British cinema - Exploratory surgery

First of all I'd recommend reading this. Wouldn't recommend him as a human being on the other hand, but @tvanalogue makes some very valid points about British cinema and where it's greatest problems lie. Strangely though he doesn't mention Danny Fackin Dyer?

https://tvanalogue.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/the-futures-bright-the-futures-foreign/

I agree with @tvanalogue to a large extent. Except with reagards to there being a lack of talent. I think we're too conservative a nation to approve the kind of unique, innovative ideas that production companies in say Japan and France might. So the talent gets swept under the rug. My main gripe though is the teaching. I studied film and can tell you first hand that they in no way encourage you to be ambitious, leftfield or to challenge cinema ideals. It's all archetypal 'genre' shit where they are forever reminding you how you aren't being trained for an industry and how god damn impossible it is to get in anyway! Might as well get the applications in at Asda kids. So its no wonder the students are just churning out rehashes of current genre favourite. Minimal conceptual thought and maximum input of the standardised genre conventions that have been drummed into them. Keep their grades high and lecturers happy. Coffee quoffing saboteurs in my eyes who need to realise they are teaching an art not a mathematical equation. Art is fuelled by creation, not uniform.

For me it's the foundation and structure that's the problem not the blueprints.



- Posted angrily by @dasmulk using BlogPress from my iPhone rather than my laptop which is sat right by the bed. Idiot.

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