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Commercialism in Films

January 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Part 2




Films are a way for people to communicate with other. Its a platform for them in order to share their ideas in a visual way which is more effective for understanding and most of the time the prefered way, because people can be a bit lazy to read.

By the time, things started to change and the main aim started to become to earn money. Of course it is important for people to think of money because of the fact that it is the only way to survive by yourself in their lifes without doing anything against the laws. However this idea got into many areas of life and it started to effect art. This is the place where the free ideas and sometimes the wild ideas comes out which we can’t think of having them prisoned. In order to earn money, filmmakers started to use commercials in their films in order to secure some sellings after the movie. Some examples can be given for that such as Jurassic Park. That was my favourite movie when I was young, and at that time I didn’t even think of a commercial in the movie although I watched it about 6-7 times. However someone have to show it to you in order for you to see that by yourself. There is a scene wheere one of the child characters go and see the gift shop in the park itself. According to the documantry we watched it was for increasing the sellings of those items. When I watched it what I saw was the dreams of one of the character in the film, but that one makes sense aswell. Another example can be given from the Truman Show which is a film in a film about commercialism. In the whole movie there are pieces of adds such as the wifes talking of the new knife and its abilities by showing it to her husband (Truman) as if she was in an add. Moreover Truman’s friend’s 6 beers which he brings to him and talks about it.

In my opinion film sectory is not a way to earn money, at least its main goal shouldn’t be to earn lots of money and don’t pay much attention on movie itself.

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