Stereotypes Of The Movie Industry

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The movie industry has mostly been considered as vain and superficial. To some extent, it is shallow and egoistic. News of Matt Damon buying a new house in Beverly Hills or George Clooney getting off his helicopter near his house in Lake Como may show how extravagant movie stars can live. The opulence of movie stars’ lifestyles stereotypes the movie business as if it is all about out the money. This is not a wrong claim; in Hollywood every penny counts and the producers are usually out to get more finances. There is, however, a much more profound side of movie making. Not every screening is aimed to make more profit. With globalization on full throttle, the movies can be distributed on a wider scale much easier with various causes other than …show more content…

As a Bosnian film and theatre director, he had the responsibility to revitalize the city’s cosmopolitan style of living. Thankfully, he had external assistance to guide him along the way and make this festival a success. Renowned German film director, Wim Wenders supplied most of his films to the film festival. His movie, Until the End of the World was the opening movie for the festival and gave the film festival its theme “Beyond the End of the World”. In addition to sending his cinematic masterpiece, he requested many other directors to do the same. These directors included Kryzystof Kieslowski and the famous director Francis Ford Coppola. For the promotion of the festival Susan Sontag, an American writer and filmmaker, exported hundreds of copies of the promotion poster which were printed in New York City into surrounded Sarajevo. (Redzic, 2014) Even though she was misusing the United Nations airlift, the usage of globalization saved the film festival’s fate.Without the supply of international film director’s movie contribution to the Sarajevo Film Festival and publicity that came from New York, the festival would not be able to accommodate 20,000 people from all over the country that took place in three theaters. (Kirka,1994) This was a big event towards using global distribution techniques to promote humanity in a country that has lost all utilities and goodness. Pasovic strived to keep the artistic veins of the Balkans; he wanted the world to know Balkans are not bloody and barbaric but teeming with beauty of different cultures it

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