Originally posted by Maharbbal
Here is just a though: cinema is for two reasons conservative:
1) As it is in 99% of the cases a story telling project it never gets wildly inventive as litterature or specially painting can.
2) Most of the filmakers are just quoting whoever was before them. Most of them are thinking, so and so did like thing to shoot a love scene, I'll do the same just slightly different. So cinema evolves very slowly.
It is irrelevent directly but I deeply think the object always matters. You do not trade per se you always trade something and you never trade excatly the same way wo different things. The same goes for medias, you're not conservative the same way if you are a school teacher, a journalist or a filmmaker.
My own opinion, one ought to disagree.
M. |
It really depends on in what sense you are using the term "conservative." If you are applying the traditional, caution-oriented definition, then yes, I agree on the grounds that the majority of film makers don't like to take huge risks and would rather just go with what they know sells.
If you are using the term with all of the contemporary social and political implications attached, I would have to disagree.
-Akolouthos