Last Scene of the Day

[mbarrick]

From the short hair I presume this scene takes place after Patience Price's near-death experience. She goes back to the house again, at dusk, and this time she "storms" (haha - X-Men pun!) up to the house obviously upset about something.

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[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

Some of the best films I've seen have been the $5,000-$10,000 fourth-year films coming out of the film programme at SFU. But the creativity and inventiveness that student film-makers leave school with dies a quick and uncerimonious death under the wheels of the industry.

The same is true of music.

The problem really lies with mass-distribution and the profit-model. For anyone to make money after ponying up for all the inflated expenses, as you mention, they have to appeal to a dismally broad audience requiring that lowest-common-denominiator approach.

For example what film about Vancouver would require a machine gun in a residential neighbourhood? (A pistol in a nightclub, sure, but machine guns in the street... nah.) But things are such that not only would anything genuinely local never get made because of the cost, but it wouldn't get watched even if it were made because the bulk of the audience has been conditioned to only want Hollywood. Regional distictiveness has been has been chopped into a bland purée by cookie-cutter media.