It's like a pyramid: lots of people know basic stuff, few know the very advanced stuff.
On top off that there are always more people who want to know the basic stuff and ask on a forum, than people who have very complicated questions. And people who are more advanced tend to ask less questions, because they have more ways to find a solution. This will always keep the amount of 'deeper topics' a minority.
And like Gorilla said: in an actual conversation it's much easier to talk about advanced topics.
On a forum it could easily turn into writing a book.
Please go deeper into the various subjects of filmmaking.
Maybe, we all have to challenge IT now and then.
But the fact remains: there is more that I don't know than what I do know. And still I don't feel like I have many questions to ask either. Perhaps, I'm just busy doing my thing without being challenged by overly complicated problems.
But the few times I asked something, I often got some good answers.
I'm still burning from STD's I got treated back during the holidays..I guess that means I have herpes?
It's not "knowing" things that makes good films, even if I'm incompetent in all aspect of film production I can still have a good or even great film on my hands if the story and production process are exceptionally tight and ætherial, a good example would be Robert Eggers's
The Witch (still in theaters btw!), which was incredible and not because it was well written or had a terribly interesting story but I still felt its power- Satan power is what it was. There's a lot of people here that "know" more than me, if fact, know a lot more than me- have more experience, better understanding of mechanics. Does that make a good filmmaker? I kinda feel that it doesn't, otherwise it would be a craftsmen dominated industry which it isn't.
Talking about being honest about the kinds of stories that we want to tell or have others make is important to me, just random things for me, racial or sexual themes, even hard core porn - personally I'd love to see a movie about an endearing small town child molester that we route for not after he porks little kids but we learn he's a wildly popular major of a small town who stands up to corporate injustice in his neck of the heartland, stands up for Christians stupidity even though he's not by any stretch of the imagination one, he's an unlikely hero and gives a little bit of humanity to those we despise.Bill Cosby still made the Cosby Show, a supreb 80's sitcom about a strong and successful African-American family- a nice wish. Another idea is a movie about war or wars between the races - why not?..white versus black , yellow versus orange and brown as white. Am I a racist? Hey, you're just gonna have to stick around and find out.
I remember not too long ago we had a 'Do minorities in Hollywood get enough work' thread that brought up the popular Tinseltown cause celebre that we must now all know of by now..
It was a good thread, some people advocating for more persons of color in mainstream media while, a surprising number, against giving anyone not fortunate enough to have attained box office glory anymore career opportunities just because their black (shitty fucking racists think alike don't they?). It's an already extremely competitive field- so everyone had their idea of fairness- which is fair- so that's a good place to start.
I totally jumped the shark on the 3rd page calling everyone a racist as a joke but perhaps tinged with anger at some of the more overt white supremacy opinions expressed in some of posts "Black people have no place behind a camera" and "My daughter will never fuck a black man"- whatever that means, its not even film related. Mr. sfoster found the entire exchange amusing and accepted the fact he was a racist and sought atonement from me (As a white man I have none to give). My own thoughts were in complete support of the American black separatist angle actually. More negro voices, queer and female can't be enough, I say, considering the Wonder Bread mass appeal releases coming out daily, I travel a lot at it seems like the same silly Marvel superhero movie is on half of the screens at the 24 megaplex mall cinema. Such trival fantasy is so safe. Blah. Imagining using that $250 Million dollars to tell a black story. One of European domination, rape and enslavement in IMAX for 3+ hours.
So naturally the thread was gone the next day, which was too bad because that topic couldn't have developed into something interesting, meaningful, impacting and so forth because it was deleted because you know..race.. can't be having someone calling people 'racists' or ppl getting angry about it because then the website host server would crash. Being that this was all just a random thought anyway I suppose I could've just started another "race in Hollywood" thread just as easily as I do have hands, but I didn't and you get mildly discourage for a moment and as an artist when something like that happens.
. You can PM if you want, I'm just personally ready for change. Please don't take offense now, I love this place, but I just need more depth, more play- more fun.
I have no aspirations to "go pro." I would just like to have a creative outlet. However, there are months on end where I work 7 days/ week. The money is good, but no movies.....