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Francis Ford Coppola Sees Cinema World Falling Apart - The Gear Page
Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The cinema as we know it is falling apart, says Francis Ford Coppola.
Its a period of incredible change, says the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now. We used to think of six, seven big film companies.
Every one of them is under great stress now.
Probably two or three will go out of business and the others will just make certain kind of films like Harry Potter -- basically trying to make Star Wars over and over again, because its a business.
Coppola, 70, sporting a dark suit, is being interviewed in the Lebanese capital Beirut, where his latest movie Tetro opened the Beirut Film Festival after premiering at the Cannes Film Festival this year.
Cinema is losing the publics interest, says Coppola, because there is so much it has to compete with to get peoples time.
The profusion of leisure activities;
The availability of movies on copied DVD and on the Internet;
And news becoming entertainment are reshaping the industry, he says.
Companies have combined businesses as customers turn to cheap downloads rather than visit shops or movie theaters.
I think the cinema is going to live off into something more related to a live performance in which the filmmaker is there, like the conductor of an opera used to be, Coppola says.
Cinema can be interactive, every night it can be a little different.
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That and the fact that it costs about $50 to go see a movie when all is said and done and the additionalfact that 90% of the movies coming out now aren't worth a plug nickel.
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Coppola is right, I think.
The overall quality of movies has been declining over the past years.
Truly great movies are getting fewer and farther between and there are more and more remakes, reimaginings, or just plain filler than there used to be.
IMO, there are also a lot less big name, reknowned directors than there used to be.
Where are the Coppola's and Kubrick's and Leone's and Spielberg's of today?
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Movies today are a lot like the modern music no soul .
Seems like the ideas for good movies are long gone .
I like watching a lot of the classic movies now .
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Coppola is correct, as far as America is concerned.
France? Another matter entirely.
Laurent Cantet is the first director in a long time to recall the great filmmakers who toiled to make cinema for adults.
He just won the Palm d"or at Cannes for CLASSROOM, but he really shines in three previous films:
HUMAN RESOURCES
TIME OUT
HEADING SOUTH
This is intelligent cinema for grownups.
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We need more outside-of-Hollywood movie makers.
Films like Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, District 9, these are the kinds of films that need to be made.
If Hollywood looked for originality, instead of yet another Scooby Doo movie, people WOULD be interested in going to the cinema.
Here's a few hints.
STOP making films with Nicholas Cage and Ben Affleck and Tom Cruise.
STOP making films with Angelina Jolie and Halle Berry and Jennifer Lopez.
STOP making films directed by Michael Bay and Joel Schumacher and Tim Burton.
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If godfather was released today it would make less money than transformers.
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If godfather was released today Vin Diesel would be the star and all the killings would involve seventeen car crashes and two train derailments.
For EACH killing.
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There's still some good one's being made.
A lot of em are foreign.
admittedly you have to wade thru a sea of bad ones.
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Quote: : If godfather was released today Vin Diesel would be the star and all the killings would involve seventeen car crashes and two train derailments.
For EACH killing.
Since everyone has a subwoofer Hollywood needs to have noise coming out them
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IMHO the movie business forgot some time ago that they are in the entertainment business ....
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I feel like christopher nolan is hollywood's last great (dark) hope with dark night.
Totally surpassing the standards of all its contemporaries and competitors.
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He's been saying this for 20 years.
Back then he was noting that film has been around for 10 years and there's no inspiration left.
He was comparing to the Italian renaissance lasting for, what, 20 years?
I think he was trying to say that he last lost all inspiration.
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There is still some decent stuff out there, just nothing by Michael Bay
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