Small truths

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Originally Posted by scaeagles

I just don't get the whole concept of celebrity worship or of celebrities patting each other on the back for pretty much meaningless work in films.

Wow, man, you went into it again on another thread? You ARE looking for a fight!

Like I said in the other thread, it isn't about celebrity for me. But, damn. If you think the amount of time and energy that goes into a film is "pretty much meaningless"... well... I don't even know what to say to you.

If it's the films that you think are meaningless, well, that's fair, because I still don't understand the meaning of basketball, and we'll never agree on either matter. So in that light, we're both right. Sports have a great deal of meaning for some people and not others, movies have a great deal of meaning for some people and not others.

If, on the other hand, you think the work is meaningless... if you think that filmmakers don't work extremely hard to even get to a place where they have the platform to tell their stories and be able to make them... let alone the time and energy it takes to actually create them, let alone the singular skills that have to occur in so many separate people in order to ensure a film's quality... well, there's where you're definitely wrong.

Because from my perspective, as someone who's working pretty hard in my off hours to make it to that platform where I'm able to make my own, as well as someone who, during my offICE hours, works pretty hard to support the film studios, and as someone whose husband just had a major credit on a small art-house film on which he worked extremely hard... it's a great, great deal of work for us - and we find it very meaningful.

So when others are able to make great films - or even truly interesting but flawed ones - we see them. We cheer them. And we watch with fascination just how they're received by the film community.