At 12:17 6.7.1998 -0400, you wrote:
>Buzzy> As long as people support (i.e., buy tickets for) turkeys like
>GODZILLA and ARMAGEDDON, you are doing nothing to encourage Hollywood
>to make -good- sf movies. It's like supporting a losing professional
>sports team; fill the stadium for every game, and you give the owners
>no reason to spend the money necessary to build a winner.
>
>-- Mike Resnick
Hi, Mike!
I'd use another compariosn, a bit. I'd say that it is like if very
good winning team play just "show games".
If you take the very first short film in the histiry, mostly they
were grotesques, what is still more important they were "mute", so
everything had to be express by movings, scenes and actor's playing -
mimic expression. So one couldn't express so many thougts and
philosophic opinions in films like in theatre plays and books. Cinema
was made on visual arts. Then, the film "could speak". And it was used
well, many times a good film "say" something that was very nice and
one could think about it. Like a book. The time is flying and... we are
in the period when Hollywood has got an incredible possibility - the cinema
are made with a very good acoustic apparatures, computer can make many
good effects... well, it is hard not to use it and not to return to the origin
purpuse of cinema - entertainemt - to base films just on visual effects.
Plus, I can imagine that producers make pressure on them to make movies
that earn.
Anyway, I think it is question of time when all (directors, actors, people)
become tired of films just with special effects.
A show game can be very funny, but it is hard that it is remembered by
many people for a long time. Even now, we can admire films by Hitchock etc.
But I can bet that in 10 years nobody will remember films mentioned above.
I can say when I go in cinema, now, I know I go to see an amazing advanture.
I give you an example. When Iread Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton,
I was really admired this idea as there are interesting thoughts,
informations.
The film Jurassic Park couldn't contein one third of it. It was nice to
see how "dinousaurus from the book and fantasy can become alive" because of
specaila effects. It was made very well and I like it. However, the book
has given me much more. But I wasn't disappointed as sometimes it is nice to
see how words can turn in being "alive".
But I agree that Hollywood can do better "results", but still I don't
consider it like a losing result.
Jitka
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