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Hollywood has indeed run out of talent and imagination...and is admitting this, although not outright, by going back to titles, plots and characters that are recognized for talent, originality and inspiration.
Some of the landmark periods of film were the late '30s, the late '40s through the early '50s, and the late '60s through to the early '70s. There are the eras from which the remakes are being pulled. Other eras are being pulled from for inspiration , as someone pointed out, because of recognition and possibly a nostalgia of more recent vintage.
Your run of the mill actor is, admittedly, very flat and drab. Deliver line, face emotion, move through steps. Few are believable, those that are still don't inspire because of the writing. Greed motivates producers to pick lousy crews and directors. Box office sales are the bottom line, and if a person has their name on a lucrative title, they're sure to get jobs over those who might be far more talented.
Personally, I'd like to shoot some casting diretors out there. I'd like to line them right up next to a long list of producers and directors, too. Anyone involved with Pearl Harbor needs to be deep sixed, and FAST. Jerry Bruckheimer would do well to stand a bit to close to another massive avgas fireball on the set of whatever film he's shooting. Whoever stuck pompous jack@$$ Alec Baldwin in the role of humble, respected Jimmy Doolittle should be dropped from the bomb bay of a B-25 in a very large expanse of water.
I'm not an actor, myself. I got lucky with my screen time. People keep asking me when I'm going to get famous, and I tell them it'll happen when the sun supernovas, hopefully to spare the world of another lousy 'actor' with no formal training. There are many, many real actors out there with proper training and real talent who deserve a far better chance than I've had. I've seen some TERRIBLE choices just in six months of cable program filming at the rate of roughly one per month(conversely, I saw some great stuff, as well)...I think people don't realize what they're doing when they make these choices, they're just doing their job. Modern film / tv production is strictly profit driven, however, and that is probably the primary cause of what we consider all that's wrong with today's Hollywood. Money is a bigger draw than a love for the art, and this is why we're seeing far more original , fresh, and soulful productions coming out of actors, directors, and companies that aren't part of the big industrial machine.
Now, to temper all of this, truly good remakes of classic movies can come of of big-name companies, actors, and directors...the LOVE of the art has to be there. I've got two movies in mind, A Guy Named Joe and Always. This is the same movie with a different backdrop, and both work beautifully, produced more than forty years apart. In this case, Richard Dreyfuss and Steven Spielberg shared a love for a A Guy Named Joe and wanted to do it right...they didn't put Always together to make money, they put it together to make a good movie...and it WORKED.
What's wrong with Hollywood? No more love for the art, just love of money.
...love of money is the root of all evil...or in this case, bad film.
Some of the landmark periods of film were the late '30s, the late '40s through the early '50s, and the late '60s through to the early '70s. There are the eras from which the remakes are being pulled. Other eras are being pulled from for inspiration , as someone pointed out, because of recognition and possibly a nostalgia of more recent vintage.
Your run of the mill actor is, admittedly, very flat and drab. Deliver line, face emotion, move through steps. Few are believable, those that are still don't inspire because of the writing. Greed motivates producers to pick lousy crews and directors. Box office sales are the bottom line, and if a person has their name on a lucrative title, they're sure to get jobs over those who might be far more talented.
Personally, I'd like to shoot some casting diretors out there. I'd like to line them right up next to a long list of producers and directors, too. Anyone involved with Pearl Harbor needs to be deep sixed, and FAST. Jerry Bruckheimer would do well to stand a bit to close to another massive avgas fireball on the set of whatever film he's shooting. Whoever stuck pompous jack@$$ Alec Baldwin in the role of humble, respected Jimmy Doolittle should be dropped from the bomb bay of a B-25 in a very large expanse of water.
I'm not an actor, myself. I got lucky with my screen time. People keep asking me when I'm going to get famous, and I tell them it'll happen when the sun supernovas, hopefully to spare the world of another lousy 'actor' with no formal training. There are many, many real actors out there with proper training and real talent who deserve a far better chance than I've had. I've seen some TERRIBLE choices just in six months of cable program filming at the rate of roughly one per month(conversely, I saw some great stuff, as well)...I think people don't realize what they're doing when they make these choices, they're just doing their job. Modern film / tv production is strictly profit driven, however, and that is probably the primary cause of what we consider all that's wrong with today's Hollywood. Money is a bigger draw than a love for the art, and this is why we're seeing far more original , fresh, and soulful productions coming out of actors, directors, and companies that aren't part of the big industrial machine.
Now, to temper all of this, truly good remakes of classic movies can come of of big-name companies, actors, and directors...the LOVE of the art has to be there. I've got two movies in mind, A Guy Named Joe and Always. This is the same movie with a different backdrop, and both work beautifully, produced more than forty years apart. In this case, Richard Dreyfuss and Steven Spielberg shared a love for a A Guy Named Joe and wanted to do it right...they didn't put Always together to make money, they put it together to make a good movie...and it WORKED.
What's wrong with Hollywood? No more love for the art, just love of money.
...love of money is the root of all evil...or in this case, bad film.