Is Art Necessary?

Emphatically I would say yes.

It's the old Mac VS PC debate. Which is the better, for a computer to have flash and style or just be technically proficient and nothing more.

By all means if you so desire take this and roll with it yourself and think about why we create art at all...

Well, I think it is somewhat sexual, art. It's about emotional release. A lot of Art is very much made to provoke some kind of emotional response.

I remember James Cameron saying that his purpose is to somehow incite an emotional reaction from the audience. And he's the guy, a Genius artist, who has been delving deeply into exactly HOW a film can achieve some kind of emotional reaction.

You'll see it. A lot of films are made and some of them really make you want to sit and watch what happens to the characters. It's a really complex task to generate interest in the story especially now today.

Back as a kid, I'd just sit and watch anything, didn't need to be complex or deep. But the veil has been lifted these days. We all know these movies are just bullshit. Not real. So they have to go to extremes these days to make us care about the story and characters. Lots of violence has been the answer to that. But that's not the way I'd approach it. If you want to sell a story, you take your fucking time and tell it. Don't get it over with. Give us moments of little stuff going on, characters thinking about things, whatever... make it true to life.

It's like the difference between X1 and X2 and X3. Obviously the third movie was made with half a brain behind it.

that's the kind of thing that I personally don't favor about films these days vs the old days when there was no CGI.

The art of crafting a world and letting the audience get lost in it is in itself a lost art these days.

I hope to GOD that JJ Abrams approaches Star Wars with the intention of bringing it back to its roots. I hope he watches Empire 50 times before filming anything. Then watches a lot of smart films that don't rely on fx at all.

But WHY WHY WHY WHY do we like to create art? Because it's FUN. Because we're bored. Life is boring. You wake up you go piss. You go eat. You go shit. You may go to work or you may sit oround watching a movie. Whatever... Life is boring. But in order to make life so much more fun. We create truly fun little works of art here and there.

I wish I knew how to join in on the fun myself. Film making is a billion dollar industry. it is above and beyond impressive how the same fucking actors can make millions prettymuch playing themselves every movie...

Will Smith.

I don't know. Very smart fucking people doing very Smart fucking things... I don't got shit to do with that. I just know I have artistic visions myself and wouldn't mind learning how to craft them through these new technologies we have. You may look down on some guy in his basement making fan films, but isn't that how Spielberg Started? Yunno... He's not this guy who ended up where he was through sheer luck, he's the BEST.

and maybe I'm crazy, but I think I can do better than him. With time of course. everyone's wondering who the next spielberg is going to be....

Everyone's saying oh it's peter jackson, oh its Guerllmo Deltoro... but no... maybe it's me... I've done the same things. I've made movies and stuff for fun as a kid and as a teen and still enjoy it. So I mean once we get this static movie over, I can see myself potentially getting into film making. Problem is, who cares about my movies? Nobody...