...for
this ardent viewer of cult and genre films...well, sometimes it almost seems that he's seen it all. Heck, are there
really any more original ideas, out there?? It's gotten to the point where this devoted auteur of oddball cinema can spot a concept film, coming from miles away. It's no wonder, one cannot help but think that all of the great core concepts have been used up, and all that there's left, is a
melding of concepts
....'this', crossed with
'that', with a smidgen of 'this, over here'. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I
truly wish that I was a fly on the wall, in one of those darkened studio executive board rooms, watching some young and enthusiastic writer, wildly acting out a concept, in front of a gaggle of stiff-suited, stogie-puffing, poker-faced executives...trying to convince them to invest their interest and monetary resources, in what the writers believe is a great idea for a movie (...and to be quite honest, being an aspiring writer myself, I would genuinely want to be on the writer's end of this scenario, as for the most part, they're on the deckplate level, like all of us, and as such, they seem to have a finger on the pulse of what audiences would want to see; most studio execs, given their opportunity to put in
their two cents worth, idea-wise, seem driven foremost by money, and as such,
think that they know what movie watchers want...coupled with what they believe will bring in the big bank...and for the most part, time and time again,
both motivations fail to mesh as irreadily as their mis-matched concepts, and in the end, more than often, they tend to be wrong)...
