I feel privileged to have been asked by the coordinators of a local TED Talks conference (Jupiter, Florida) to write the script for the entertainment portion of the event. Have just put the finishes touches on an abbreviated one-man show which asks the question "Do society’s actions influence Hollywood movies or do Hollywood movies influence how society views itself and the world?" Anyone care to share their thoughts on how that question should be answered?
Filmmaking / Directing : Do society’s actions influence Hollywood movies or do Hollywood movies influence how society views itself and the world? by Donna M. Carbone
Do society’s actions influence Hollywood movies or do Hollywood movies influence how society views itself and the world?
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I think it is a bit of both with the emphasis being on the influence of Hollywood. How many young women wore sweatshirts with the necks cut out of them before Flashdance? I think if you saw film and television as an apparatus of mass hypnosis, you would not be far wrong...
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The film industry does influence how we see and interact with the world whether we realize it or not. There are films out there in the documentary genre that expand your own little universe beyond your own neighborhood. Science fiction can influence where scientific discovery goes because the adage that "if you can dream it, it can become reality" applies. For instance scientists and physicists are trying to come up with a warp drive engine, which likely never would have been explored, except for the fact that STAR TREK made the concept possible. .
Thank you, Stephen and Linda, for your comments. My question is a variation on the old which came first - the chicken or the egg and, of course, the popular does art imitate life or does life imitate art. Both of your responses hit the nail on the head. The premises of my script is that fear sells and the Hollywood studio is the most successful advertising agency ever created. The honchos are always watching and listening... then, they hire writers, producers and directors to bring our foibles to life on screen. The movies are the mirrors through which we see ourselves.
'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out' - Alfred Hitchcock.
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Eoin: What I wouldn't give for some of those dull bits this week!
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