Money making Movies. by Milota Sidorova

Hollywood is a pure business and everyone looking for some art should be looking somewhere else. Hollywood at its best is the combination of a movie wiping out theaters and some tastes of art. Commercial meets the vision of art.But let me ask the question – does it seek for more? Businessmen and production studios are happy and satisfied to sell the movies to people. Anything that would be mass demanded. It means a lot of emotions, violence, action or animation.Still, there are some directors able to use this crap, mix it to the unusual, yet impressive and not finished pieces of art. Remember of Lynch's Mulholland Drive or Lost Highway. With a great portion of usual t! ools he created something beyond understanding. Some directors fall back to well tried tools – for example a genre selection – thrillers or dramas. They are selling well. Violence and fear are good business articles. Sometimes they can sell a lot of tickets and still be somewhat understandable, but bit strange remaining of tough artistic experience.I remember Francis Coppola's Apocalypso now that took my breath away. The whole movie followed the mind of a man slowly falling to insanity. The movie was about the prey and the hunter, but seated the basic question – where was the line between them? The person chasing a madman turned into a madman. The brilliant scene making, script, direction and editing made it one of the best movies in Hollywood's history.Another story of soon to be madman is being depicted in Kubrick's Shining with Jack Nicholson. Now it is coming to Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island.Scorsese did a brilliant, yet safe piece of movie. It cert! ainly earned its prize – in two week it sold more than $! 22,665,2 05 in Canada. And as we can expect, Scorsese was following the mind of a madman. Leonardo DiCaprio acted amazing, direction, scene making was amazing as well. The plot line wasn't that original, neither was the script. But the rest could work well for thriller movie fans. Scorsese left some mystery uncovered, such as he used the music – lowered in the breaking points.

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by Milota Sidorova for SigEx Ventures (http://sigexventures.com)

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