Yesterday, we figured out that a conventional movie was a Hollywood movie : a kind of movie with some stereotypes, huge actors and, generally, a known story and a known way to tell it. Conditioning the viewer to see everything like this don’t help him to open his mind to another kind of cinema. However, this situation can hardly change, because the American cinema takes so much place on the market that other countries have difficulty to promote their films worldwide.
Now that we’ve talk about Hollywood cinema and its stereotypical way of making movies (by following a winning formula in a desire of making money and entertain), let me ask you some questions :
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Why is a movie obligated to follow a storyline?
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Why does a movie needs to be efficient and entertaining?
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Why should we make movies always in the same way?
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Why is a fast rhythm considered like entertaining, and a slow rhythm, boring?
There are movies that are really slow, with almost no storyline, no entertainment, but they can be considered as captivating and great.
Why? Because they bring up original ideas and they try to find different ways to tell it.
A movie can be made to question people, to express a reflexion, to experiment techniques, etc. Thus, a movie isn’t entertainment anymore. It becomes art.