Remember when everyone lost their shit when they forcefully pushed black man as god in Bruce the Almighty? No?
Because Morgan Freeman is an amazing actor. Not Amazing black actor. Just actor. No qualifiers needed. He fitted that role like he was born to play god.
More recent example is Dolemite Is My Name. Its a great biography/comedy.
You can have great minority actors or whole cast movies if its natural and not forced.
This is another calculated PR stunt by Hollywoo - a desperate attempt to stay relevant. Anyhow their golden years are 20 years past us. Apart from Nolan and Tarantino there are hardly any interesting movie productions. Most interesting stuff is on netflix et al.
So have a good drown Hollywoo as you go down all alone dragged down by that stash of sequel cash.
A lot of other movies as well (It was mentioned in Dolemite Is My Name). Clerks was black and white because of cost.
Gimbals, scouts, dangerous stunts and everything else can be done cheap. You can pirate editing software if you have to. I've seen nothing to say Snowbrawl had CGI or expensive post production applied.
Cheap film has been the holey grail for a long time.
Now we get to see did the artificial barrier of filming cost improve film quality, or did we miss out on great directors, actors and films.
On a slightly unrelated note, did anyone watch the new film Dolemite Is My Name? It celebrates a film financed by a single individual (sort of) that noone in the industry wanted to touch. It's important to recognise that even then (1970s) it was hard to pitch new ideas for films and get funding. That said, Dolemite would have been a tough sell for a newbie film producer.
Regular people are smarter and want more complexity than the film execs give them credit for. I have fond memories of going to the cinema and watching a lesser known or indie film, or going to Blockbuster and picking out strange unknown titles , and having an actual human experience, rather than just being entertained.
Sadly we have more "choice" with streaming, but a limited one. Only those sanctioned for our consumption. Sort of like an "any colour you like, but..." scenario.
I hope that those with big bold or different ideas can continue to create in the new paradigm. Good on Scorsese in making the Netflix deal and keeping his principles.
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Remember when everyone lost their shit when they forcefully pushed black man as god in Bruce the Almighty? No?
Because Morgan Freeman is an amazing actor. Not Amazing black actor. Just actor. No qualifiers needed. He fitted that role like he was born to play god.
More recent example is Dolemite Is My Name. Its a great biography/comedy.
You can have great minority actors or whole cast movies if its natural and not forced.
This is another calculated PR stunt by Hollywoo - a desperate attempt to stay relevant. Anyhow their golden years are 20 years past us. Apart from Nolan and Tarantino there are hardly any interesting movie productions. Most interesting stuff is on netflix et al.
So have a good drown Hollywoo as you go down all alone dragged down by that stash of sequel cash.
Swingers for instance had to be shot on short ends. http://grantland.com/features/an-oral-history-swingers.
A lot of other movies as well (It was mentioned in Dolemite Is My Name). Clerks was black and white because of cost.
Gimbals, scouts, dangerous stunts and everything else can be done cheap. You can pirate editing software if you have to. I've seen nothing to say Snowbrawl had CGI or expensive post production applied.
Cheap film has been the holey grail for a long time.
Now we get to see did the artificial barrier of filming cost improve film quality, or did we miss out on great directors, actors and films.
I see no proof either way yet.
On a slightly unrelated note, did anyone watch the new film Dolemite Is My Name? It celebrates a film financed by a single individual (sort of) that noone in the industry wanted to touch. It's important to recognise that even then (1970s) it was hard to pitch new ideas for films and get funding. That said, Dolemite would have been a tough sell for a newbie film producer.
Regular people are smarter and want more complexity than the film execs give them credit for. I have fond memories of going to the cinema and watching a lesser known or indie film, or going to Blockbuster and picking out strange unknown titles , and having an actual human experience, rather than just being entertained.
Sadly we have more "choice" with streaming, but a limited one. Only those sanctioned for our consumption. Sort of like an "any colour you like, but..." scenario.
I hope that those with big bold or different ideas can continue to create in the new paradigm. Good on Scorsese in making the Netflix deal and keeping his principles.