3. The Independent System Will Be Greater Than Ever
This is one thing I am sure of, and so optimistic about. Whilst Im not a fan of Roger Corman, we can never thank the Roger Corman school enough for giving us directors like Scorsese or Coppola. Filmmakers need a place to cut their teeth, say what they want to say on next to no budget, and in my mind they should be doing it from a young age- shorts, adverts, working on other features in a lower-ranking capacity, crowd-funding, documentaries, animation anything! One of the pioneers is Robert Redford with Sundance, another man cinema owes much to. Whilst the independent film industry has flaws just like the studio system, for example, one blogger reported that it seemed every film coming out of Sundance was about white 20-somethings and their problems and with the sore thumb of The Comedy proving him right, intentionally or not, it is going to be the one-stop-shop for unique ideas, untainted by studio interference. I believe no filmmaker should head straight into the studio system- they should make at least one independent they sweating blood and tears to make. How else can they stay brash and confident in the face of studios? Compare Christopher Nolan, Duncan Jones or Gareth Edwards to Rupert Sanders, or Adam Berg or Carl Rinsch. Who came out with impressive debuts made for next to nothing, and then moved onto bigger studio fare that impressed pretty much everyone? I will have to start in the independent system, and if Im lucky enough to make a few films, and then even luckier to get noticed by a studio who will let me direct my own self-scripted project, then Im glad I have forged my own vision and forged my own style I can then inflict on Hollywood. I have a feeling Ill be watching a lot more independent films in the years to come