Reference guides for Film and TV

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

I staunchly believe that the public only usually knows what it doesn't want, but doesn't know what it wants until it's seen it.

Maybe...but getting money for a movie or documentary is only availible if you sell the producer a product that they think the crowd wanna watch.

Both true. It's looks like the dog that eats his own tail here...

Anyway, some producers seem to be sensible to the Jim's statement and to the directors attempts to show something of previously unseen, if not, we'd always see the same movies with just little adjustments, while, spotted in the history of the cinema, we have seen several movies that visually got in the public important cultural shocks, and that after them the cinema was not the same anymore: The Killing (yes, a flop, but very good), 2001 a space odissey, Clockwork orange, Barry Lindon, Full metal jacket... Oops! Sorry, all by Stanley Kubrick... :wink:

Anyway again, about our period (Roman), even if almost totally wrong, Gladiator has been a visual turning point for the public and the producers too. We have seen the effects (even if always wrong) in King Arthur, Alexander and Rome...

Valete,