24.6.10

Other Decodable Celluloid Recipes for Money




By Shankar
Images Courtesy of: Buenavista Home Entertainment

Just like in gourmet life and The Food Network, all of us in Distrikt seem to be
excited about an idea as wacky as: recipes in film. Is it too crazy to believe there
is a formula for success in Hollywood? Read and find out.
I took the opportunity of borrowing one of Shankar’s spaces in our magazine to share some ideas with you. These can make all of us rich, and this includes yourself...
yes you, our blissful reader. Let me explain how this can be possible.
Throughout past decades, Hollywood has been in desperate need of maintaining their overexposed, super-ultra-high lifestyle. They use us -the mortal ones- to keep their Rolls Royce shiny and their parties lusty; and they do this by feeding the world audience with recipes that we might like to consume.
It is not strange to us that certain subjects or tendencies in movies are fashionable
at certain times or decades.
In the 60’s all of the greatest musicals - including movies like “The Sound of Music”- lasted more than two years playing in some cinemas of Mexico City. Can you imagine having to watch ‘The Rock’ for two years in a row? Even watching great films for two years straight is absurd.
In the 70’s there was lots of sex and less musicals, along with the first movies about really mean African American guys. Not to mention that there was some rude violence in gangster movies too. All of this ended with the second coming of the new Sci-Fi and George Lucas’s Star Wars. It was all about stereotyping.



The 80’s were filled with war, martial arts and general violence movies, these led to an -almost repugnantdecadence; unexpectedly, the most powerful of these movies rules the most important State in the business of the 7th art, the one and only Governator.
The 90’s... The films during this era can be resumed to: Magnolia, American History X, Good Will Hunting, Fight Club, American Beauty, Braveheart, Gladiator, Silence of the Lambs and the soul-filling Shawshank Redemption. In other words, mind games, perversion in history, humbleness and guilt trips.



Then comes Y2K, the perfect excuse for continuing to sell us their formulas, like letting us know how many courses our meal will have and in how much time we should expect it. They do this to keep the ‘real fans’ hungry for new films just after they’ve had dessert and are ready to go.
This is the case of movies such as: the Star Wars Trilogy, Lord of the Rings, X-Men, Matrix (one of the first ones by the way) and the hero of all parents, the savior of all the kids because it makes them read again...yes, you guessed right, Mr. Potter!



If you can analyze this environment where we live in and figure out what will people like – or consume- years from now, you just might become rich. It happens the same with fashion as it comes back from the dead when you least expect it. Imagine, you can make lots of money offering a decent script, just like this nice waitress did a couple of years ago with the Potter kid.
This decade is halfway through, so you still have a chance to propose something outstanding to the world of Hollywood. Think about it! If you come up with a HIT, instead of forgetting my suggestion, I urge you to share, by buying ad space in our magazine, inviting us to lunch in your new tropical garden or by taking the Distrikt team to the premiere of your successful screening.