What's wrong with today's movie industry?
There's only one pilot for every movie and that it is, of course, its director. I've seen quite a few movies already and I respect them enough as individual art works. But there's been something nagging me for decades now already. What's wrong? It took me this long to realise that it's actually indeed the quality or art shown by today's director. It's a personal sentiment and I'm no artist myself, but I do have a love for the cinema.
First of all, what's the difference between today's output by directors and what's gone on before? Couldn't it be that most of today's young directors have lost that special connection with art which their predecessors in the art business, that being painters, scultors or even photographers, had? Take a look at what the son of a great painter like Jean Renoir in our not so distant past actually produced. He dominated the 1930’s, making an astouding 5 of the top 18 movies then, with 2 still being in our top 100 movies anywhere (Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game) even today.
Secondly, lets take a closer look at the successive movies about the French Cancan or Moulin Rouge, at each one of them, and how cinematography has progressed down a certain path. I guess that Jean Renoir pretty much predicted where we are at now. Especially after a movie critic then criticised the music, the sets, even the final cancan scene of his own movie thus: "The phoniness of the rue Lepic, with its vegetable carts and piles of artificial stones is painful to look at. The actors act. The audience gets bored. The dance rehearsals are Degas all right, but the kind that appears on Post Office calendars." Doesn't that sound familiar?
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First of all, what's the difference between today's output by directors and what's gone on before? Couldn't it be that most of today's young directors have lost that special connection with art which their predecessors in the art business, that being painters, scultors or even photographers, had? Take a look at what the son of a great painter like Jean Renoir in our not so distant past actually produced. He dominated the 1930’s, making an astouding 5 of the top 18 movies then, with 2 still being in our top 100 movies anywhere (Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game) even today.
Secondly, lets take a closer look at the successive movies about the French Cancan or Moulin Rouge, at each one of them, and how cinematography has progressed down a certain path. I guess that Jean Renoir pretty much predicted where we are at now. Especially after a movie critic then criticised the music, the sets, even the final cancan scene of his own movie thus: "The phoniness of the rue Lepic, with its vegetable carts and piles of artificial stones is painful to look at. The actors act. The audience gets bored. The dance rehearsals are Degas all right, but the kind that appears on Post Office calendars." Doesn't that sound familiar?
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