by David Samuel

Created on: November 17, 2010

I am the first to say that high end effects and top name actors and actresses cannot make a bad script great.  You can’t polish a turd!  However with a talented writer/filmmaker there are so many benefits of having a huge budget in your hands, especially if your hands are linked to a genius mind like James Cameron or a George Lucas.  Look what has happened with those two guys once they got the backing they needed to create the movie they imagined.  In James case he waited 10 years or more for the technology to catch up to his imagination and without the budget there would have been no way for him to even create “Avatar”.

The film industry was and is revolutionized because of filmmakers like these two.  The budget was invested in film making research for these guys.  When they get the means handed to them they need the end result is ground breaking technology ideas.  These ideas don’t just push the envelope of cinema technology but break it wide open. New ways to create films are birthed for all to celebrate with the end result bringing new toys and ideas for all filmmakers to adapt to their story telling methods.  These huge budgets when used with wisdom benefits many in the end.

WARNING! For the movie house investing in the filmmakers they better do their homework before they throw their money at these films for production.  It is a risky move if not a calculated one.  I sometimes wonder if they even read the movie scripts for some of these blockbusters.  If I was the one with the cash I would make sure it wasn’t going to be one of those special effects bonanza types of movie because today’s audience is more educated than that. 

You have to have some kind of plot and depth of character development before you go overboard on the money for special effects and big names.  So without going on and on the answer is a resounding yes.  Without these investors the wonderful medium of movie making would not grow and develop.  It would have died years ago.  Our imaginations are so powerful and as great as technology is today our minds and creative thoughts are still ahead of the technology available to the creators of film.

On a closing note: I would like to mention there are many more names than James and Lucas one of my favorites that I am excited to see get a huge budget is J.J Abrahams.  He did a great job on the latest “Star Trek” movie and of course the “Wachowski Bros” where would movies be without the “Matrix”?

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