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Letterboxd stats are great. Apparently, I spend an average of 2.7 hours per day watching films. For an average of 11.8 films per week. (Some of these are shorts though.)
For reference, the average viewer in the UK watches 4.5 hours of audio-visual entertainment per day. That's TV, YouTube, TikTok, all of it. I'm sure the figures will be similar in other countries.
I don't watch any of that. So I'm well below the national average for overall screen-time even though I watch near enough two films per day. I mention this because someone always says 'But how?' whenever someone mentions such a high figure. And the answer is: I just prioritise films over everything else I might be watching instead of them.
Oh, sorry. I somehow missed that you'd already said that it was stolen... Yeah, I don't think anyone knows who said it originally. But someone must've quite a long time ago.
Ironically, the end part of the quote is basically stolen: 'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' Usually attributed to Picasso, although I think I read there's no evidence he ever said it.
I may be wrong, but doesn't the MPA work in a similar way to the BBFC? So if Disney (or any other distributor) submits a film to them, the MPA tells them 'Well, that's a PG in its current form. If you make this cut and that cut, we could reduce it to a G.' And then Disney decides if it wants to cut the film or not.
So isn't it Disney that has given up on the G?
Or is that the MPA has just basically said 'almost nothing is a G any more, because we think parents should decide what's right for their children / don't want to take the flak from parents who disagree'?
"Tarkovsky is more innocent than me. In his films, rain purifies people. In mine, it just makes mud."
- Béla Tarr
No. I don't agree.
I'd agree that it's up to <i>individuals</i> to judge films for themselves. But the idea that a general audience reaction to a film is any gauge of its quality is faintly absurd to me. 'This film is popular, therefore it's good' is obvious nonsense. You have no idea who is in that audience. All a film's popularity with a general audience tells us is that it's popular with a general audience.
In all areas of life, I trust the opinions of people who know more over people who know less. This may mean professional film critics (as long as their sensibility somewhat matches my own), it may be amateur critics or people on film forums. But I'd never trust the 'wisdom of crowds' or popular taste or box office or any of those related concepts. I care more about critics than I care about what Joe Schmoe thinks. Joe Schmoe has <i>terrible</i> taste.
Sorry.
Nah. I doubt it. It's not American. 'Oh we've had a hit, we better make another one to cash in' is not a particularly strong impulse in European cinema. Not that it doesn't happen. But it doesn't happen nearly as much.
Coralie Fargeat has already turned down Hollywood projects. She's not super commercially-minded. And she set up her own production company for <i>The Substance</i> so that she could retain complete creative control. It'll only happen if she wants it to happen. And I suspect she is too French to make an unnecessary sequel. But you never know.
I'll celebrate with a drink and a sing-song: <url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bnnwYYrI7U</url>
OK, that made me laugh.
Sorrrrrry.
Which bit?
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