Original film making is dead

maldini

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Producers seem more concerned about making the 19th installment of X-Men than green light a film with an original premise. Why is that?

Every film I see nowadays is either an adaptation of a book (or comic book), a re-boot, a prequel, a sequel or anything that requires little to no originality from the director.

What ever happened to directors going out on a limb and making something pure like La Dolce Vita or Bicycle Thieves?

Christopher Nolan, through his film Inception, has shown that you can make an original film and make the big bucks. So, what's the problem?
 
Because the big studios know certain formulas will give them a good return on their investment while something more risqué might or might not flop and aren't prepared to take the risk. It's all about the dough.
 
Not sure the timing is right for this thread. There's lots of really good, original, low-budget indie movies being made now, thanks to the recent advances in digital photography and editing/sfx software. Monsters is a good example.

The big studios are churning out a lot of cack though. Speaks volumes that Inception is being hailed as a masterpiece.
 
And the 'Golden Age of Television" has taken over.

Many of the people (and by people I mean creative producers, writers, actors, directors) who would have worked towards the creation of "so called" independent cinema have now found homes in the world of high end cable serial TV.

Just watch the quality in series from old school epics like:

The Sopranos
The Wire
Rome
Six Feet Under

to newer efforts like

Boardwalk Empire
Justified
Californication
True Blood



not to mention smaller comedy hits like

Flight of the Concords
Less than Kind
Weeds (although it has gone down hill in the past few seasons)
 
maldini said:
Producers seem more concerned about making the 19th installment of X-Men than green light a film with an original premise. Why is that?

Every film I see nowadays is either an adaptation of a book (or comic book), a re-boot, a prequel, a sequel or anything that requires little to no originality from the director.

What ever happened to directors going out on a limb and making something pure like La Dolce Vita or Bicycle Thieves?

Christopher Nolan, through his film Inception, has shown that you can make an original film and make the big bucks. So, what's the problem?
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What a weird comparison....you seem to be looking at Hollywood for films like La Dolce Vita and Bicycle Thieves?

There is plenty of great films still being made every year, just stop being a sheep to Hollywood and you'll find them.
 
This is the era of " dark and broody "

Everything must be " dark and broody " .

Expect the next installment of Winnie the Pooh's Adventures to be concentrated on why Eeyore is such a glum bastard and his backstory of how thugs violated him and his tail.
 
204Red said:
And the 'Golden Age of Television" has taken over.

Many of the people (and by people I mean creative producers, writers, actors, directors) who would have worked towards the creation of "so called" independent cinema have now found homes in the world of high end cable serial TV.

Just watch the quality in series from old school epics like:

The Sopranos
The Wire
Rome
Six Feet Under

to newer efforts like

Boardwalk Empire
Justified
Californication
True Blood



not to mention smaller comedy hits like

Flight of the Concords
Less than Kind
Weeds (although it has gone down hill in the past few seasons)
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It's interesting to see that more than a few movie actors are turning to television at the moment.
 
Inception, original?
Leonardo Di Caprio playing a widowed husband to a mentally ill wife with memory issues; wasn't that the same character he did less than a year earlier in Shutter Island?
 
It's not really a new state of affairs... Most films made during my life time have been cheap, unoriginal pieces of poop.

'tis the way of the mainstream... They're catering to the non-discerning, i.e. most folks.
 
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