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To: Lane3 who wrote (20987)	8/8/2001 8:16:27 PM
From: Win Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Karen, I think money is a big part of Hollywood's problem. Movies cost so much to make and promote, the business side is very cautious about putting big bucks behind anything that's not ... tried and proven. Of course, in the 50s, movies didn't cost much to make, but they weren't very adventurous either. There were other problems then.

To: Lane3 who wrote (20987)	8/8/2001 8:54:07 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Well, some are pushing other envelopes. Matrix, the Spielberg film on the holocaust the name of which will come to me, are examples of movies pushing the envelope in what I would consider artistic, not gratituous directions. But you're right in general -- pushing the sex and violence envelopes. The question that arose quite a few posts ago was whether that is purely a response to consumer demand, for commercial purposes, or whether it is driven in part by the directors' desires to push the envelope for their own artistic (or egotistic) reasons. I suspect it's a combination, but I don't know how much of which factors.