Copyright © 2005 Gavin Leo
Machiavelli Hangman
http://www.hangmanmovie.com
It truly seems that Hollywood does not want to take anymore risks
with the films that it puts out to the movie-going audience. As a
result, 90% of the films that come out to the theatres are dull
and clones of each other.
A prime example is George Lucas's Star Wars Prequels that
automatically drew in a big crowd at the box-office because Lucas
already had the following from his previous films. The fans were
going to see the films, including the latest revenge of the Sith
even though it had as bad a storyline as the previous two. It's a
win-win situation.
Comic Books: Judge Dread, Hulk, Spiderman, Ghost Rider, Batman
Begins, Superman Returns, X-men, Fantastic Four.
Remakes of popular TV: Dukes of Hazard, Starsky and Hutch,
Charlie's Angels, Pink Panther.
Books have also been a great source of material for those lazy
studios and filmmakers who simply ride on the success of recently
published books. After the tremendous success of Dan Brown's Da
Vinci Code, Hollywood jumped at the opportunity to turn it into a
movie. Ron Howard is set to direct and Tom Hanks – who seems to
get every major role in the last decade – is set to star. The
same travesty and easy-cash-in method was used for the Lord of
the Rings and the never-ending Harry Potter films. The books are
brilliant and surprising every time, but the movies are canned
repetitions of one another and audiences still buy into it.
Or how about the remakes of the classics? King Kong who now looks
more like Mighty Joe Young. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
with a Willy Wonka who looks more like Michael Jackson.
Soon, Hollywood will run out of material to remake or adapt and
it may have to take the same route as TV and put out reality
films. The fan base for it is already growing, shown by the
tremendous success of documentaries like Super Size me, or
Michael Moore's controversial Farenheit/911.
There are still films out there that do cinema justice like Crash
or Machiavelli Hangman,
but the rest of them are setting Hollywood up for its demise. It's
time to bring back the young filmmakers. It's time to bring back
fresh ideas!
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Gavin Leo is a movie reviewer. And, he
wants you to know about the upcoming,
original, independent film called the
"Machiavelli Hangman".
http://www.hangmanmovie.com