Why a lot of young filmmakers make pretentious films
"The young are taught that Hollywood and art are antithetical. The novice, therefore, wanting to be recognized as an artist, falls into the trap of writing a screenplay not for what it is, but for what it's not. He avoids closure, active characters, chronology, and causality to avoid the taint of commercialism. As a result, pretentiousness poisons his work."
- Robert McKee, in Story
Stay tuned for one of my next entries. I'm still typing up a long excerpt from the same chapter of McKee's book that talks more about this, what he calls "the politics of story design." I think he gives a valuable and sobering insight on the pitfalls a lot of aspiring filmmakers (like myself) make and are bound to keep making.
And that is my "what I'm learning at film school" moment of the day. :P
- Robert McKee, in Story
Stay tuned for one of my next entries. I'm still typing up a long excerpt from the same chapter of McKee's book that talks more about this, what he calls "the politics of story design." I think he gives a valuable and sobering insight on the pitfalls a lot of aspiring filmmakers (like myself) make and are bound to keep making.
And that is my "what I'm learning at film school" moment of the day. :P