With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.
Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.
To get noticed, I had to take my films in a space which was much more democratic in terms of cinema - the international film festivals.
There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing.
The myth that theater isn't for everybody is total nonsense. In the 18th and 19th centuries, everybody in America used to go to the theater all the time. The shows they went to see were big, crazy melodramas that had careening storylines and houses burning down and pretty girls in danger and comedy and death and destruction.
I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.
Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.
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