A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.
The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed.
I think when any one kind of film does well, it creates a precedent and paves the way for more like it.
I think a film noir demands a beginning and an end.
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and nuances of a novel, it doesn't even get close.
A lot of films come out before they're finished.
At the end of the day, it is about working in a good film. It's the films that you leave behind that matter.
I've produced a couple of films and really enjoyed starting it from the very beginning and seeing it all the way through to the end; that was very gratifying.
I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.
A hard beginning maketh a good ending.