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In Reply to: A Beautiful Mind posted by David Mester on August 08, 2002 at 12:02:06:
This movie is good example how the senseless cookie-cuter organization can mess up even a winning material. It has so many banal, dull and up-front "solutions" that I actually was laughing like crazy looking at what, how and why those guys tried to do. The sad part is that those Hollywood’s “beautiful minds” actually did this movie for us: their customers assuming, our demands and tastes...
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The story is, in essence, a fascinating one that could have made an excellent film in the right hands. Another thought is that if I go back, several years now, I find some of my favorite films in any given year won oscars for best picture, etc. Hollywood has been slipping for years. If it were up to me, they would stop paying stars so much (they could do with a few less million a year), and put that money into development of quality material. The slippage seems to be much more severe lately...American Beauty, for example, while not a GREAT film in my book, is a masterpiece compared to this piece of garbage.
I know where you guys are comming from. On the DVD Ron Howard discusses how he made many changes based on screen tests and other audience-focused considerations. It seemed that the test audience often pulled in a different direction than I would have. The director seemed very much focused on pleasing a mass audience. Telling were his comments that you can't make a big-budget film like this without needing to consider the ticket-buying end of the story.I remember the dean of my college once saying that he stopped quoting Shakespeare in his speeches and referenced Archie Bunker instead because more people "got" that.
There's a Simpsons episode where Homer becomes "smart" and goes to see a Hollywood romantic comedy movie. He says during the movie, "Well, obviously the girl's not going to pick the snob," and the audience yells at him for spoiling the movie. "I really thought she was going to end up with the snob," says Doctor Hibbard!
Nevertheless, given what someone like Russell Crowe can pull in, I don't think that you're going to see his quality acting in anything less than a Hollywood film that's made to pull in blockbuster audiences. Crowe was one of the highlights of the film for me.
Yes, I understand what you mean. Interestingly that the subject of this movie provided a fantastic opportunities but they went for "I see dead people" type of the garbage. Can you pretend that this professor eventually have gained the techniques to call and to manage his "hallucination" in perfectly controllable fashion and to apply it to benefit his creative force...
I really think they need to include in the advertising whether or not a focus group was used during the post production of a movie.The 12 monkeys collectors edition DVD has a "focus group" session in the "making of" documentary. Quite repulsive. It shows that when directors/producers ignore the focus group results it makes for a more interesting movie.
Tom §.
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