[Fmpro] "Freedom Of Expression"

[Christopher Alpiar]

I agree whole heartedly to the sentiment Evan!

However, if we ignore the business aspect then what happens is the  
bean counters who never cared in the first place just make more of the  
pie than they did before and they have less of a desire to include any  
amount of art in their product. This ends up being a cycle that will  
show even less art in film and tv than there is today.

I think the real position to be in is one of balance. Understanding  
what art means to you and to many people and cultures and being  
passionate and sympathetic about it. And at the same time  
understanding the business and being bold enough to allow art to have  
a monetary value and to do what is necessary to reap the monetary  
benefits while having a balanced and diplomatic view on compromises  
when bringing your art to this commercial activity.

Don't forget movies are not like other art forms, part of the very  
essence of what a film is has very commercial overtones. Indeed a film  
is a media extravaganza that is formatted purely for the sake of mass  
consumption. Its not like playing avant garde jazz where you *KNOW*  
with some relative certainty that your trio or quartet will probably  
get 200 bucks for a sweaty 5 hour gig of soul searching and self  
musical awareness. Its not a piece of art made in Vashan Island made  
from hemp and hand blown glass beads that its creation was made purely  
for the sake of giving away a memory. Its a film and is a  
collaboration of many people who's skill level must have had enough  
time in study and preparation within a commercial industry that there  
must be a commercial aspect to the product. For that alone I do not  
believe in a utopian purely art film that is going to be of a quality  
enough to do the art of it justice. All we can do, and definitely  
should do, is to keep a good balance of perspective and to continually  
insert as much art as we can without giving up the Benjamins ;-)

Christopher Kennedy Alpiar
Cinematic Composer
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On Jun 6, 2008, at 1:59 PM, The Composer Collective wrote:

> Acceptance, tolerance, and perhaps having an open mind is all that  
> one needs
> as their criticism tools. Unless the person is doing someone else  
> harm, or
> if they are putting themselves at more harm than they are aware, then
> you(society) don't need to intervene.
>
> As George Carlin said: "In the future, when we finally get over  
> racism,
> bigotry, and everyone is purple, red, and brown ... then we'll have  
> to hate
> people for who they truly are."
>
> Movies are no better than radio. Radio's content is not music. The  
> MUSIC is
> just the "commercials" so the real content can be heard in between  
> (the
> ads). And movies are just actor delivery devices. People don't see  
> movies
> because of the stories. They just see whatever movie their trusted  
> idol has
> endorsed this time. It's a giant product endorsed by gamble-holics  
> (actors
> who got lucky).
>
> Outside of that jaded view, there actually can be found some art in  
> movie
> making. And those are the only films I care about. Films and film  
> scores
> that are innovative, and progressing the art. If we ever squash the  
> ability
> to express movies artistically we'll have completed the loop on  
> Capitalism
> and become worth only what energy we're willing to give up to those  
> who will
> take it. Capitalism is mean. It punished the weak and rewards the  
> strong.
> It's just an excuse to be an asshole. But while we're TRAPPED in a  
> society,
> born into capitalism, we have to spend 90% of our lives scrambling  
> to keep
> our loved ones alive, and healthy. And a lot of us are nuts enough  
> to think
> that MONEY is what makes one healthy (mentally, physically, and
> spiritually). We've been squeezed so tight into thinking that we can  
> barely
> eek out any deep meaning from our life into art anymore.
>
> Art is what connects us to the eternal life force. It helps us  
> realize how
> we should think, what we should care about, who should be important  
> to us.
> Anyone who is a lover of art (free expression) is doing a part in  
> making the
> universe a peaceful place.
>
> DO MORE ART ... LESS CAPITALISM.
>
> Evan Evans
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ted Peterson" <ted.peterson at tcsn.net>
>> To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
>> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 2:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Fmpro] Where are the Distinctive Voices In Scoring?
>>
>>
>>> You'll have to tat over the existing one that says "Snob." By the
>>> way, my cousin is the most tattooed woman on the face of the planet.
>>> She was the first woman to get a full "suit" and has been in art
>>> journals and has had her photographs displayed all over the world.
>>> She is in the Guggenheim exhibit on body art. My mother and her
>>> mother went ballistic as did all other family relatives. When I last
>>> go married, I invited her and made sure she wore a spaghetti strap
>>> sun dress. She made a real hit. My wife's parents who were a
>>> psychiatrist and a psychoanalysis spent a lot of time telling me how
>>> maladjusted my cousin was and how she distracted from the  
>>> occasion. I
>>> thought she looked great. My daughter fell in love with her and
>>> thought she was the coolest woman she had ever met.
>>>
>>> Ted Peterson
>>
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