But cinema is not like other art forms. It is inherently commercial,
Every professional artist (not the weekend painter) is in it for the commercial aspects.
As to the theory that one is restrained from pushing the envelope by corporate interests and budgets, well, I look at some of the stuff that comes out from the movie distributors and I think they pretty well disprove that. The envelope is pushed big time by lots of these moveies.
Some of which become big successes, others of which go down in flames.
The same argument could be made about architecture, in spades; bigger budgets, much longer lasting, longer time frames, big corporate interests. But some architects push the envelope, too, in pretty major ways.
IMO, that's what artists do, that's what they have done for thousands of years, in lots of cases they have managed to find the funding to support them.
Do you really see a lot of restraint and failure to push the envelope in the movies you see? Assuming the Phillipines get the same movies we do. |
