No Spoilers on the Endings, ONLY the PLOT.
When I say the truth, I mean that to a certain extent, not extending towards all production companies, but this, from what I hear, is a common state of mind in LA: That films tend to be more about the MONEY than they are about the actual art of film.
In this episode of Entourage, three big things happen. Johnny Drama goes out for his first job in a long time, a pilot for an Ed Burns show. Ari is getting ready to set up shop, but runs into trouble when he discovers that Terrence knows about Ari opening up a new and bigger agency. But the biggest message in the whole episode, and one of the biggest messages that has been shown in this series, is the contrast between "money films" and "art films," and how the movie execs of Los Angeles treat the two.
Vince is notified of the grand news that Queens Boulevard is opening on a wide release to over 1200 screens, as opposed to the 6 that it started from. When Vince calls up Walsh to celebrate the good news, Walsh is depressed as hell about it, because they ended up taking the gorgeous black and white soul of the film, the raw spirit of it, and "Willy Wonkafied" it, coloring every frame. This deeply depresses Vince and Eric, and brings them to a decision of whether or not to sign the injunction that Walsh has prepared, to keep the film from the wide release.
From the dawn of cinema history, the art film has been treated as an art form, a pristine culmination of literature, photography, music, and supremely, storytelling. But, as films grew in popularity and use, greedy bastards world wide began to realize its material worth, only to sell it out as something that will make nothing but money, and to only give people what they want to see, hence better ticket sales. From the moment these thoughts began to brew in the minds of such scumbags, the art of film has been tainted with money and greed, ever corrupted, with only a portion of the film loving community to be able to rise up and bring up what it once was, a storytelling medium, no matter what the story was. It just so happened that the most successful directors tell interesting stories that people do want to see, and are easily passable through censors. The problem with film-making is that people find it harder to show films that people "don't want to see". That's like holding a painter's true vision back, simply because it's too gory, or is "unviewable".
This is not what art is about. It's about expression. And when money taints these feelings expressed through celluloid, an episode like this, may result with such a message.
GOD BLESS ENTOURAGE FOR BRINGING IT OUT.
When I say the truth, I mean that to a certain extent, not extending towards all production companies, but this, from what I hear, is a common state of mind in LA: That films tend to be more about the MONEY than they are about the actual art of film.
In this episode of Entourage, three big things happen. Johnny Drama goes out for his first job in a long time, a pilot for an Ed Burns show. Ari is getting ready to set up shop, but runs into trouble when he discovers that Terrence knows about Ari opening up a new and bigger agency. But the biggest message in the whole episode, and one of the biggest messages that has been shown in this series, is the contrast between "money films" and "art films," and how the movie execs of Los Angeles treat the two.
Vince is notified of the grand news that Queens Boulevard is opening on a wide release to over 1200 screens, as opposed to the 6 that it started from. When Vince calls up Walsh to celebrate the good news, Walsh is depressed as hell about it, because they ended up taking the gorgeous black and white soul of the film, the raw spirit of it, and "Willy Wonkafied" it, coloring every frame. This deeply depresses Vince and Eric, and brings them to a decision of whether or not to sign the injunction that Walsh has prepared, to keep the film from the wide release.
From the dawn of cinema history, the art film has been treated as an art form, a pristine culmination of literature, photography, music, and supremely, storytelling. But, as films grew in popularity and use, greedy bastards world wide began to realize its material worth, only to sell it out as something that will make nothing but money, and to only give people what they want to see, hence better ticket sales. From the moment these thoughts began to brew in the minds of such scumbags, the art of film has been tainted with money and greed, ever corrupted, with only a portion of the film loving community to be able to rise up and bring up what it once was, a storytelling medium, no matter what the story was. It just so happened that the most successful directors tell interesting stories that people do want to see, and are easily passable through censors. The problem with film-making is that people find it harder to show films that people "don't want to see". That's like holding a painter's true vision back, simply because it's too gory, or is "unviewable".
This is not what art is about. It's about expression. And when money taints these feelings expressed through celluloid, an episode like this, may result with such a message.
GOD BLESS ENTOURAGE FOR BRINGING IT OUT.
