins, Streisands, Penn's, Depp's of the world and tell me I'm stupid for not agreeing with them
Good job. Keep me posted on how you are doing, I am particularly interested in this as a writer. I believe that the movie business is definitely in the crosshairs for a BIG change in this direction. There is a huge market out there for good, old fashioned movies with good acting and real plots. National Review recently featured an article on this very topic.
"God bless our troupes" LOL HAHAHAHAHAHA
I am guessing you meant this as a play on words since "troupe" is more often used to refer to a group of actors, and we are talking about Hellywierd.
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