"Films and radio no longer need to present themselves as art. The truth that they are nothing but business is used as an ideologue to legitimize the trash they intentionally produce." p.53
This quote stood out to me immediately when I read this chapter. I could think of countless movies that fit the description in this quote, whether we're talking superhero trilogies or romantic comedies, there are too many 'films' that fit that cookie-cutter structure. That's not to say I don't enjoy a live-action sequence of Spiderman swinging through the burrows of NYC, or a computer-generated fight scene between a giant gorilla and a mutated dinosaur. We live for 'films' like this, but I also feel like we have a kind of technological hubris. I don't know if everyone feels this way, but half the fun of these CGI movies is marveling at how far technology has come in such a short period of time. For god sake, we've made eleven Spiderman movies, featured him in three more, and we've got another one on the way. I'm gonna be real here, I loved every single one of them, I wish they made more, and I hope they keep making them till I'm old and forgetful just so I can watch them all over again. Just because you could probably guess what's going to happen at every single plot point in the movie doesn't mean you can't enjoy it. I don't think that qualifies a film to be labeled as not art, I feel like it's a completely different art form than your average independent film. The art of these movies is being able to admire technology and the difficulty of producing such a film. It takes digital artists years to create the imagery that we see in superhero movies, just because it's computed generated doesn't mean it's easy. It also takes hundreds of millions of dollars to produce, so the only people that are able to produce such a film are big companies. There are definitely some exceptions to this quote like the films I talked about which was basically only spiderman, but a majority of the flicks that come out nowadays fit that cookie cutter.
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