Quite soulless11/28/2023 For me, that may be part of why I do this, but spending many millions of dollars on a film has to be about more than that – it’s communication – so my experience is merely one spoke on that wheel. Creating spectacle films that are innovative, humane, and thoughtful is what excites me about this job.īut, to be fair, at least from Foster’s quotes, she seems to see film-making as something that’s primarily about her own personal growth. And some of us are doing our best to move in that direction. But there are also quite a few exceptions.įor cinema to survive I believe spectacle films NEED to have a vision and heart they traditionally haven’t. I say not without basis because most studio franchise films are quite soulless – and that is a real danger to the future of movies. Her belief system is pretty common and isn’t totally without basis. I think Foster looks at film in an old-fashioned way where spectacle film can’t be thought-provoking. Just like let’s say Nolan hates them and refuses to make them, James Gunn loves them, and not only that he makes, them…he makes them GOOD!. Yes, it’s his job but it’s also his passion. You can be cynic and say that he’s just defending this genre of movies, because he makes them is not enough. Incoming James Gunn, and his in fan-boy reasoning (which i love). Studios making bad content in order to appeal to the masses and shareholders is like fracking – you get the best return right now but you wreck the earth,” she said in an interview with Radio Times. “Going to the movies has become like a theme park. She’s just the latest in the long line of filmmakers and artists in Hollywood that openly mocked and ridiculed the superheroes movies (the previous being Christopher Nolan, Clint Eastwood, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gibson, David Cronenberg) but the first to compare the whole genre to fracking. Well she recently got herself in a bit of messy situation, after she openly criticized the superhero movies and compared them to fracking. Double Academy Award winner, former child star – turned acclaimed director.
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