US motion pictures dominate the world market
- re: cultural imperialism
- 80-90% of box office revenues in Continental Europe
- European film has 1% of the audience of a Hollywood film
Differences reflective of the training
- US film schools "train" rather than "educate"
European films
- slower in pace
- ideas, philosophical comments & nuanced relationships
American films
- made as commodities intended to attract large audiences
- writers use simplistic & unrealistic recipes
- technologically advanced but “[t]he perfect look usually disguises artistic emptiness”
- technology itself substitutes as art- “one finds a world designed to divert - entertain at the lowest common denominator”
- “one leaves credibility at the box office”
Conclusion:
Movies are commodities designed for the marketThey sell if they entertain
To entertain is the deal with formula plots and technology
The movie world and the real world have little in common
Ideas and substance have no place in Hollywood movies