I’m Trying to Make a “Movie,” Not a FILM!
I’m Trying to Make a “Movie,” Not a FILM!
That’s one of the funniest lines Eddie Murphy uttered in BOWFINGER. The case he was trying to make to his agent was that He acknowledged his role as an action hero movie star. He didn’t consider himself an “actor” and wasn’t into cerebral parts. He wanted to good lines, like ” I’ll be back.” or “Yippe-ki-yay, mutherfucka!”
Broken Hearts Club is a movie — not a film. Truth is, I don’t make films. I make popcorn movies that make you laugh, cry, and even think, but never “explore the human internal dichotomy of need versus desire and the mental genuflection to the Universe in the foreshadowing of the decline of civilization by the Internet.”
No. Not this dood.
I write what I write. I accept my place in this world …and I love my place! The same things are available to me as are available to those great individuals who take on causes and wield them like a standard blowing in the wind. Documentaries are hot. Biopics are hot. History is hot. But I don’t write those things. I write for the audience to escape. If they happen to take a few moments over coffee to think about the “movie” they’ve just seen, awesome. But my gig ends at the close of the final credits. that’s my job as a filmmaker. Not to change the world, but to affect the audience…2 hours at a time.
And I love it!!
I agree with Sicilian Princess, and your words are so true, I am the same way stories lead to the movies we make..to me film is just one of the many mediums I can use, its not my story. We need escapes, and why not the movies that encapsulate the soul to be someone, somewhere we aren’t. When people see what they aren’t and what they can be that is the change the world needs.
You’re missing a key point. Getting the audience to “escape” is helping to change the world. We all need down time and time to just laugh and escape, otherwise we woudn’t survive. So think of your films as meditation for the soul. And that my dear, will help to also change the planet!!!