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Post by politicidal on Jan 24, 2020 18:43:39 GMT
I presume his commanding officer is Martin Scorsese.
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"As far as I can see, the commercial product that is owned by the conglomerates, the projects everybody knows about and has in their DNA, whether it be the Marvel Comics, the Star Wars, Godzilla, and James Bond, those films never had a better year than last year. It would have been the year that their world domination would have been complete. But it kind of wasn't. Because of what you said, a lot of original movie content came out and demanded to be seen, and demanded to be seen at the theaters. That ended up becoming a really, really strong year. I'm really proud to be nominated with the other films that just got nominated. I think when you sum up the year, it's cinema that doesn't fall into that blockbuster IP proof status, made its last stand this year."
"If it hadn't done it this year, it might have been the last stand for movies like that. This is a really groovy year. To combat something like Avengers: Endgame, which for the month before it came out and the month after, you couldn't talk about anything else. They tried to do that with this last Star Wars and I don't think it quite worked, but you couldn't get on United Airlines without running into all the tie-ins, and even the safety commercial had a Star Wars scene."
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Post by Prime etc. on Jan 24, 2020 19:49:04 GMT
Yeah but his Charles Manson movie IS also a brand. There have been many Manson-themed movies. It wasn't that original. Having Bruce Lee etc in it is also about branding/franchise mentality.
There is no war. Neither Tarantino nor Scorsese want to admit Hollywood is sticking creative expression in a vice and squeezing it more and more each year.
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Post by Zos on Feb 4, 2020 11:51:37 GMT
I presume his commanding officer is Martin Scorsese.
TEXT:
"As far as I can see, the commercial product that is owned by the conglomerates, the projects everybody knows about and has in their DNA, whether it be the Marvel Comics, the Star Wars, Godzilla, and James Bond, those films never had a better year than last year. It would have been the year that their world domination would have been complete. But it kind of wasn't. Because of what you said, a lot of original movie content came out and demanded to be seen, and demanded to be seen at the theaters. That ended up becoming a really, really strong year. I'm really proud to be nominated with the other films that just got nominated. I think when you sum up the year, it's cinema that doesn't fall into that blockbuster IP proof status, made its last stand this year."
"If it hadn't done it this year, it might have been the last stand for movies like that. This is a really groovy year. To combat something like Avengers: Endgame, which for the month before it came out and the month after, you couldn't talk about anything else. They tried to do that with this last Star Wars and I don't think it quite worked, but you couldn't get on United Airlines without running into all the tie-ins, and even the safety commercial had a Star Wars scene."
Well, I hope he's not referring to Irishman here, because Scorsese's "Netflix" film was finding a loop hole in a few rules to get Oscar noms, but wasn't interested in being screened in theaters, only as a token gesture because it had too. How much is Scorsese endorsing original cinema experiences here. Look well if you missed his limited theatrical release. Cinemas won't book a film of the length of The Irishman, too long to get the number of viewings needed for their profit margins, he would have been forced to do a part 1 and 2. Hollywood has always been risk adverse though and have a 3 tier budgeting scale (or at least used to), they will only do big budget now if it is pretty much nailed on to be a hit which means superhero or space soap opera films which are so beloved by the core 18-25 cinema going audience. If cinemas were full of 50-70 year olds then "The Irishman" would be on everywhere, not rocket science or anti-Scorcese movement just capitalism at work. Why young adults have not grown beyond the tedious men in tights movies is perhaps a more important question and one than speaks to the need for fantasy rather than realism in their lives and why they haven't matured in the way that previous generations did. Obviously there are exceptions as to any rule but the change in cinema goers and what they want to see fuels the studios agendas.
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