so this movie "TBT" is a movie directed by a brilliant Indian director...who, back in the day used to be and still is a very good ad film maker...who gets bitten by the film bug...so off he goes and makes a lovely story based in some hill station and city and so forth....(this blog is not about the movie!!)
ok so the story goes that i had worked on the film executing some seriously weird visual fx on this film a year back (2005) and delivered the film vfx+DI very successfully around that time...but the film went through some snags with some "people" and these people with whom lies some level of "power" decided to change around some stuff so that the edit gets a little more "digestible"....now the preview i saw today had sound+great looking visual and privacy....but the preview i had seen with the director a year back had work in progress visual and no sound...the director was kind enough to narrate the story to us scene by scene....dialogue by dialogue....and yet even though we had these obvious distractions.....i personally found the first edit , much more fresh...edgy....intelligent and satisfying.Now the new edit seems nice too...yet the edge...the discomfort and certain thought provoking visuals which in its entirety felt really good...have been brutally canned from the film.
Now i would like to point out that i felt the reason this re-edit was done was probably a very calculated move by the people at power which would probably make great business sense but then the question is .....why does practicality always have to take priority over creativity?
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Yes buddy I completely agree with you but I would say more than practicality I feel buisness minds who only think about marketing their film & d'ont know shit about film-making go ahead to screw it up... I'am sure you remember the film which we outputed recently the lead actor came to change the edit after 150 prints were made... THIS IS RIDICULOUS... but thats the way it is...show buisness I say... hmmm...
Let me play devil's advocate here,well at the end of the day guys it a business,we all want to make money, if we had directors making movies exactly the way they wanted i am sure lots of those movies would not have made the money and got the public appeal they did...how about that directors have no clue about the business and only know to tell their stories, sorry but films can be killer and make money at the same time,, i think they go hand in hand. If a film needs a change to get more appeal why not? one has made the film for public appeal, a hand full of films are personal stories that maybe cannot or should not be changed for mass appeal, unless you are a Lynch or a Cronenberg who made i feel films for themselves and also because they didn't give a shit if people liked their films or not or even understood them!
I rather be a successful director with mass appeal than a struggling director making personal movies for a hand full of people.
well i admire your enthusiastic comment but the case i have described in the original post is a debut film specifically targeted towards a certin commercial kind of audience.Which means to begin with, the film was meant to be a money maker and the context of the movie was different from which it has finally become....the genre has changed..!!Now i agree with the fact that one needs to learn the logistics of film making and the commercial impact it requires to keep the producers and studio happy..but, what is an undeniable fact is that these same producers and studioss begin to play the hand of GOD and start twisting stories and sequences around according to their gut feeling and instincts!you know what level of time the director and crew spends to execute a film.the level of detail...the attention to detail...continuity and technical research done to achieve a certain credibility so the layman can at least relate with the story and hence like the movie as an overall package, is known to all of us industry people.The changes which were made in TBT were so severe that the genre changed...previously it was a nice blend of horror and a love story....now its a love story with a dark backdrop....who decides if the movie will make money or not?the producers?the studio?how many times have ideas by such people diluted the purity of a vision and questioned the integrity with which the film was made?studios remain hte same...directors bring their own flavour to a film.If the studios have a quality control system...every other movie looks the same...(which if u notice is happening in the commercial scene)!!I believe there is no connection between Lynch and making movies for himself....he has made the effort...created a movie which will be talked about for years for a reason....he wants people to watch it and interpret it...the only difference between him and a commercial director is that he is targeting a certain kind of audience who consider such comercial cinema, questioning one's intelligence.....lynch also wants everybody to see his films....and if he didnt want that...he would be making personal home videos.......your move.
If i make a film of whats inside my head people will be talking and deciphering it for years to come..he he, on a more serious note Lynch made that film because he could and he had the power to do so, are you telling me that Takashi Miike made visitor q for an audience..i don't think so, and sorry i don't want to see twisted shit like that nor do i think you do. Not all commercial films question our intelligence, and lynch makes me ask the question why did you put me through this for 2 hours?? i don't want questions at the end of a film..i want to be entertained, whatever the genre. Kurosawa, Polanski to Bergman made dark films but entertained too.Films have always been like fashion dude trends keep changing and that applies to here and abroad, and at the end of the day we the audience go and pay money to see the films, and i want to get my money's worth theater or DVD. I have enough questions about life in general why should i go for a movie that fills my head with more...sorry but i am a victim of commercialism in films, and i love it.
you got me partner...!!
now that is one justification which i too relate with...thanks for the insight...i really appreciate the thought behind the discussion....
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