Common Themes In The Film Industry

Since the development of film industry, there has been a vast variety of movies representing different values that got published. We measure the success of the movie often by the box office's result but we seems to think that we can predict the results with the popularity of the stars in production. However, it has been proven wrong often. In the articles I've read this week, I found a common theme that although many movie has different theme, but fundamentally, they are similar; also the power of star isn't as influential as we believed. The general theme I find that connected with them all is the production of movies and what makes some of them good. First readings "The Movies" suggested that publicity cannot make a picture successful or a star

Conventions also makes collective action simpler. Author later concluded that art is social in the sense that it is created by collective actions from social organization. Third readings "Individual Creativity in a Collaborative Medium" contributes to this common theme by saying that TV recycles materials, a lot of times when we see something we think is new in TV shows or movies, it is most likely been used before, delivering something very familiar yet new enough that there are certain amount of novelty in it. Fourth readings "A Week on the Set of Murphy Brown" was a record of what happened in the set of a sitcom's production. Despite the fact that this show casted a star, there wasn't star entrances or star mentality, which is different from what we usually hear in the news these days. It showed that at that time, people understand that the title of 'star' isn't permanent and it doesn't affect the show's popularity that much. Fifth readings "Hollywood Dreams, Harsh Realities: Writing for Film and Television" was about the discrimination happening during the production process. Director assigning actors to the roles often are influenced by factors like gender, race, and age of those