Seriously...
The Sundance kids would hate it immensely, all the major critics would decry the style, and NASHVILLE would become a "forgotten classic".
Plus, try to create a modern trailer for it. Just try.
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It must have worked pretty well when it came out in thatjust about every critic loved it. It did get universally great reviews
shareIt was called Magnolia, and it's widely considered a classic now.
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Just like Crash and Babel, both of which borrowed the interweaving plot style, right? Those films were derided, right
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Yeah, they're both pretty mediocre but still acclaimed.
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Crash and Babel were self-important bores n the Spielberg tradition of press-the-button-I-want-you-to-feel tradition.
Nashville and Magnolia make you feel disoriented and lost, and are absolutely brilliant.
A good example to prove that "Nashville" would not function in today's superficial audience market is the movie Bobby. It was an excellent film that was labeled as being pretentious and unsure of itself. Seeing what occured with Bobby furthers my belief that Nashville would never survive with today's moviegoers.
shareI'm not sure about that - Prairie Home Companion was well-received, and it was rambling and could easily be called incoherent. No central plot, stylistically aberrant, etc. It's not half the film Nashville is, but it still shows an 85% "fresh" rating at rottentomatoes, and it came out in '06.
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Perhaps. I love many films that gets those accusations aimed at them by the way. For example I LOVE Youth Without Youth.
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If this film was released today I think it would still garner the same praise it did and has been all this time. Bobby was panned by critics because it sucked and it WAS pretentious and terribly done. Nashville gives you insight into the lives of about 20 something people without over doing or under doing it, Bobby gave you half ass background stories and a weak narrative that depended on Bobby's death to tie the whole thing together. Nashville didn't depend on its death, it could have ended before that and still been a fantastic film.
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There is no way a film like "Nashville" would have even been considered being made in the '10s. Films like this have no hope in the studio system or even the indie scene anymore. It's a sad but true fact. I would even go as far as saying that Altman's "Short Cuts" would have never gotten off the ground. The last great, truly unique, mosaic studio picture was Anderson's "Magnolia". Movies like this just wont be made anymore. Sure "Crash" could be a counter argument, but compared to "Nashville", "Magnolia" and "Short Cuts", it's an extremely straightforward picture.
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