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    Here's a pretty good Frontline report about modern Hollywood
    and why the business acts in the dysfuctional way it does, and
    why it may not be able to do so much longer...

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...ows/hollywood/


    Rick

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    this is a very good program. it tells someone like me who missed a lot of those years quite a bit about the industry and how it changed. thanks again Rick.

    so are you a spielberg and lucas fan?

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    Quote Originally Posted by metalaaron
    so are you a spielberg and lucas fan?
    If you're talking about raw talent, then yeah, I'm a Spielberg fan.
    Even though I don't think he's made a completely satisfying movie
    since "Raiders", no other American director understands (and can
    control) the emotional power of pictures and sound the way he does.
    He's not an intellectual, or the hippest kid on the block. And I wish he
    cared more about the importance of writing.
    But when it comes to putting shot A before shot B before shot C, combined
    with a precise, specific sound design, all orchestrated to elicit a series of
    precise emotional reactions in the viewer from moment to moment, he's
    a genius. When he "turns it on", he makes everybody else look like 2nd
    year film students. His best stuff are long sequences, usually with little
    or no dialogue, where you find yourself so pulled into the movie, you lose
    the experience of sitting in a theater. You're just "in the movie". It's Cinema
    101. And when he does it, it's exhilarating.

    Lucas.......not so much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mattepntr
    Even though I don't think he's made a completely satisfying movie since "Raiders"
    I've been a huge fan of Raiders since I saw it in the theater at the ripe age of 8, but for my money Empire of the Sun & the Color Purple are infinitely more accomplished films, and I quite enjoyed Minority Report as well...
    Last edited by sensibull; 02-23-2006 at 06:05 AM.

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    This is a very insightful thread. Thanks, Rick

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