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Art <> Money
Feb. 26th, 2002 10:00 pmEvery so often someone proposes that if mass media producing company industry X really wanted to make money, they'd stop continuously producing mindless generic crap, hire some decent writers and concentrate on producing works aimed at adults, who would then gratefully flock around and throw money, causing a renessaince and saving the economy simultaneously.
For instance here, Thomas C Greene (I don't know why, but people with middle initials always start off on the wrong foot with me) rails against modern movies, saying:
Well of course; but that's because they're ridiculously expensive cartoons that no one over the age of fifteen really wants to watch. But the obvious solution isn't hijacking people's computers and turning them into set-top boxes, but rather making cheaper movies that adults actually care to attend. And the great thing here is that the two go hand-in-hand. It's not an either/or proposition. Movies that involve such grown-up elements as good writing and dialogue and an imaginative story don't require spending of hundreds of millions on infantile whiz-bang special effects.
A quick glance, however, at the top grossing films of all time, would tend to belie that.
In fact, I'd be interested to know what the highest rated film on the list that you considered to be well written, adult, and not special-effects laden was.
I love mature, well written films (last film I saw was Gosford Park), but generally speaking they don't seem to be the way to make handfuls of cash.
For instance here, Thomas C Greene (I don't know why, but people with middle initials always start off on the wrong foot with me) rails against modern movies, saying:
Well of course; but that's because they're ridiculously expensive cartoons that no one over the age of fifteen really wants to watch. But the obvious solution isn't hijacking people's computers and turning them into set-top boxes, but rather making cheaper movies that adults actually care to attend. And the great thing here is that the two go hand-in-hand. It's not an either/or proposition. Movies that involve such grown-up elements as good writing and dialogue and an imaginative story don't require spending of hundreds of millions on infantile whiz-bang special effects.
A quick glance, however, at the top grossing films of all time, would tend to belie that.
In fact, I'd be interested to know what the highest rated film on the list that you considered to be well written, adult, and not special-effects laden was.
I love mature, well written films (last film I saw was Gosford Park), but generally speaking they don't seem to be the way to make handfuls of cash.
