Even if your story is the best in the world, even if your dialogue would put Shakespeare to shame, even if your cinematography is beautiful and mystical, your moving picture isn't going to be called art outside of the movie community. You want to know why? It's the "MOVING PICTURE" part of a MOVING PICTURE. You know, the part where you spend hours watching flashing light up on a big screen. Why is this a dooming quality? Because it could effectively be replaced by words in a book, and only bests literature in its ability to sell shit. "But, you filthy, dirt encrusted dog whose name I don't dare speak lest it soil my soul," I hear you spit from the corner of your mouth as you try to comprehend talking to someone so utterly disgusting and morally bankrupt, "A lot of art is just corporate bollocks! Some great works of art don't send us a window into the artists soul. Think of Andy Warhol. His art was just fucking soup cans!" And so you sit back on your throne of moral superioty, having won the day.
Or so you think. But first off, Andy Warhol was a load of shit between to shits on a shit sandwich, (so I basically included them just to get a dig in,) and all those other pointless bits of art are just advertisements because that's what they are supposed to be. They are selling a culture of buying and selling, so to speak. Whereas all of the moving pictures in movies could be replaced by words on a page. oh, sure, some moving pictures will be art, but they won't be movies. They'll be dreary explorations of angst, probably made in France, and your only purpose for watching is to "make you feel his pain." But they won't be called movies, oh no. They'll be called "films" or some such crap. So don't delude yourself. No moving picture is going to come along and redefine art and movies as we know it. movies will never be accepted.
Now, I'm not just here to get beaten up and have my lunch money stolen, and you're not just here to beat me up and steal my lunch money! Your job, escapists, is to engineer a likely scenario in which movies will be accepted. LIKELY! REALISTIC! KEY WORDS, PEOPLE! Or, failing that, just comment on what I've written. I'm just as depressed as you aren't, and I want you to pull me out of my funk. I apologize for my massive case of not being able to learn from the past.
Or so you think. But first off, Andy Warhol was a load of shit between to shits on a shit sandwich, (so I basically included them just to get a dig in,) and all those other pointless bits of art are just advertisements because that's what they are supposed to be. They are selling a culture of buying and selling, so to speak. Whereas all of the moving pictures in movies could be replaced by words on a page. oh, sure, some moving pictures will be art, but they won't be movies. They'll be dreary explorations of angst, probably made in France, and your only purpose for watching is to "make you feel his pain." But they won't be called movies, oh no. They'll be called "films" or some such crap. So don't delude yourself. No moving picture is going to come along and redefine art and movies as we know it. movies will never be accepted.
Now, I'm not just here to get beaten up and have my lunch money stolen, and you're not just here to beat me up and steal my lunch money! Your job, escapists, is to engineer a likely scenario in which movies will be accepted. LIKELY! REALISTIC! KEY WORDS, PEOPLE! Or, failing that, just comment on what I've written. I'm just as depressed as you aren't, and I want you to pull me out of my funk. I apologize for my massive case of not being able to learn from the past.
