Which parts of the world of cinema frustrate you the most? Are there any particular events, projects, films or general tragedies that occurred sometime in the past that make you pissed when you think about them? Any injustices that you'll never truly be able to cope with?
I just thought that it might be quite interesting to share those things with eachother here in this thread.
Here's the main reason why I made this thread:
The career of Orson Welles
The fact that one of the greatest cinematic geniuses of all time got completely destroyed by the Hollywood studio system after his first film, Citizen Kane, and continuously lost control over his own projects again and again, is something that bothers me since the day I had knowledge of it.
Later in his career, he did make a few films over which he had complete control again (F For Fake for instance), but there are way too few of them because of Welles' constant quest for money to finance his projects that lead to many of them never getting finished or released.
I still love films like The Lady From Shanghai of course, despite the intervention of the studios, and Touch of Evil was largely restored according to Welles' vision, but unfortunately we can only guess what kind of full-blown masterpieces Welles would've produced if he had had final cut over all his films and enough financial resources to realize his true cinematic ideas and vision...
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I have way more frustrations of course, but I'll withhold for a while as I'm curious to read the main frustrations from some other Mofos first!
I just thought that it might be quite interesting to share those things with eachother here in this thread.
Here's the main reason why I made this thread:
The career of Orson Welles
The fact that one of the greatest cinematic geniuses of all time got completely destroyed by the Hollywood studio system after his first film, Citizen Kane, and continuously lost control over his own projects again and again, is something that bothers me since the day I had knowledge of it.
Later in his career, he did make a few films over which he had complete control again (F For Fake for instance), but there are way too few of them because of Welles' constant quest for money to finance his projects that lead to many of them never getting finished or released.
I still love films like The Lady From Shanghai of course, despite the intervention of the studios, and Touch of Evil was largely restored according to Welles' vision, but unfortunately we can only guess what kind of full-blown masterpieces Welles would've produced if he had had final cut over all his films and enough financial resources to realize his true cinematic ideas and vision...
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I have way more frustrations of course, but I'll withhold for a while as I'm curious to read the main frustrations from some other Mofos first!
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Cobpyth's Movie Log ~ 2019
Cobpyth's Movie Log ~ 2019