You Think?

Once again, the movie industry ponders the meaning of life...

I've said it once and I'll say it again: Originality! That's all you have to do and you will get your audience. Tell the stories that have not been told, or try telling correctly the all the stories you've screwed up so badly. Seriously, how many book based movies didn't skitter off into the puckerbrush? Also, take some risks. I see the same things repeated ad nauseum in different movies. It's so bad that it does not take genius to not predict what will happen next in a film, but even what the next line will be just because the same devices are used over and over again.

I find it funny that Hollywood thought it was an end unto itself, but that it is now slowly waking to the idea that it has customers, not followers, and is subject to the laws of supply and demand.