His Originality Does Not Make Money
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keithmoonhangover — 10 years ago(October 18, 2015 11:58 AM)
They are not about making easy-money by pandering to illiterates, teens and stunted-adults, but by creating real movies that might actually make you think.
What a load of pretentious nonsense. Kaufman's made bad movies the same as everyone else.
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keithmoonhangover — 10 years ago(October 20, 2015 11:02 AM)
You make it sound like 'low IQ' movies are a recent thing. Where have you been for the last hundred years. I love Adaptation, but there' nothing 'high IQ' about it. The idea is cool, but the stories aren't challenging in the slightest.
"These latest comic book flicks are literally being hand-created for a brain-dead foreign audience with ADD." - No, they are being created to make money.
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eljefemartin — 10 years ago(January 02, 2016 05:11 PM)
I think his are very personal movies, which represent his own struggle (with writing) more than the common goal of screenwriters to produce a likeable product. Charlie Kaufman tries to appeal to the finer senses and you need a certain sensibility to look behind the mere presentation of events on screen. There are layers in his stories, which I highly approve of, in times where we are used to blunt forms of entertainment, which sum up to: what you see is what you get. If you open up to a1354 Charlie Kaufman movie, you may discover something about yourself. That is never going to happen with a Transformers movie. The sensation is of a different kind.
I think more than one type of movies are able to coexist, but his movies are like a secluded world, coded to some extent to appeal to those, who can appreciate the effort and struggle that went into the process of making them. It's a certain responsibility he has, not only for each of his movies, but for the audience. The paradox is that movies are meant to reach a large audience and Kaufman wants to be admired or at least liked by the many, but his work really lends itself only to a small group of grateful recipients. I've wondered, why he never thought about writing novels, but I believe he would not have the same impact in prose as in a movie. He's unique and so are his movies. -
theunopeneddoor-697-442391 — 10 years ago(March 06, 2016 04:54 AM)
Nothing high IQ about Adaptation? You're a moron. That film could be the inspiration for a PHD dissertation. It's literally one of the deepest American films ever made with the ideas of relationships, internal struggle, duality of people and a million other themes.
Also so you know, Summer blockbusters didn't even exist before the 1970s. Not until the 21st century did Hollywood put all it's eggs into the lowest common denominator basket. before that they would always use the money from the Summer blockbusters to finance the prestige films. Sure there were bad movies and monster movies and the likebut they were a niche thing and not mainstream like today.
Movies also weren't financed the same way back then. A studio would release ten or twenty movies with the hope one or two would make money. Back then two would play together and if they made money it wasn't always the concern. (that's what the term "B movie" comes from. It wasn't a low budget movie, it was the second most popular movie playing on the marquee)/ The Studio system allowed better movies to be made. Unfortunately people got ripped off too. Then later in the 1970s directors became kings and great movies were produced then. It wasn't until Heaven's Gate killed the idea of art in the film industry by having a ridiculous budget and bombing huge that studio heads made it the ype of business it is now with high concept and the crappy way films are made today. Don Simpson is a major reason why too.
I hope you read this because you have no idea what you are talking about.
P.S. I assure you most Of Charlie's films have made money, otherwise he wouldn't get access to the budgets he does. Synechdoche bombed though.
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eljefemartin — 9 years ago(April 28, 2016 12:52 AM)
You should check, who you reply to, because it looks like you replied to my post and not OP. If you wish for him to read your comments you should try to post them as a reply to his original post. Thank you.