This reminds of the praise I heard towards the italian subgenre "poliziottesco" from the 70s, deemed superior to the american crime thrillers of that time since they were able to rival the tension and action scenes of Hollywood with a fraction of the budget. Federico Frusciante, an italian movie expert, made an example along these lines: "Let's say that you're filming an action sequence. The studio has given you 500'000 dollars in budget, the top of a building to blow up, and a couple of helicopters. At this point, you feel almost forced to put as much as you can in the scene, even if it has little to do with the plot. Italian directors had the opposite problem. They wanted to put an explosion at the end of their car chase like americans did, and the only thing they had were three cars and a piece of road for the aforementioned car chase. That's when a durector has to get creative, and they did."
Look at Halloween. John Carpenter had such a low budget, he had to be creative with the limited resources he had to work with. Most of the actors wore their own clothes and he had a short space of time to shoot it all. To top it off, he had to write the music because he ran out of money to pay a film scorer. But the music he ended up writing is one of the most iconic movie themes ever written. After all that the film became a huge hit. Just goes show that a low budget doesn't mean you have to sacrifice quality. George Lucas had a limited budget for Star Wars but he made the most of what he had to work with. There are films that flopped that had massive budgets. Limitations test your creativity.
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This reminds of the praise I heard towards the italian subgenre "poliziottesco" from the 70s, deemed superior to the american crime thrillers of that time since they were able to rival the tension and action scenes of Hollywood with a fraction of the budget.
Federico Frusciante, an italian movie expert, made an example along these lines:
"Let's say that you're filming an action sequence. The studio has given you 500'000 dollars in budget, the top of a building to blow up, and a couple of helicopters. At this point, you feel almost forced to put as much as you can in the scene, even if it has little to do with the plot.
Italian directors had the opposite problem. They wanted to put an explosion at the end of their car chase like americans did, and the only thing they had were three cars and a piece of road for the aforementioned car chase. That's when a durector has to get creative, and they did."
Look at Halloween. John Carpenter had such a low budget, he had to be creative with the limited resources he had to work with. Most of the actors wore their own clothes and he had a short space of time to shoot it all. To top it off, he had to write the music because he ran out of money to pay a film scorer. But the music he ended up writing is one of the most iconic movie themes ever written. After all that the film became a huge hit. Just goes show that a low budget doesn't mean you have to sacrifice quality. George Lucas had a limited budget for Star Wars but he made the most of what he had to work with. There are films that flopped that had massive budgets. Limitations test your creativity.