Blockbusters would not have today's blockbuster directors without independent film. Some would argue that independent and blockbuster films co-exist in a way to portray form versus effects. Directors who merge both like Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and George Lucas founded blockbuster films by starting with independent films outside of the system with distinct visions, attracting younger audiences. In today’s Hollywood system, it’s quite possible for an independent film to be purchased or financed by a large studio and distributed worldwide.
Independent and blockbuster films co-exist since one can become the other and both can be showed simultaneously in American theaters while award winning blockbuster films have often started as independent. Dark dramas like “Precious” directed by Lee Daniels, Counterculture films like “Easy Rider” by Dennis Hopper and teen comedy-drama “Election” by Alexander Payne are all examples of independent films picked up by large studios becoming blockbuster hits. Originally independent film signified films made outside of the studio system, and in some ways still does, but what has happened is that one helps the other and both cohabitant many theaters across America.
“An independent film is any movie that uncompromisingly expresses a unique, personal vision.” (Grove, …show more content…
Where’s blockbuster dramas like “The Great Gatsby (2015)” relied on visual effects and stimuli to market and sell movie; it failed at the form of compelling storyline. Like Tarantino, movies such as “Pulp Fiction” and “American Beauty” directed by Sam Mendes have a wonderful balance of storytelling and visual effects that add to the plot instead of distract from lack of. Where’s a studio dramas are marketed based on big effects and elaborate costumes and setting, independent films at it’s core, has a fascinating and distinct
Independent and blockbuster films co-exist since one can become the other and both can be showed simultaneously in American theaters while award winning blockbuster films have often started as independent. Dark dramas like “Precious” directed by Lee Daniels, Counterculture films like “Easy Rider” by Dennis Hopper and teen comedy-drama “Election” by Alexander Payne are all examples of independent films picked up by large studios becoming blockbuster hits. Originally independent film signified films made outside of the studio system, and in some ways still does, but what has happened is that one helps the other and both cohabitant many theaters across America.
“An independent film is any movie that uncompromisingly expresses a unique, personal vision.” (Grove, …show more content…
Where’s blockbuster dramas like “The Great Gatsby (2015)” relied on visual effects and stimuli to market and sell movie; it failed at the form of compelling storyline. Like Tarantino, movies such as “Pulp Fiction” and “American Beauty” directed by Sam Mendes have a wonderful balance of storytelling and visual effects that add to the plot instead of distract from lack of. Where’s a studio dramas are marketed based on big effects and elaborate costumes and setting, independent films at it’s core, has a fascinating and distinct