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Old 12.17.2014, 09:27 AM   #18392
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Originally Posted by demonrail666
The industrial definition of indie (especially American indie movies) is a distraction. most people looking for those movies are just looking for a certain type of film, in terms of feel and theme: something not overtly genre based (or if it is, a tendency to deal with it ironically, ie Tarantino: Coens, etc) and leaning towards contemporary 'realist' subject matters. It's probably better just to think of a lot of it as American youth-oriented arthouse cinema. There are obvious examples that contradict that but generally, when I think of an American Indie movie, that's what I'm thinking of. Sofia Coppola would make 'indie' movies regardless of who financed them, IMO.
the funding aspect is all about creative control

take for example "hardware" -- in the dvd issue there is extensive commentary about the liberties richard stanley was able to take because of the structure of the production and his relation with palace pictures which wa sbasically born of this undergound movie theatre where all the weirdos hanged out. with the picture done, it took forever to get dvds made because of clusterfucks in the distribution deal (much like "el topo" was for so long in distribution limbo).

see, robert rodríguez to me is the definition of an independent-- fucker shoots whatever he wants, doesn't bother to go to hollywood and shoots in his own backyard.

now if people are mixing up the terms arthouse and independent then we're losing vocabulary.

part of the problem is that arthouse films were always independent but when the big studios saw the earning potential (mid-90s) they either snapped up companies like miramax and fine line or started spinning off their own independent/arthouse subsidiaries (fox searchlight, sony classics). arthouse still looked like arthouse, and terminator got slicker.

but economics do matter-- a lot. the superstructure is determined by the base, ha ha ha. buts seriously. big studio pictures are done by committee. independents, at least in theory, are truer to a director's vision.
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