On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:41:46 -0500, Star Gate SG1 (don't
bother....send to this newsgroup) wrote:
>
>The studios seem to have forgotten that their job is
>to make the movie and then sell it to people who will
>pay money to see it.
Well, the studios can't have forgotten that this is their job --
there's no one *at* the studios in the upper tiers of the
conglomerates that own them that are really interested in movies.
They're the ones that let the marketing tails wag the moviemaking dog.
Ultimately, even the great bigwigs at the top -- Nina Tassler at CBS,
Dawn Ostroff, Peter Roth at Warner, etc. -- are at the mercy of the
Sumner Redstones and Les Moooooonveses and Rupert Murdochs above them
who couldn't give a good goddamn less what the creators of the movies
want.
OTOH, Birds of American is an indie flick being made by a noted
playwright, Craig Lucas, so I think it's helpful to keep in mind that
the movie is a work-in-progress not until SUndance, but until way
later, when it either hits the theaters or it hits DVD, whichever
comes first. So I am kinda willing to let him change his mind if
that's what's happening.
>>Give them a break -- new titles are kinda hard to come by because
>>pretty much any 1, 2 or 3-word title is either already taken or has
>>been used 3-4 times already. Take, for instance, the title "Crash,"
>>which is the name of both a car-crash mutilation fetish movie from the
>>90's direct by David Cronenberg *and* the Best-Picture winner two
>>years ago.
>Well maybe crash is a great name to avoid......too overused.
>
>Why only keep it to 1 2 or 3 word titles? Borat had a long
>title and it was succsssful.
Borat was a broad, surreal comedy -- the more out-there a movie is,
the more latitude the moviemaker gets in giving it a title. OTOH, no
one refers to Borat by its full name, it's just referred to as Borat.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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