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The majority of modern Hollywood films are infantile. They take no knowledge of life, no sensitivity of emotions, to understand them. Film teachers and most critics like films like BladeRunner and or Pulp Fiction they can be explained to a film or media class with ten catch phrases in fifty minutes.
Requiring no understanding of people, no cultural awareness or historical knowledge. Steven Speilberg tried to break this cycle with ‘A.I.’, he wanted to show something about life, about the difference between people, and about emotional confusion. However his attempt was in vain with most of the reasons being that nobody wanted a film they had to think about.
Nobody cared too much about paying to watch a film to see an amazingly interesting philosophical question put across. This was a rare film that was thrown back by critics, even the newest Hollywood ‘thought processing’ film ‘Vanilla Sky’ has been hit around by critics who cannot be bothered to read into the meanings and subtext in the film.
Hollywood will therefore continue to produce infantile films that don’t threaten the audience into thought. They are weightless emotional experiences. Nothing serious at stake. If it makes money, Hollywood will make it. As sad as that is. Its true. :(
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er-no
Requiring no understanding of people, no cultural awareness or historical knowledge. Steven Speilberg tried to break this cycle with ‘A.I.’, he wanted to show something about life, about the difference between people, and about emotional confusion. However his attempt was in vain with most of the reasons being that nobody wanted a film they had to think about.
Nobody cared too much about paying to watch a film to see an amazingly interesting philosophical question put across. This was a rare film that was thrown back by critics, even the newest Hollywood ‘thought processing’ film ‘Vanilla Sky’ has been hit around by critics who cannot be bothered to read into the meanings and subtext in the film.
Hollywood will therefore continue to produce infantile films that don’t threaten the audience into thought. They are weightless emotional experiences. Nothing serious at stake. If it makes money, Hollywood will make it. As sad as that is. Its true. :(
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er-no
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er-no wrote:
> The majority of modern Hollywood films are infantile. They take no knowledge of
> life, no sensitivity of emotions, to understand them.
I watched "A Walk To Remember" the other day. Almost had me in tears that did. It was a very emotional film. The fact that it kinda dealt with something I experianced when I was younger helped to make it have more feeling to me. But it was still a good, very emotional film.
:)
> The majority of modern Hollywood films are infantile. They take no knowledge of
> life, no sensitivity of emotions, to understand them.
I watched "A Walk To Remember" the other day. Almost had me in tears that did. It was a very emotional film. The fact that it kinda dealt with something I experianced when I was younger helped to make it have more feeling to me. But it was still a good, very emotional film.
:)
er-no wrote:
Requiring no
> understanding of people, no cultural awareness or historical knowledge.
Nobody cared too much about paying to
> watch a film to see an amazingly interesting philosophical question put across.
> cannot be bothered to read into the meanings and subtext in the film.
I think that Bladerunner is a bad example here. The essence of the film is in questionning what makes us human. OK, so it may be a good film to pick apart for film critics, but there are not many other films that I have seen (and I must admit to not having seen AI) that have left me asking so many questions.
The replicants in Bladerunner believe themselves to be alive, they love, hate, have emotions and memories, these may be artificial, but if they "feel" them they are real to them. Does this not make them human? [Just like to say I don't want to get into an argument about this, just saying the point the film is trying to make!]
The film is meant to make you question yourself. It is not a mindless dumbing down by Hollywood. I agree that the majority of Hollywood films are generally not there to make you think, but, as I have said before in these forums, is that a bad thing? People choose to watch certain films, if they wanted to stimulate their mind they would choose to see a deep, thought-provoking film. But they don't. They choose the latest Arnie shoot-em-up. So is Hollywood wrong to produce these films.....yes and no.
Well that's answered absolutely nothing. Good.
Requiring no
> understanding of people, no cultural awareness or historical knowledge.
Nobody cared too much about paying to
> watch a film to see an amazingly interesting philosophical question put across.
> cannot be bothered to read into the meanings and subtext in the film.
I think that Bladerunner is a bad example here. The essence of the film is in questionning what makes us human. OK, so it may be a good film to pick apart for film critics, but there are not many other films that I have seen (and I must admit to not having seen AI) that have left me asking so many questions.
The replicants in Bladerunner believe themselves to be alive, they love, hate, have emotions and memories, these may be artificial, but if they "feel" them they are real to them. Does this not make them human? [Just like to say I don't want to get into an argument about this, just saying the point the film is trying to make!]
The film is meant to make you question yourself. It is not a mindless dumbing down by Hollywood. I agree that the majority of Hollywood films are generally not there to make you think, but, as I have said before in these forums, is that a bad thing? People choose to watch certain films, if they wanted to stimulate their mind they would choose to see a deep, thought-provoking film. But they don't. They choose the latest Arnie shoot-em-up. So is Hollywood wrong to produce these films.....yes and no.
Well that's answered absolutely nothing. Good.
The majority of modern Hollywood films are infantile. They take no knowledge of life, no sensitivity of emotions, to understand them. Film teachers and most critics like films like BladeRunner and or Pulp Fiction they can be explained to a film or media class with ten catch phrases in fifty minutes.
Requiring no understanding of people, no cultural awareness or historical knowledge. Steven Speilberg tried to break this cycle with ‘A.I.’, he wanted to show something about life, about the difference between people, and about emotional confusion. However his attempt was in vain with most of the reasons being that nobody wanted a film they had to think about.
Nobody cared too much about paying to watch a film to see an amazingly interesting philosophical question put across. This was a rare film that was thrown back by critics, even the newest Hollywood ‘thought processing’ film ‘Vanilla Sky’ has been hit around by critics who cannot be bothered to read into the meanings and subtext in the film.
Hollywood will therefore continue to produce infantile films that don’t threaten the audience into thought. They are weightless emotional experiences. Nothing serious at stake. If it makes money, Hollywood will make it. As sad as that is. Its true. :(
Thanks
er-no
Requiring no understanding of people, no cultural awareness or historical knowledge. Steven Speilberg tried to break this cycle with ‘A.I.’, he wanted to show something about life, about the difference between people, and about emotional confusion. However his attempt was in vain with most of the reasons being that nobody wanted a film they had to think about.
Nobody cared too much about paying to watch a film to see an amazingly interesting philosophical question put across. This was a rare film that was thrown back by critics, even the newest Hollywood ‘thought processing’ film ‘Vanilla Sky’ has been hit around by critics who cannot be bothered to read into the meanings and subtext in the film.
Hollywood will therefore continue to produce infantile films that don’t threaten the audience into thought. They are weightless emotional experiences. Nothing serious at stake. If it makes money, Hollywood will make it. As sad as that is. Its true. :(
Thanks
er-no
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