REAL REVOLUTION
I remember when me and my brother would look at fantasy art back in the day, from artists like Boris Vallejo or Frank Frazetta, and just wish there could be movies like this. The occasional "Conan" type movie just wasn't enough. Sure, there would be late night "barbarian" movies on cable, but we knew they didn't have the money to put a monster in it, so it was all a false hope.
Today, and for the past few years we keep hearing about the digital revolution or some other new media revolution and how cameras of great quality are so cheap that the garage user will change the face of movie making. The reality, however, is that while these cameras are in many hands, the movies coming out of them haven't changed anything. Some make decent product, but it is usually small and personal things, sometimes artsy, sometimes even deep and meaningful, but usually only entertaining to a select few. Let's face it, there's no monster in them either.
The real revolution will be this: When the guy in his living room can make the movies that could not be made before. When that guy brings fantasy art to life with a green screen, DV camera and computer, not because he can go out to some great forest to shoot, but because he can use Vue 5 Infinite to do his sets and backgrounds, and low cost software like Soft Image Foundations ($495) or Lightwave 3D ($795)to breathe life into creatures. These movies will be wildly entertaining to a mass audience, not just a select few locals in the know. Then will the face of Hollywood be changed. Hollywood won't do it. They would rather do Dukes of Hazzard or whatever other twenty year old TV show they can rehash since all originality is lost in a sea of franchises and sequels. So the real revolution begins when the guy in his living room makes a movie that doesn't look like, well, his living room.
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