Sunday, August 1, 2010

Who Makes Movies?

Here is the intro to a movie i recently watched. each line represents an individual screen shot:
"United Artists...
"UK Film Council presents"
"BBC Films"
"A Revolution Film Production"
"United Artists Presents..."
"In association with the UK Film Council"
"A Revoluion Film Production"
"A Michael Winterbottom Film"
Frankly, i don't think that 99% of the country give's a rat's ass about who did what on getting a movie to a theater. We just want the film to roll and the movie to start. Do you eally think that somebody might say "hell no I'm not going to see 'Suicide Panda', those bastards are in association with the UK Film Councel!".
Well, i guess film-hipsters probably do. They are the ones that sit around at dinner parties saying things like "Oh, Sam Pakinpoo, my goodness what a great Casting Consultant. His best work was in that small film, I believe shot in 16mm, back in 1947 in Turkey." and other horseshit like that. These folks do their best to only yap about obscure foreign films.
I've decided that I don't lke The Godfather because for some reason they keep calling Vito Corelena "Don Corelona". In one scene one of the actos slipped and called him "The" Don. Nobody calls me "The William".