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I just heard Cameron Crowe on the radio talking about "his" new film 'Vanilla Sky'. The man is so amazingly arrogant. He in no way credited the film's original writer and director Alejandro Amenabar, and even refered to his own artistic statements as a writer.. So is doing a remake of someone else's film the same as making your own artistic statement? I'm not too sure about that one, but it's based on a Spanish film called 'Abre Los Ojos' so he's on pretty safe ground given the American consumer's dislike for subtitles.
Normally I would be able to find it in my heart to forgive him, but he then went on to new levels of pretentiousness. He claimed to have invented the technique of having real music sources in the scene, ie Tom and Penelope sit down and decide what cd to put on, and then you hear the cd playing during the scene. Okay Mr.Crowe, so you invented that did you? You invented diegetic sound? Why then was Martin Scorcese doing it as early as the 1980's with 'Mean Streets'? And yet Crowe expounds his own genius for doing something that's been done many times before often to better effect.
My point here isn't to knock the film, which I haven't seen, rather to say credit where credit's due. Cameron Crowe deserves no credit for the storyline or for being a directorial genius, no matter how much he wants that acclaim. If you want to praise the guy, praise him on his own merits, instead of those he's trying to leech off other people.
Normally I would be able to find it in my heart to forgive him, but he then went on to new levels of pretentiousness. He claimed to have invented the technique of having real music sources in the scene, ie Tom and Penelope sit down and decide what cd to put on, and then you hear the cd playing during the scene. Okay Mr.Crowe, so you invented that did you? You invented diegetic sound? Why then was Martin Scorcese doing it as early as the 1980's with 'Mean Streets'? And yet Crowe expounds his own genius for doing something that's been done many times before often to better effect.
My point here isn't to knock the film, which I haven't seen, rather to say credit where credit's due. Cameron Crowe deserves no credit for the storyline or for being a directorial genius, no matter how much he wants that acclaim. If you want to praise the guy, praise him on his own merits, instead of those he's trying to leech off other people.
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I just heard Cameron Crowe on the radio talking about "his" new film 'Vanilla Sky'. The man is so amazingly arrogant. He in no way credited the film's original writer and director Alejandro Amenabar, and even refered to his own artistic statements as a writer.. So is doing a remake of someone else's film the same as making your own artistic statement? I'm not too sure about that one, but it's based on a Spanish film called 'Abre Los Ojos' so he's on pretty safe ground given the American consumer's dislike for subtitles.
Normally I would be able to find it in my heart to forgive him, but he then went on to new levels of pretentiousness. He claimed to have invented the technique of having real music sources in the scene, ie Tom and Penelope sit down and decide what cd to put on, and then you hear the cd playing during the scene. Okay Mr.Crowe, so you invented that did you? You invented diegetic sound? Why then was Martin Scorcese doing it as early as the 1980's with 'Mean Streets'? And yet Crowe expounds his own genius for doing something that's been done many times before often to better effect.
My point here isn't to knock the film, which I haven't seen, rather to say credit where credit's due. Cameron Crowe deserves no credit for the storyline or for being a directorial genius, no matter how much he wants that acclaim. If you want to praise the guy, praise him on his own merits, instead of those he's trying to leech off other people.
Normally I would be able to find it in my heart to forgive him, but he then went on to new levels of pretentiousness. He claimed to have invented the technique of having real music sources in the scene, ie Tom and Penelope sit down and decide what cd to put on, and then you hear the cd playing during the scene. Okay Mr.Crowe, so you invented that did you? You invented diegetic sound? Why then was Martin Scorcese doing it as early as the 1980's with 'Mean Streets'? And yet Crowe expounds his own genius for doing something that's been done many times before often to better effect.
My point here isn't to knock the film, which I haven't seen, rather to say credit where credit's due. Cameron Crowe deserves no credit for the storyline or for being a directorial genius, no matter how much he wants that acclaim. If you want to praise the guy, praise him on his own merits, instead of those he's trying to leech off other people.