NOBODY is talking about making "art movies"

By "art movie" I mean "a 'good' movie that is not expected to make money because most people won't get it".

that's a generalization and a stereotype. art movies do not have to be boring.

Yes, it's stereotypical. Sorry. But here's what I was responding to:

I WILL RATHER MAKE A GOOD FILM THAN JUST MONEY

He seems to think that making money will hamper his quest to make a good movie. He doesn't seem to realize that good movies usually make money and that profitable movies are usually quite good. Nollywood is successful because, if you can look beyond the superficial flaws, many of their movies are actually quite good. Beyond that, some compromises they make are acceptable because a flawed movie is still better than no movie. When you say you believe in quality but you're yet to raise enough money to make a movie your way, you are not better than the hustler in Nollywood who has made 4 or 5 average or bad movies. In Nigeria, we make lots of bad movies and some good ones. In other countries, except India and the US, they make no movies. They don't even have any movies to criticize. And the few movies they make are technically perfect but boring compared to our 'junk'.

But that's not what this thread is about, is it? It's about a short film in need of actors.

but that is a stereotype in of itself, and the kind of reasoning that is used to defend the crap that Nollywood puts out: the idea that if you make something that is of better quality, that the audience will not "get" it. (or as one producer once put it to me: "our audience is not sophisticated, so why should our movies be?"

I'm merely suggesting that those "good" art films that nobody gets are actually bad films.
If you open your mouth and words come out but nobody understands, you're a bad communicator.

Yeah. The thing is, my comment about art movies was a throwaway comment. We are all artists.

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Thanx I think I now understand better and base on our last discussion it not about the art anymore just strictly business right?

Indeed!

Don't you have thoughts of your own to add?