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Thursday, September 26, 2024
Why Even Indies Are Struggling to Develop Original Films Internally
www.indiewire.com/news: When producer David Beaubaire was an executive at Warner Bros., DreamWorks, Paramount, and Sony, he made movies like “Up in the Air,” “Dreamgirls,” “Flight,” and “The Big Short” — the kinds of original studio projects that aren’t often made today.
The concept of originality has been around for decades and the film business specifically suffers from the cost and probability in creating new original art. But I think the interesting part about the film industry's argument about originality is that the main complainers are not a part of the industry. Many people who complain about the sequels and live action remakes are normal people with commercial jobs. They don't know how much time and money goes into the production of movies, especially if the idea is original and the chance of failure is that much higher. They are also hypocritical and normally just looking for something to complain about. For example Dreamworks, a well known studio released The Wild Robot, a movie yes based off a book but not a sequel came out just yesterday and nobody is talking about it. It is filled with beautiful animation and lovely family friendly storyline, everything these critics might want to see and nobody talks about it. Overall the movie industry may be filled with sequels and originality may be lacking but the main complainers are not acting on their points rather just arguing on the internet.
I wish it was easier for indie films to get the kind of attention decent attention in the film industry the same way that indie games can blow up in the video game industry. It does make sense, the labor costs of indie are so intense that in order to keep up with the massive studios you basically have one chance to make a hit before money becomes an issue, assuming you even had the money to begin with to compete with big box companies. Some of the best ever pieces of entertainment that I’ve consumed have been from indie developers or studios because they don’t have a big plotline to continue off of the same way Pixar can make the umpteenth Toy Story related movie. It fosters creativity in a way that massive film studios can struggle with sometimes because once a story has become a hit, it can be hard to not piggyback off of it for a while.
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The concept of originality has been around for decades and the film business specifically suffers from the cost and probability in creating new original art. But I think the interesting part about the film industry's argument about originality is that the main complainers are not a part of the industry. Many people who complain about the sequels and live action remakes are normal people with commercial jobs. They don't know how much time and money goes into the production of movies, especially if the idea is original and the chance of failure is that much higher. They are also hypocritical and normally just looking for something to complain about. For example Dreamworks, a well known studio released The Wild Robot, a movie yes based off a book but not a sequel came out just yesterday and nobody is talking about it. It is filled with beautiful animation and lovely family friendly storyline, everything these critics might want to see and nobody talks about it. Overall the movie industry may be filled with sequels and originality may be lacking but the main complainers are not acting on their points rather just arguing on the internet.
I wish it was easier for indie films to get the kind of attention decent attention in the film industry the same way that indie games can blow up in the video game industry. It does make sense, the labor costs of indie are so intense that in order to keep up with the massive studios you basically have one chance to make a hit before money becomes an issue, assuming you even had the money to begin with to compete with big box companies. Some of the best ever pieces of entertainment that I’ve consumed have been from indie developers or studios because they don’t have a big plotline to continue off of the same way Pixar can make the umpteenth Toy Story related movie. It fosters creativity in a way that massive film studios can struggle with sometimes because once a story has become a hit, it can be hard to not piggyback off of it for a while.
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