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Re: "cozy arrangement"

"Perhaps the producers just want to make the most profitable films,"

Actually that is mostly the studio execs that keep an eye on the bottom line. but that is how they are judged mostly.


" and they load them up with so many special effects and costumes and all the other ecoutrements of excess simply because they think they'll get a good return on investment."


That is often the case. Sort of. It almost always starts with the writer and then a director. The studios usually are there to say no based on costs but sometimes they believe the effects are the star of a show an pay the toll.

" And I'm no hollywood insider with any privileged knowledge."


I suppose I am to a degree.


" But, one has to wonder if politics isn't as big a part of movie making as anything else."

It is but like politics in anything else it is rarely as simple and black and white as people like to imagine.


" If not because of any direct financial incentive, wouldn't you say that it's possible for a producer to kind of martial support for a project, and that there is a very large constituency of "special interests," like set builders and special effects shops and costume designers who could help get a picture made?"

No. Producers are not subject to the preasures of the artisans. how could they be? The producers hire the artists not the other way around. politics, when you reduce it to it's simplest form, is nothing more than quid pro quo. So what do the set builders and special effects shops have to offer in return for this vast favor of un-needed work the producers are alegedly giving them?

"And I do believe that the Academy favors movies that keep all of the special interests well fed"

I don't. The "special interests' as you call them are quite powerless in the academy.


" -- after all, it's the very same people who work for these interested parties that VOTE on the oscars."


Very few. The academy is mostly made up of actors, directors and producers. The artisans are a small minority and hardly a unified one at that.


" Not some meritoriously selected panel of film experts and art critics."

The artisans largely live with the scraps they get from the academy. fact is the smart ones are grateful for being involved at all. The smart ones know that more toilets flush when they are giving the oscar for best costumes and the like than when they are giving awards to actors and directors.

""Blair Witch" -- an absolutely TERRIBLE movie, by the way -- is the perfect example of a low-budget movie that made scores of millions. Yet, this isn't the kind of horror movie that holly produces. They're not looking for these kind of treatments, though, conceivably, they could be made used for almost any film genre."

1. Hollywood is not a single minded entity. 2. studios are always looking for ideas that they think will be profitable. 3 filmakers are actually far more sincere and artistically minded than the cynics realize. 4 film making is an art of compramise. Unless one is making a movie on a Blair Witch budget one has to answer to people that are concerned about the bottom line.

"I'm not saying you're wrong. But, if you're 100% right, you have to conclude that there are very dumb people producing movies, with big budget flops of all kinds littering the movie theaters."

Even large groups of smart people can make bad movies. but not everyone is smart and rarely is everyone on the same page. Movies are complicated to make and a lot can o wrong along the way.


" Why don't they just get lean and mean?"


sometimes they do.



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