Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Whats wrong with the british film industry?

It seems to me that people are unable to think of films to make or stories to write for the big screen, Everything seems to be a remake of a Classic, pretty much for the music industry too. Are the younger generation unable to come up with their own ideas?
Also many films nowadays seem to represent strong stereotypes on the younger generation which not only discriminates us but can  have a bad influence on kids as films are very graphic and show what younger generations can be influenced into such as sex, drugs, and the harsh reality of murder and life on the streets. Yet again emphasising the lack of film making and ideas as they have resulted in using real world problems as films instead of the good old imagination, for films such as avatar and recently made million pound blockbusters.
The UK Film Council was set up in 2000 with a brief to "create a self-sustaining UK film industry". Over the past decade, it has ploughed £160m of Lottery money into more than 900 productions (some good, some awful). It has also funded the British Film Institute and Skillset, which furnishes the industry with a steady supply of trained technicians. Veteran producer David Puttnam has hailed it as the strategic glue that binds a disparate sprawl of auteurs, craftspeople, circus barkers and market traders and its abolition sparked fierce criticism, both here (where 50 big-name actors signed a letter of protest) and in the US (where Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg waded into the fray).

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