Why a lot of young filmmakers make pretentious films

[guitarchild]

"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

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[peskyweed]

i will not argue with mckee, but being a potentially pretentious filmmaker, my two cents are jumping up and down, screaming it is also because of fear of telling the story that leaves imprints of your soul bare to the world, that makes an open, ambiguous story, a little more affordable. we are yet amateurs.