Having just watched another predictable movie, so predictable I skipped chunks of it, I fail to understand why Hollywood churns out such bad story-lines. In the first instance they seem to think their audiences, which are worldwide, will be disinterested if there isn’t an American in the movie. Really?
Then you have the monotonous plots of handsome men and women finding time to kiss in tragedy, the hero and heroine of myth. Well that’s alright, it’s an old story and it works well but do they all have to be white and blond? What’s wrong with a black hero and white heroine kissing? Or two heroines. Are modern stories to be racist?
The anti-hero has to be in conflict all the time, the best friend is the one who dies, the enemy has to be ugly or better still, alien and the alien has to be ugly. Who would have thought aesthetics matters more in a story than the plot?
The upshot of this is that stories that have potential are wasted, and audiences are short-changed. And I realise the problem. The directors and editors do not share the deep imaginations of the writers. It’s about time writers started to make their own movies, the art of what is possible in front of the camera is fast being overtaken buy what is permissible.
New technologies should bring with them fresh film-making.
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