If they want people to not look away or do something else while the movie is playing you gotta keep it interesting.
Ya know, like perhaps making movies that aren’t just rehashes of the same old stories.
Make movies and shows that keep people on their toes!
Making a crime drama? Throw in some traveler from the future or a demon or both! Give the judge two heads because of a “merging accident” or something!
Putting together a horror movie? Throw in some romance among the monsters! Have them feed each other eyeballs or something!
Making an anime? Try something totally radical! Like a male protagonist with non-dark hair that has a personality, or make a couple—in love—who get stuck somewhere together, alone have actual sex (like normal teens would) or something!
Making a K-drama? Add a black guy and make him one of the main characters… Haha, just kidding! That would be too radical! That’d be just as extreme as making an anime that covers the time period a few years after “the hero” formed his harem!
I’m pretty boring. I like depth of writing, artful cinematography, expert acting all the way down to two-line roles, least amount of cgi/green screen as possible (fake fire doesn’t look real, and cgi car chases look cheesy af), not the same actors ive seen in stuff for the past 20+ years (but i do like famous actors who absolutely slay a completely new type of role for them – like Jim Carrey did in Truman Show), fantastic dialogue that doesn’t spoon feed exposition and subtext, skilled editing that makes the aforementioned cinematography serve some subtext, and directing that can masterfully weave it all together. Ya know – a quality film.
Meh. If I have to watch an Oscar winner that has all those things but it’s the same old story that I’ve seen redone a thousand times forget it. I don’t care that the acting was fantastic or that the cinematography was absolutely the best. I still know what’s about to happen.
Comedy can be great no matter who is in it and the cinematography doesn’t matter. That’s because the dialogue needs to be fresh and clever or it just won’t be funny 🤷
Give me more weird and interesting sci fi and fantasy! Throw the fantastic writers and cinematography at that instead of "guaranteed minimum sales/viewers* like we’re currently living with for 90% of all movies and shows.
Talk about the wrong response!
If they want people to not look away or do something else while the movie is playing you gotta keep it interesting.
Ya know, like perhaps making movies that aren’t just rehashes of the same old stories.
Make movies and shows that keep people on their toes!
Making a crime drama? Throw in some traveler from the future or a demon or both! Give the judge two heads because of a “merging accident” or something!
Putting together a horror movie? Throw in some romance among the monsters! Have them feed each other eyeballs or something!
Making an anime? Try something totally radical! Like a male protagonist with non-dark hair that has a personality, or make a couple—in love—who get stuck somewhere together, alone have actual sex (like normal teens would) or something!
Making a K-drama? Add a black guy and make him one of the main characters… Haha, just kidding! That would be too radical! That’d be just as extreme as making an anime that covers the time period a few years after “the hero” formed his harem!
And what then? How does anything you’ve proposed matter?
It’ll be more interesting.
Why? Are you satisfied by simple window dressing?
Why do you think interesting stories are mere window dressing? Window dressing is hiring famous actors and recording pretty faces in pretty places.
Wow… I dont want to see any of those potential movies you just pitched.
That’s fine! How would you keep things interesting?
Or are you just boring?
I’m pretty boring. I like depth of writing, artful cinematography, expert acting all the way down to two-line roles, least amount of cgi/green screen as possible (fake fire doesn’t look real, and cgi car chases look cheesy af), not the same actors ive seen in stuff for the past 20+ years (but i do like famous actors who absolutely slay a completely new type of role for them – like Jim Carrey did in Truman Show), fantastic dialogue that doesn’t spoon feed exposition and subtext, skilled editing that makes the aforementioned cinematography serve some subtext, and directing that can masterfully weave it all together. Ya know – a quality film.
Meh. If I have to watch an Oscar winner that has all those things but it’s the same old story that I’ve seen redone a thousand times forget it. I don’t care that the acting was fantastic or that the cinematography was absolutely the best. I still know what’s about to happen.
Comedy can be great no matter who is in it and the cinematography doesn’t matter. That’s because the dialogue needs to be fresh and clever or it just won’t be funny 🤷
Give me more weird and interesting sci fi and fantasy! Throw the fantastic writers and cinematography at that instead of "guaranteed minimum sales/viewers* like we’re currently living with for 90% of all movies and shows.
Interesting takes skill. Skill takes money. Capitalists don’t care about skill or art. They are only interested in money.