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More people have finally been catching on to the sense that Hollywood has lost creativity.  I recently was looking at a blog entry from Wong Fu Productions about an article on Hollywood is dead.  All the points made in both article and blog post are very touching and true.  Read the article to get a better understanding:

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201102/the-day-the-movies-died-mark-harris

Hollywood has come to the point where the business side controls all aspect of the movie.  It controls the script.  It controls the artistic vision.  It controls the cast and crew.  It controls everything about a movie which eventually takes the original creator’s vision away from the thing he or she worked so hard to get.  Here’s a summary of what happens to a screenwriter and his/her script.  They hand in their script to the studio.  If it is well liked, the studio pays the writer tons of money and that’s it, no control or sneak peek at what the studio will do to the script.  The script then goes through a long process of studio rewrites to make it “like that already successful movie”.  What does this do?  It kills the vision of and dreams of what the writer wanted; a masterpiece gone down the drain.  A story about love and romance all of a sudden turns to a story about vampires.

We’ve come to a point in time where Hollywood believes it’s good that we don’t do anything new.  They believe their feature films should be like everyone else’s feature film because it makes MONEY.  But what does that do to the actual creators of the movie?  What does it do to the one’s who wish to bring a fresh coat of paint to the movies?  It just kills the creativity.

For the past semester and a half as a film student, I’m actually starting to turn away from Hollywood and embrace the Indie film world.  I’ve been learning about the world of Hollywood and starting to see how stubborn the studios are.  The truth about these big studio executives is that they don’t want to change tradition or risk everything on an Inception which could be the potential big hit.  Money is key to Hollywood.  It makes sense, but in all honesty movies are entertainment and must be enjoyed.  Audiences don’t want to pay $10 to see the same movie over and over again.

As of now, I really do want to keep on pursuing an Indie film studio career.  The reason is because I like to do films my own way.  I want to write my own stories and have only a few people look at the script for editing rather than 50+ writers making their own spin to a story I wrote.  I don’t want some executive telling me that my vision is all wrong on how the movie should be taken.  No, not for me.  Film is about creativity.  Sure I would love to work in Hollywood, but I don’t want to be making movies about franchises.  I want to bring a fresh twist like Coppola or Spielberg did in their early career.  But unfortunately, I don’t see this conforming era of movies coming to an end anytime soon.  It’s not going to stop unless we do something.  Unless we step up and show we want creativity.  We can then give the writers and filmmakers out there a chance to show their true colors.  But until then, Hollywood needs to face the facts that they need to stop being stubborn and change their ways.