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(500) Days of Summer
KvP:
The easiest way to determine if you're seeing a faux-indie film is to track its life on the film festival circuit. Sundance and the like are old and prominent enough by now that specialized wings of the major studios (Fox Searchlight, Sony Pictures Classic, etc.) troll them and snatch up the rights to anything that's even slightly buzzed about or looks like a gamble (for every Borat there are 25 Pootie Tangs). Indie film is now as much a business as anything, and investors looking to make a big sell will siphon large sums of money into films in hopes that Fox Searchlight or whoever will buy the distribution rights and net them a return. There's been a glut of films being made and distributed with remarkably similar vibes because when a relatively modestly made comedy gets plucked from Sundance and makes huge sums of money, the studios will test out whether lightning strikes twice for a good while.
Another easy way to determine faux-indieness is to look at posters.
If the title of your movie looks like it was drawn in a spunky pre-teen girl's sketchbook (see also the tele ads for Away We Go and the opening credits of Juno), you're making a focus-grouped indie film. Bonus if your poster contains cartoon or collage elements. This only became a thing after Juno hit big - marketing of previous major indies like Little Miss Sunshine didn't exhibit the twee aesthetic made popular by Juno.
Lise:
This thread has completely derailed from my initial purpose in starting it, so eff it:
Zooey and JGL in Drag
scarred:
oman I saw that when Pfork featured it, good stuff
knives:
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--- Quote from: knives on 02 Aug 2009, 20:04 ---the film simply reminded me of films that I find better and more enjoyable.
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Touche, Knives, touche. It all boils down to personal taste. Annie Hall did win Best Picture for a reason.
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I'll agree to an extant. As long as you refer to emotion (I.E. I loved that movie, it was my favorite of the week) I' willing to agree. Tastes are varied and strange. There is nothing people will agree 100% on. I'm sure there is a movie, book, song ect. that I love but you dislike. When talking quality though there are quantifiable measures and 500 Days doesn't really stand up to the great scale, it does stand to the good scale though.
Also things produced by any studio, rather then simply bought up afterward are not independent, even if they have a 1k budget.
Scarychips:
You know what? I didn't care if people thought it was bad and hipsterish or anyting. I honestly enjoyesd that movie and felt like I could relate. I felt like Tom so many times. I really enjoyed that movie, thought it was cute and clever. I didn't think it was pretentious nor boring. It was just a good heartfelt movie. After getting out of the theatre, I wanted to get in again and watch it again. That's how much I liked it.
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