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Film Courage: Why is it so difficult to make a great movie?
R. Ellis Frazier, Director, Producer, CEO at BADHOUSE Studios: There’s just so many moving parts to make a great movie. You look at films like Apocalypse Now, Godfather, the real great movies, Forrest Gump. There’s so many moving parts and so many people have to believe in the project from the financiers, to the actors, to the distributors, to the people that are making the adjustments on the script and things of that sort. You have to get lucky.
Let’s be real on having all those things come together because it’s not just the money, it’s not just the money and it’s not just the big actor, it’s got to be the whole thing. I look at films like Forrest Gump and that’s just a truly brilliant piece, expansive and meaningful, it makes you cry, it makes you laugh and it means something. Then you look at films like Godfather series, Apocalypse Now, all those truly great films (Taxi Driver) and I think that it’s just you have got to get lucky in so many ways. It’s timing and you do your best. You’re trying to make a great film every time, you’re trying no matter how small you’re trying to do that’s the beauty of it right. Everybody’s trying to make a great film, the greatest film, everyone. Does it come out to be the greatest film? But we’re all trying and some of them get there and some of them don’t. When you hit that lucky stride of creativity and the right amount of resources and money and the right amount of right amount of talent behind everything and then just the right synergy and energy, then it turns into something magic. At the end of the day it has to start with the story and you…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
R. Ellis Frazier is a producer and director, known for Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010), The Line (2009) and Misfire (2014) and many more. Frazier is the CEO of Badhouse Studios Mexico.
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