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11/14/08
The best thing about Twilight is that Summit is a tiny company who acquired the rights from Paramount, who had been sitting on it and afraid to make it. Those guys at Summit have balls and are willing to let women be smart. They're really going to shake up the industry. I hope anyway.
Sadly, it's the money and marketing people who are screwing up Hollywood. I know this the hard way.
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Speculation is harder. Studios and execs want their products to succeed, want them to be good. But they're too close to know if it is good or not. They've been pressured into giving notes and have to stand by them, whether they work out or not, and they're usually friends with everyone involved in the production. It sucks to say those people are out of work, so they believe it's good. And the numbers don't necessarily bear that out. So they come up with theories (outside, we can recognize them as "superstitions") on what makes something good - tangible things they can look at whether they're too close or not and say "that counts." And they're usually wrong, but without a fallback, they won't give it up. Like A List stars. They're convinced that an A List star will open a movie, and won't make a movie with unknowns, even though it's been proven again and again that it's simply not true. A good actor will make a movie, and there is some overlap, but it's not a complete formula. And they're convinced a woman won't open a movie, but without being able to say "it's not that a woman won't open a movie, it's not not having a monkey won't open a movie," they won't give up the formula they have.
This applies to so much. The discussion a couple weeks ago about the news not showing news anymore is like this. It's not that people want the tabloid news instead of the real stuff and are rewarding the networks with ratings, it's that the networks decided that's what we want and refuse to revisit that decision, no matter how much money it costs them in ad dollars. And it is costing them, and they keep driving themselves down the spiral.
/end lecture
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Also, Sanctuary for All has a couple of kick-ass female main characters if you're into sci-fi.
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@63words: How cool is that chick? She inspired me to work out for like... a month or something astronomical.
@SpasticFurchild: Me too. Though I really enjoyed the original.
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Which is awesome. Hopefully the audience will be mixed enough that people can't pigeonhole it as a genre film.
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Like every teen/20-something I know (excluding myself).
That will suck. They deserve the props.
(woop for St Helens!!)
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Sad sidenote - there has NEVER been a female cinematographer to be nominated for an Academy Award.
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How can any female character be as helpless and passive as her?
Being an old fashioned libber, and living in a post-Buffy world, this amazes me.
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