Where
has all the originality gone in the modern-day film industry? Too often
in the last decade, movies have consisted of a mere retelling, spinoff,
or “fresh” perspective on another. Fearing the considerable risk of
failure that originality may bring, the Hollywood film industry has been
reduced to cobbling together overused tropes and has stripped ideas
from other artists. The colossal expense of making movies, from actors’
salaries to the cost of special effects, weighed against the fickle
hearts of the masses is enough for anyone to lean toward the safe bet of
tried and true tropes. So where does that leave us? Are we doomed to
cycle through the same stories over and over until they’ve been so
whitewashed that even the simplest minds to entertain catch on? I
declare to you now: no. The art of film is still a flourishing,
ever-expanding medium of entertainment; we’ve simply forgotten or never
knew where to look. This all-pervading ignorance would be the doing of
the Hollywood film industry hedging its bets and dazzling the public
with a shiny new version of the same old thing, drawing attention away
from the genuine originality of the independent filmmaker.
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Sunday, March 20, 2016
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