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Subject: Re: Movie Snobs - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 8-Jul-84 20:05:00 EDT
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uok!dwhitney    Jul  8 19:05:00 1984



You think movies are supposed to be literature.  Wonderful.  Pick you favorite
piece of literature (Paradise Lost, or maybe a Shakespearian play.)  Give it
a great big budget with your favorite studio, release it in the summer to give
it plenty of exposure, and I can tell you how many people will see it. 
Five.  The Director, The Producer, The Writer, The Studio President, and the
Star.  They will gather to pat each other on the back on the fine piece of
literature they have made while the film moans like a beached whale at the
box office because no one pays to see it.  When push comes to shove, like it
or not, the only movies that make money are entertainment movies, not 
political-social ones. (Thats why The Day After was on ABC and not released
through the theaters, don't you suppose?  Would there have been an audience
for it at $5.00 a ticket??  Right. Everyone who believes that stand on their
head.)

I still stand behind my point.  Individuals dont need Hollywood directors
and producers telling them how to live, and the purpose of movies is to
entertain.  Somehow, I get this silly feeling I best know how to run my
own life.  Maybe that's not a popular position, and maybe I am totally
incorrect in my assumption, but I feel most people would agree with me.

Look at the receipts of the box office winners so far this summer.  Which
are making money, and which arent.  Which arent even being made, because
the studios know there is not an audience for them. (No, seven people does
not constitute an audience.)

Oh, well, I have belabored the point enough.  I dont expect to change 
anyones mind, I just felt it necessary to reinforce my position.  The
successful films will always be entertainment-oriented ones, like it or not.

David Whitney
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