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2006-06-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Mike 2006-06-23 07:13|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I guess Ang Lee hasn't tried filming a movie in Saudi Arabia or North Korea lately. Or Mogadishu.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2006-06-23 13:45|| 2006-06-23 13:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Or even France, where you have to provide x amount of French content and hire x amount of French workers and drink x amount of French wine to be even considered for funding, film fest entries, etc.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-06-23 13:54|| 2006-06-23 13:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Hollywood vacillates between cranking out movies directed with a strict format, strict budget, strict screenwriting, etc., managed by corporate "suits" that know nothing about making a successful movie, but who all want their name associated with a successful project.

On the other hand, then they get the opposite, a director with a huge hit on his hands, a runaway ego in both him and his big-budget actors, and so little studio control that it produces a financial disaster.

Ang Lee is the latter example. He made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon outside of "the system", and so Hollywood gave him complete freedom to ruin The Hulk.

He blew his chance, so they wanted him on a leash, cranking out the reliable, uncreative pap like Chris Columbo, on time and on budget. He reacted by doing a low-budget controversial movie guaranteed to excite the Hollywood homosexual mafia.

This makes no soap with suits who become asexual when money is involved. (This is also why the casting couch has become an anachronism; money is far more important to them than sex of any kind.)

Ang may be finished in Hollywood, if he has pissed off the studios too much with his complaining. The studios are all owned by non-entertainment corporations that have no more patience for artistic temper tantrums than it would if some accountant wanted to come in to work naked.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-23 13:56|| 2006-06-23 13:56|| Front Page Top

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