The Edge of Hollywood Cinema

We watched the documentary about the independent movie makers in Hollywood after the end of the Classical Hollywood Cinema. Like what have written on my previous blog post, clickhere! the reign of the Classical Hollywood style diminished at the start of the 1960's, though some of the films were surviving, Sound of Music and Dr. Zhivago to name a few. One of the reasons why the classical Hollywood came to an end is because of television shows.

 

Back to the documentary, it showed directors that made noise in Hollywood and stick to their style. One of them is Spike Lee. He's one of the renowned African-American directors in his time. He showcased movies that were about the culture of the African-American living in the United States. He said that most of the movies in his time, they don't really give African-American actors/actresses the lead roles in movies. But he made an all African-American films. 

The documentary also featured women directors and some directors that really did not care about the producers. They really just want to create films. I also heard in the show that if you're not a professional film maker, your film budget is less than 5 million dollars. 

Personally, I like the independent movies more than the movies produced by behemoth film firms because I know that the directors have more creative control and you can see that creativity of the directors and this documentary enlightened me more about them and it made me appreciate them more.