> As making and releasing movies has become easier, we have seen an increase in the number of low budget films hitting the big screen. At the same time, these films have become increasingly more divisive, although I’m not sure why.
I believe we can expect one from the other. Hollywood and Rockefeller Plaza are huge gatekeeping infrastructures; the sheer number of specialists you need to get buy-in from to make a film in the traditional system means there are multiple layers of people with veto power (or creative control) over an idea.
Decreasing price-to-entry means more people can bypass larger pieces of those edifices, which means fewer gatekeepers between the creative and their idea hitting a screen. Couple that with increasingly bypassed distribution channels (not every film needs to hit a theater), and you're likely to see a more diverse set of minds creating content for people to consume.
Diversity can breed divisiveness if people are of a critical bent, and since we're talking about critics and film audiences, I think we'd expect that link in this context.
I believe we can expect one from the other. Hollywood and Rockefeller Plaza are huge gatekeeping infrastructures; the sheer number of specialists you need to get buy-in from to make a film in the traditional system means there are multiple layers of people with veto power (or creative control) over an idea.
Decreasing price-to-entry means more people can bypass larger pieces of those edifices, which means fewer gatekeepers between the creative and their idea hitting a screen. Couple that with increasingly bypassed distribution channels (not every film needs to hit a theater), and you're likely to see a more diverse set of minds creating content for people to consume.
Diversity can breed divisiveness if people are of a critical bent, and since we're talking about critics and film audiences, I think we'd expect that link in this context.