The movie turned into Content - and Martin Scorsese, the director of such paintings, like "Evil Streets", "Taxi driver", "Mad Bull", "Glorious Guys", "Gangs of New York" and "Wolf with Wall Street", published on The site Harper's Magazine Emotional Manifesto in the defense of the art of cinema, taking to the "allies" of Fellini himself and told, including the love of the creativity of Maestro and personal friendship with him. In the death of art, the director blames the streaming services with their commercialized approach to creating a movie - with their difficult hand it turned into a video content. We publish the most interesting quotes from the essay.
"The word" content "has become a business term for any moving images: David Lina film, video with cat, superherbul ads, superhero sequel, episode of the series. This term, of course, is not tied to theatrical shows, but to home views on the street platforms, which have crowded movies to the movies like Amazon outstretched physical stores. On the one hand, for the creators of the movie it was good, including me. On the other hand, it led to the situation when everything is presented to the viewer in a single playing field. Sounds democratic, but it is not. If the content for further viewing is "offered" algorithms based on what you have already seen, and these recommendations are based only on the topic or genre, how does this affect the art of cinema? "
"Today, people are amazed by the latest technological devices and their abilities. But light digital cameras and new post-production techniques, digital gluing and transformations will not make a film for you. The most important thing is your choice, your solutions that you take throughout the entire process of creating the entire film. For the greatest artists, such as Fellini, there are no trifles - everything matters. I am sure that he would be delighted with light digital cameras, but they would not affect his hardness and accuracy in making art decisions. "
"Curability is not an anti-democratic or" elitar ", this term is generally so often consumed that he has lost its meaning. This is generosity gesture - you share what you like, what inspires you. The best cutting platforms such as Criterion Channel and Mubi, as well as traditional platforms like TCM are just based on curacing - and they are really supervised. Algorithms, by definition, are based on calculations for which the viewer is only a consumer and nothing more. "
"In the film business, which today has become the business of massive visual entertainment, the emphasis was always made on the word" business ", and value is always determined by the amount of money that can be squeezed from a particular material."
"Those of us who know the cinema and his history must share their love and their knowledge with the maximum possible number of people. And we must extremely clearly understand the current formal owners of these films that they are something much more than just the property that can be used and then locked up. These films are among the greatest treasures of our culture and require appropriate appeal. "
"We must reconsider our ideas about what is cinema, and what is not. Federico Fellini is a good starting point. About Fellini films can be said many different, but one is indisputable: this is a movie. The creativity of Fellini helps to determine this type of art. "