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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (20949)	8/8/2001 2:05:53 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

some directors or producers find them more fun to film than drawing room scenes Fun is not a big part of it. Directors and producers are working with large sums of someone else's money. If the product doesn't make that money back, it may be a long time before the director and producers work again. There's an old saying in the film business: you're only as good as your last project. "Good" is measured by how much money the project made, and today's toast of the town can vanish without trace if the next film is a bust. some people in the entertainment industry, I think, like to push the envelope for the sake of showing how different, or creative, or something they are. You don't get to be different or creative until you can convince certain people - people not much concerned with creativity - that your vision is worth an investment of tens of millions of dollars. That's why we see so much creative violence and sex. It's not because the creative people are a bunch of kinky types, it's because they know that the only way they will get to indulge their creativity is to package it a form that they can pitch to the financier. The entertainment business produces entertainment. It is still a business.