I Want to Make a Movie!
1,264 views · Published 27 April 2009 · 6:02 · Indexed 4 November 2026
Channel: bloodrunsclear · 2009 · Entertainment
A plea for assistance. - My Deviantart page (featuring screenplays) http://jarredspekter.deviantart.com/ My email: [email protected] - I want to make a movie! It's my favorite of form of entertainment, mostly because it combines all the other arts into one cohesive whole and delivers it to the people, to enjoy as a community. The experiences from movies can affect the viewer unlike anything else. The bonds formed while making films are equally unparalleled. Was a time when filmmaking allowed people to think but presented things to think about, when it transported the viewer to other worlds as fully realized as the one they had left outside the theater, that told stories that made two hours running time seem like a short visit to a good friend. This it seems to me, based on what I read and hear and see, is under attack. Modern filmmaking is obsessed with either 'modernizing' storytelling to the point it becomes pretentious, pondersome, and dull, or so assembly line it ceases to be a story at all and is instead and investment to target a specific mindset and receive a pre-calculated ticket take, art be damned. The studio is an institution designed to make money, and I respect that, but the problem is that the films continue to worsen as the filmmaker's opinions of their audience degrades, raising a new generation from that audience so inured to existential dread, hatred, anger, frustration and monotony that should they become filmmakers they parrot the same destructive note: films pandering to a cynical base packed to the gills with political or social rhetoric and bile, forgotten in a matter of weeks from the public's imagination completely. The modern industry has little staying power and seems destined at the moment to put itself out of business. The cycle needs to end, and it seems only the independent circuit can do it. We need our stories back, our character we can relate to, our experiences that thrilled us and lingered long after the lights had turned back on. Modern dramas and slice of life films are all well and good, but when they make up the entirety of films being made and do nothing but deepen stereotypes and self-hatred I think that action is called for. So, instead of railing against the studios with nasty reviews, I want to instead ideally make or participate in making the kind of films studios will not. I want to make movies taking place in fully realized alternate worlds with their own histories, customs, languages, costumes. I want to make characters that are interesting and entertaining to follow as they make decisions and work their way through the story. I want to not be afraid of having hero characters adhere to traditional morality, even if that morality is not expounded expressly in the stories they inhabit. I want to have special effects dictated by story and enhancing an engrossing narrative so that even when they become outdated the stories they helped to tell will live on.
