tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925493305476056067.post5333664072448300900..comments2023-10-15T05:33:35.272-04:00Comments on The Mischiefs of Faction: Life (thankfully) not imitating artSeth Maskethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17178036016555722068noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925493305476056067.post-68380104570803580912013-02-04T11:59:35.756-05:002013-02-04T11:59:35.756-05:00Soderbergh also misses a core difference between h...Soderbergh also misses a core difference between how our political system works and how the film industry works. Why does everyone on a film set do what a director tells them? Because the Director is typically given very broad powers to hire and fire the vast majority of people involved in making a movie and anyone who disagrees with a director and refuses to compromise or do as their told will quickly find themselves out of a job. Imagine a lighting director telling Steven Spielberg, "I don't like how you want to light this scene, and if you don't light it the way I want, I'm going to filibuster and not set up any lights at all and shut down production until I get what I want." Steve would find a new lighting director in about 2 seconds right? But GOP senators are literally doing this right now with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and refusing to allow the agency to even have a director unless they get what they want. In fact Director's are given so much power it can often lead to abuses, Stanley Kubrick infamously reduced the actress who played the wife in "The Shinning" to tears after making her do something like 120 takes of a single scene! <br /><br />In fact when you look at films whose production collapse into fiasco a typical reason is a the presences of a star or director who can't be removed for various reasons and the result is the sort of tragic/comedic fiasco you see going on with a movie with Lindsay Lohan that by all accounts is a disaster: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/magazine/here-is-what-happens-when-you-cast-lindsay-lohan-in-your-movie.html?_r=1& Or directors like Hal Ashby who was doing things like showing up drunk and/or high to the set everyday by the end of his career or spending six months editing and reediting a single short montage. In short when difficult and uncompromising people are forced to work on a film project, that project can collapse into conflict and gridlock just like how a President and Congress that don't agree can.<br />longwalkdownlyndalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13173899547449318257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925493305476056067.post-48053599121363777582013-02-03T17:28:06.438-05:002013-02-03T17:28:06.438-05:00Thanks for the (not very friendly) tip. Correction...Thanks for the (not very friendly) tip. Correction made. Seth Maskethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17178036016555722068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8925493305476056067.post-83138224631043767652013-02-03T17:05:11.511-05:002013-02-03T17:05:11.511-05:00maybe your blog post could be taken more seriously...maybe your blog post could be taken more seriously if you knew how to spell his nameAndyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14071093514962791168noreply@blogger.com