'Heading South' (Vers le sud)

[LaydeezmanCris]

No problem, brotha 8)

You don't seem to getting them. This is your e-mail, right?

keys4cris@hotmail.com

Absolutely

 

[LaydeezmanCris]

Let's see; according to Hollywood/Mainstream America:

Billy Bob Thornton screwing Halle Berry: Groundbreaking

Denzel/Will Smith/Jamie Foxx screwing Scarlett Johansson : Provocative

Hypocrisy anyone??? :roll:

If you have a digital video camera and a decent computer, some decent video capture hardware on your computer, decent video capture and video editing programs (some of which are open source and free), and a nice broadband internet connection, then you can create your own movie and distribute it over the Internet. If Hollywood is not giving us what we desire, then we can create and distribute our own. First, there was Hollywood, the major music studios, corporate game companies, and book publishing companies. Then as costs lowered, the indie movement (which does better at addressing our wants and needs) began to emerge in all endeavors, with indie gaming being the newest indie industry. Now, with costs lowered by widespread IT, we will see the start of DIY media, and are starting to see it today. ATR is a nice podcast (online talk radio) for those interested in interracial, multiracial, and transracial issues, and MMW is a nice blog. People can create and are creating DIY movies, music, software, books, and games.

Thats a great idea but like i have said countless times on this site, i really do not need Hollywood nor anyone for that matter to dictate to me what i already know exists. They do not wanna show IR at the movies, big deal? I do not think its the greatest idea but i certainly do see where they are coming from. The "middle class white man" does not want to pay to see "his woman" get cozy with "his number one enemy". Thats mutiny at its apex :lol: :lol: He will not be able to relate to that at all :lol: :lol: As for me, i do not need any movie director to "portray" something i know really exists. The mere fact that it does exists in reality is enough for me.

 

[Howiedoit]

I seen this first hand . . . in Jamaica

In my many travels to Negril, Jamaica I have seen this happening alot not only in Haiti and Jamaica but all over the Caribbean.

Go to Hedonism II and III.

 

[JREMINATOR]

I guess the Europeans have an easier time dong these nudity, IR type flicks, huh?

America is the most hypocritical country in the world! Showing sex & nudity on-screen is bad, but showing gratuitous violence & killing is OK.

Remember the furor that Janet Jackson's nipple slip on the Super Bowl half-time show stirred in the US!!?? America has attacked, invaded & occupied a country in the Middle East -- Iraq -- for no apparent reason than its former dictator stopped doing what the 'regime in Washington' wanted him to do....that, and America wants an uninterruped flow of oil from Iraq, as well as to establish strategic military bases there.

The Kid Rasta :evil:

Wow Kid...Jeez, your post just amazed me...this is incredible coming from an American and I have to clap, clap, clap!!

With all the ppl I hear say here that there is sooo much more freedom in the US and that it isn`t hypocritical...your analysis is so true...it is ok to show someone get beheaded by a bomb in an action movie, on prime time...but just seeing one tit stirs a month-long controversy! this is quite disturbing honestly!

In France, the late president Mitterrand, admitted he cheated on his wife and had a kid with his mistress...it was a scandal for like...2 days...then everybody was like...well, whatever...If it had happened here, it would have been shouts of "EMPEACHMENT!!!" and blablabla for 3 months...

but when young marines get blasted guts open in a country they couldn`t even locate on a map before going there...well...not much is said...I feel sick...

 

[MelissafromLA]

Let's see; according to Hollywood/Mainstream America:

Billy Bob Thornton screwing Halle Berry: Groundbreaking

Denzel/Will Smith/Jamie Foxx screwing Scarlett Johansson : Provocative

Hypocrisy anyone??? :roll:

If you have a digital video camera and a decent computer, some decent video capture hardware on your computer, decent video capture and video editing programs (some of which are open source and free), and a nice broadband internet connection, then you can create your own movie and distribute it over the Internet. If Hollywood is not giving us what we desire, then we can create and distribute our own. First, there was Hollywood, the major music studios, corporate game companies, and book publishing companies. Then as costs lowered, the indie movement (which does better at addressing our wants and needs) began to emerge in all endeavors, with indie gaming being the newest indie industry. Now, with costs lowered by widespread IT, we will see the start of DIY media, and are starting to see it today. ATR is a nice podcast (online talk radio) for those interested in interracial, multiracial, and transracial issues, and MMW is a nice blog. People can create and are creating DIY movies, music, software, books, and games.

That's a good point madscientist. Many filmmakers go onto make independent features when they cannot get funding from a major studio. Although I know all to well from working company town myself in post-production, that any other distriubution other than wide distribution is dismissed as a result of fringe or guerilla filmmaking. Even "road show" type distribution is considered outsider, and it shows on the silver screen. I'm glad that there's technology cheap enough so everyone can afford video production. Still, the most expensive cinealta digital camera can't hold up to a 35mm in quality...and there's just something about that soft lighting it provides. On top of that, novices using Final Cut versus tinseltown pros using the industry standard, AVID, doesn't help either. The end product is a grainy, poor sounding film that people ignore. Unfortunately even after production of something like vers la sud, which is actually pretty good, it would never get picked up for wide distribution because it doesn't appeal to wide audiences. That's the truth of the bu$ine$$. Hollywood isn't about filmmaking, it's about distribution.