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Ok. Indie music has been settled. Now, *sigh*, on to indie movies.
So last year, The Dark Knight sold close to 74 million tickets. That is, undeniably, a huge number. So is its budget: 185 million. So what differentiates The Dark Knight from a film like Brick? Brick, for the many of you who don’t know, is an “indie” film made on about half a million dollars. One half of a million dollars, you ask? Yes. Although it may seem like a large sum of money, and it is, in terms of production costs of a feature film, it’s not too substantial. Anyway, Brick is considered an “indie” film, not because of it’s subject, style, director, or even budget. Simply because of the fact that a major studio did not have influence with the initial production constitutes Brick as an indie movie.
So where am I going with this? In a way, I wish that the common conceptions of indie music could be switched with those of indie movies. Meaning, I wish that indie movies were classified by subject and style and not the studio involved while indie music simply involved an artist without the backing of a major studio. I just looked at the Myspace Music top bands page and Paramore is listed as Indie. Just sayin’.
So far, this has been very convoluted and unfocused, and I apologize, but now is where my main point comes in. I honesty don’t see why adding the tag of “indie” somehow makes a movie great. Student films, while creative and often very unique, are quite often not even nearly as provocative as many large studio movies. Crash, which, in my opinion, is one of the most well crafted and thought provoking films ever created is nothing like Cashback, a great indie film, because Crash is bounds beyond Cashback.
This didn’t come out how I intended it to but the ideas aren’t coming into my head right now. So, I’m gonna publish this but feel free to rebuke it and give your own opinion.
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