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Re: My sarcasm was intended to be humorous...

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on April 20, 2006 at 10:09:59

In Reply to: My sarcasm was intended to be humorous... posted by SF tech on April 19, 2006 at 14:44:32:

Sarcasm is not humor. If sarcasm was humor, it would be called humor. Lemme see if I understand your last point: Gibson pitches this film to multiple studios, people who are paid very well to spot a money making film. All those studios make the same miscalculation? Oddly enough, though, Gibson, generally an actor, though sometimes moonlighting as a director, and occasionally as a producer, was able to see the enormous profit potential of the film where the studios could not?

Did Miramax and these other so-called independent (which are not independent, but that is for another day) studios line up to contribute? The engine, as you put it, is interested in making gobs of money, and do not care what dress it wears. If explosions sell pictures, they make explosions. Look at the history of Hollywood. They have run through their gangster era, their western era, their science fiction era, their romantic comedy era, their horror era, all in the name of commerce. If Gibson comes in with an idea that will generate bucks, they do not ask whether the film contains explosions, they ante up.

The bias in Hollywood was that a religious picture cannot make money. Your argument that Gibson is part of that estalblishment only supports the argument that this was not a film designed, nor one he believed, would make gobs of money. The logic is thus: If Hollywood does not believe that a religious film can make money, and if Gibson is part of the Hollywood system, then Gibson did not believe the film would make money.

Your argument that the studios will think twice about releasing a religious film also supports that argument. Hollywood is not about crashes, explosions, or any other subject matter, except to the extent that they make money for the studios. They will willingly release religious films if they make money on them.

And not being surprised that the film has done well is not the same thing as saying that it was expected to do well. There are stocks that I am not surprised have done well, but when it came time to invest, I did not believe they would do well. Monday morning quarterbacking is always easy.

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