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MONDAY MOTIVATION!: The Art Of Breaking The Rules · Indie Film Hustle® - A Filmmaking Podcast

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  I think that's the problem. I think that there is a kind of horrible
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  epidemic facing films in today's world, which are passable films, safe films,
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  films that don't push the envelope whatsoever. Only the biggest, baddest directors that
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  have some sort of pull that can kind of do it within the system and
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  still make some sort of creative movement forward. But most of the stuff coming
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  out of Hollywood is safe because it's a business and they don't they're not interested
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  in breaking the rules, not like they did in the seventies and the eighties
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  when they had no other choice to do it. So it's fallen on the
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  independent filmmaker to take the medium forward, to push things forward and get to
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  that place. But that's how you move the medium forward, that's how you
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  set yourself apart from everybody else. And you have to kind of do that
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  in order to kind of poke your head out of the crowd and stand apart
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  from everybody else who's doing the same thing you're doing. Well. Just so
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  you understand, back in the day Hollywood, when they would light a scene,
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  it was perfect. The actors were all looking perfect. Back in the
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  forties and the fifties and the thirty of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Everybody
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  looked gorgeous, but it looked so unreal it looked so non realistic. They're
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  like, well, where's that light coming from that makes her look so beautiful?
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  There was no motivation. And slowly during the sixties, specifically the sixties
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  and the seventies, cinematographers and directors started to change that, change that dynamic.
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  They started breaking the rules, and then all of a sudden, all
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  of this new stuff started coming out, all these new images pushing the medium
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  forward in one way, shape or form. When you make your movie,
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  you've got to break those rules. So now I've been talking a lot about
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  breaking the rules and taking risks and all this kind of stuff. Well,
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  there is a trade off, guys. If you've got to if you're an
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  independent filmmaker and you got a quarter of a million dollars, you might be
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  able to take some risks, but you can't go all out because you're risking.
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  It's called a risk for a reason. If you're a filmmaker in the
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  studio system and you want to take a risk, knock yourself out. If
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  you're working with someone else's money and they're willing to go along that ride with
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  you. Great, but as independent filmmakers, the more risks you take,
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  the lower the budget should be, because that's the only way you're going to
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  be able to take those risks comfortably. That's the only way. No one's
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  going to try to stop you from taking those risks.