INDIE VS HOLLY

[soulfilms]

be honest...

if someone from a major production company offered you a chance to do a big budget...tell me...no convince me that you wouldn't accept??

whatever happened to the subculture of underground films?

[FranMc]

Why wouldn't I accept?

And what happened to the underground? Well, mythology aside, it got bought up like everything else in the counter-culture.

[eddie]

Circus of the Damned, coming early next year.

If you think underground filmakers have disapeared then you arent one. You need to get out more.

[FranMc]

I think you mean I need to get under more. And obviously if I were an Underground filmmaker I wouldn't claim I had disappeared...hmm.

Anyway, madness aside, the filmmakers are most definitely still there, but I doubt very much they are making anything that is intrinsically unique and completely different from what is being produced in the independent sector.

[eddie]

OK Frank, but that wasnt directed at you.

Cant say I really know what the difference between UNDERGROUND and INDY is, except that I suspect INDEPENDANT film makers get into more debt, and so need to create more commercial work. Whereas my idea of UNDERGROUND are people who make whatever the hell they want to. No answerability.
Its a distinction, and good enough.
And if that is the case then I expect the difference between the two types of film (INDY, UNDERGROUND) is enormous.
(god, this sounds like arguing the difference between garage soul, and garage dance, trance and jazz-beebop-fusion )

[Genesius]

Take the money and run, you can always release the director's cut later.

Failing that, you can bemoan the lack of creativity in Hollywood EVERY time you do an interview.

[Matt J Heaton]

I'd accept in a heartbeat.

My ultimate goal is to do Hollywood movies. Not the cheesy, popcorn yype, the more interesting films.

[miker]

What if you are an independant underground film-maker based in Hollywood?

Deeds, not words. Films, not geographic excuses please.

Eddie: it's November. What's happened to that VHS you promised me ;-) [yep, I've been busy too which is why I haven't been hassling ppl]

[eddie]

sorry miker, I will get it to you. Ive just been up to my ears in stuff lately, what with buying a house and decorating and editing. All the while work takes up over 10 precious hours of the day.
No excuses..... ;-(

Ill get it to you as soon as I can...

Cheers

[Gwailofilms]

Fuck yes, I'd go to Hollywood!

I make films because I love making them; I'm never happier than when I'm making a film.

And who wouldn't like to make a comfortable living doing what they love?

People can argue independent vs. Hollywood all they like, but the meat & potatoes of it is: if you can't afford to eat, you can't afford to make films and then you're doubly fucked, aren't you?



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