#selling your film

[filmcourage]

I Hated Marketing Movies Until I Learned This Trick - J. Horton

Watch the video interview on YouTube here.

[andromeda3116]

people actually went on about how game of thrones made it socially acceptable to be a fantasy nerd, as though the lord of the rings movies hadn't been released less than a decade earlier and left far greater cultural ripples and i am just

got may have made the adults feel better about liking fantasy, but lotr got into the kids' heads when they (we) were just young and impressionable enough to be absolutely transported and emotionally rewritten by don't you leave him, samwise gamgee and my brother, my captain, my king and and rohan will answer

lotr was rewriting entire generations' brain chemistry long before asoiaf and so obviously it's not fair to compare any post-lotr fantasy novel to it, and each book series was trying to do different things within their own spheres and so that also is not a fair comparison, but in terms of the cultural impact of the adaptations that came out within a decade of each other, saying that it was game of thrones that made fantasy mainstream is baffling

game of thrones could only run because the lord of the rings movies laid the path, and i will die on this hill

[mykashg]

Do you know who I could have been in this world?

HIS DARK MATERIALS 2.05 “The Scholar” (2020)

[nostalgia-tblr]

I watched Avengers: Age of Ultron (apart from I skipped some overly long action sequences) and I am not sure so can someone tell me whether or not Tony Stark was the baddy in that film? Because about halfway through I was sure he was but then it was maybe just an evil robot after all and I am confused because either this film was surprisingly subversive or it was about robots hitting each other.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Rise of Red really brings out the toxic positivity in people, huh?

[nellasbookplanet]

While I'm not necassarily optimistic about the upcoming hunger games movie (I rarely am about adaptations, though I generally try to stay positive until proven wrong), I am in fact very curious about how they'll handle Lucy and Snow's relationship. Like, we all seem to be on the same page about the original movie trilogy turning a social critique with a side of romance into a romance with a side of detached tragedy (ironically mirroring the Capitols approach because we live in a dystopian hellscape). That approach was possible because we more or less always knew the boys' feelings for Katniss were honest, and that while she certainly used them (Peeta especially) to survive the games and was uncertain regarding her romantic feelings, she genuinely did deeply care for them. There was a romance, the movies just over-focused on it because it was the easiest (and in my opinion least interesting) way to go about the adaptation.

With Lucy and Snow, that same approach doesn’t exist. We never truly know how Lucy feels, whether she’s only using Snow to survive or if she actually cares for him (my personal interpretation is a bit of both), but Snow... He never sees her as a whole person. She’s a romantic ideal, a mirror of his trauma, this perfect girl who isn’t like the other people from the districts (because if she were, he'd have to reckon with how the districts were treated), and the moment she falls from the piedestal he's put her on any care he'd held for her immediately evaporates. She was never real to him.

And I worry that the movie will try to turn them into these tragic, star-crossed lovers instead of a traumatized, entitled teenager projecting onto another traumatized teenager and chosing murder when she becomes too much of her own person for him to continue doing so. Please, please don’t try to turn Snow's story into that of a tragic, romantic fallen hero rather than the villain origin story that it is, I beg.

[white-collar-cannibal]

INSANE thought. do you. do you think sneeg or charlie post escape ever looked at an anatomical diagram or photo of a dissection they stumbled onto online on like wikipedia and went. hey that's me.

[liaratisoni]

OK OK OK!!! What a rollercoaster of emotions whew!!! Definitely some things in there that I was NOT expecting but hit SO HARD holy shit. Like I had a feeling we'd get a Louis scene like that at some point but definitely not in this episode. Fuck, that was so hard to watch :(

[spearxwind]

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[abnerkrill]

no ❤️

[filmcourage]

Masterclass On Selling A Movie And The Money They Make - Glen Reynolds [FULL INTERVIEW]

[ribcagewolf]

how to explain how much the theatre backstage pics hurt me

[llycaons]

the funniest thing in the world for me is when disgruntled fans call official adaptations ‘fanfiction’ because they don’t like it. like do you know what an adaptation is

[cruelsister-moved2]

a lot of the fantasy ive read and disliked lately kind of reads like a screenplay there was a nyt article about this but i lost it anyway thats literally what the problem is people dont even seem to get that novels are like their own thing & in the same way that there’s things you don’t get from reading a novel that you get from a film there’s also things you don’t get from watching a film that you do from a novel :/ but it’s self-fulfilling because if you don’t use those things then your novel will just be like. a worse and more boring version of a film

[supercantaloupe]

🔥+ opera

love the fact that two of the three of these asks i got were exactly the same prompt, lol. anyway i'm gonna say it: i like it when operas have repetition in their arias and recurring motifs throughout the opera!! #bringbackthedacapo. and i like having distinct sections of recit and aria. late romantic and modernist stans dni i guess...i simply think that the music is better when it's memorable sorry 💖

[ask meme]

[hell0mega]

people are drawing Steamboat Willie Mickey doing all this crazy shit and whatnot, but you could always do that. you can do that now, with current Mickey, just fine. it's fanart and it's legally protected. hell you could take Disney-drawn Mickey and put a caption about unions or whatever on it and it would still be protected under free speech and sometimes even parody law.

what is special about public domain is that you can SELL him. you could take a screenshot and sell it on a tshirt. you can use him to advertise your plumbing business. people have already uploaded and monetized the original film.

you could always have Mickey say what you want, but now you can profit off it.