Dumb Hollywood is forever in debt to Europe
Forget the preponderance of American films on the 'best of' lists. By the highest artistic standards, Hollywood falls short of European cinema - and has since the beginning.
Nobody can escape the loud voice of American cinema booming from every newspaper, magazine, television set and website. But American cinema - the most hyped on earth - is also the most predictable, conformist and derivative. Increasingly, Hollywood doesn't make movies, it remakes movies. During the golden age of the Hollywood studio system, America produced much that was cleverly entertaining, despite being restricted by the confines of a conservative ideology and strict stylistic demands. Today, more than ever, American films are brightly packaged unsubtle entertainments mass-produced for intellectually undemanding under-25s.
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