Monday, April 18, 2011

"This Film Is Not Yet Rated"

Attention any and all aspiring film makers looking to break through in the industry, remember that film is exactly that, an industry. Countless kindred spirits break out onto broken streets looking to make it big in LA or New York or wherever their weary feet may want to take them, but many forget that one of the most important and necessary features for making it in the film industry is to be a savvy business person. As exquisitely accounted for in the documentary "This Film is Not Yet Rated" there is a vast assortment of suit wearing, card carrying, tycoons of the film industry that care not for any artistic vision or lofty dreams coming to life on screen, there is only the profit motive which drives them to establish each and every 35mm frame to produce the every dollar it can squeeze in. The Motion Picture Association of America has graced its presence in the industry of film since 1922 and since then it has been driven by the prospect of the dollar for each of its members. And I'll give them due credit, because on their backs the money poured in to make film what it is today, but that's not to say I only give credit for the positive features of film today, because I equally blame them for the negative aspects of film today. You know the big budget summer block buster’s which are completely absent of any cultural or historical influence from the true essence of film and instead have been breed from the dark abyss of Dr. Frankenstein’s layer. The MPAA, an institution that you can’t live without, yet can’t stand to live with…

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