I understand that art films are the pinnacle of the independent filmmaking side of hollywood. I respect the craft and passion that is poured into them. It's also amazing to me that they achieve Oscars. My personal question and seeking advice is what if you don't want to tell a message and a story in the form of an artistic film, but instead in a style like inception or interstellar. Is it possible to create a film that causes mass audience to critically think about complex issues and concepts without having to be an over exaggerated sobbing or sapping type of style.
Anything Goes : Critical thinking over artistic view by Eddie Orozco
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You should never aim for "exaggerated sobbing or sapping type style" but the reasons Inception and Interstellar worked on a wide level (and what Nolan is so good at) is that they both incorporated very personal stakes for their protagonists. Nolan has even done this with his Dark Knight Trilogy. If you remove Cobb's personal issues from Inception it could still be a fun, but would not have the power the film currently has. As for Interstellar... well McConaughy does quite a bit of sobbing anyway. Bottom line, you can talk all day about black holes, etc, but you would better get an audience to care if there is some personal conflict tied in.
Thank you for the response Hugh. With what you said could you get a studio on board with that complexity, because this could just be me, but it seems like the content now a days has plot holes, poor dialog, and poor characters.
If you were to write Inception or Interstellar as a first time writer, I'm pretty sure the answer would be "No." Those High-Complex-Concept movies got made based on the Nolan name. (The story goes that producers only green-lighted Inception in order to keep Nolan happy and so get him to do Dark Knight Rises. They were nay-saying the film even after it opened to huge box-office numbers). If you're talking about a first time outing, your best bet is to keep the budget down (ie. not too many super-duper blackhole effects), this decreases risk for a producer. Of course that's just one opinion. Everything is impossible right up until someone does it.
O.K so I should take a "Crawl before you walk" approach?
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Yes, I'd suggest you earn the producer's confidence first. Consider it a challenge to write an intelligently complex script with few special effects.
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