Films from India crush Hollywood output.
As the Hate America "film" community in Hollywood postures as if all is OK, the real news is the success of Indian films and the fact that a foreign movie with Indian dialogue was the top movie in France this last weekend. Will Hollywood go to the graveyard like the auto companies did in the 70s or will they somehow cut both costs and bullshit? Them? Cut back on a life style? Too many multi-millionaires have their
bread buttered Ferrari gas guzzlers fueled by the current system. Think about it, agents, publishers, entire crafts, as well as the entire "talent" pool will do exactly what Detroit did, which was to do anything to preserve the status quo rather than recall their purpose and actually produce reliable, economic, family transportation. No, they continued production of the monster machine with planned three year obsolescence, a plan that guaranteed the dope customer (you and me) would come back and buy another one. Same with movies. The orginial purpose was to produce family "entertainment" at a reasonable price. We are seeing the beginning of a World takeover of the movie business by Asian (particularly Indian) stars and movies. Nobody here will notice. Right now "locally produced" movies are taking over for Hollywood crap, something that even the Dutch are doing.
Even smaller overseas markets are showing off their locally made movies. Recently, three Dutch titles were among the four top-grossing films in the country. Last week, a police drama, "Missing" (Vermist), directed by Jan Verheyen, set a new record for a domestic film in Belgium, and the weekend also marked a high point for other local movies, including "Plop and the Penguin" from Dutch-speaking Flanders.
Nobody wants to remember that if it wasn't for Hitler, Berlin would most likely have been the "film capitol of the world." Hollywood's only chance is to produce entertainment again; like story, spectacular visuals, and feel good movies with attractive people for a reasonable price.
2 comments:
Yeah, I watched some of the early Brollywood product when I was overseas. Even without dubbing it was a hoot and FUN. Good guys and bad guys and the hero gets the girl(who really looks like a woman - not a18 year old metro-sexual of indeterminent sex) in the end. Usually after several complicated plots and several song and dance numbers
Right on Howard. The Detroit analogy is good -- just as the dealership system of selling cars hasn't changed because there are just too many rice bowls involved, the movie business won't change even if it knows it must. Personally I love the writers strike because it boosts everyone else besides Hollyweird. Aparallel thing to the Bollywood movies would be the phenomenon of Americans watching Spanish-language TV because U.S. network fare is just so bad.
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