"I love the idea of not being an independent filmmaker. I've liked working within the system. And I've admired a lot of older directors who were sort of 'directors for hire.' Like Victor Flemming was in a contract all those years to metro and Selznick and Mayer . . . he made Captains courageous. And you know his most famous films: Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind." - Steven Spielberg, producer/director
The Hollywood film industry was prominent during the mid 1960s. Blockbusters such as The Sound of Music (1965) and Dr. Zhivago (1965) were providing huge profits. But then by 1969, Hollywood companies had a huge financial loss. The producers tried to recover and they centered on the youth but this strategy wasn't enough so it failed.
In this time, the movie brats emerged because of their successful films. These movie brats were Francis Coppola, William Friedkin, Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, George Lucas, Brian de Palma, and Martin Scorsese. They helped uplift the the Hollywood film industry through their blockbuster films. Most of these movie brats had gone to film school to study how to master productions, and to learn the film aesthetics and history. They produced some personal and highly self-conscious films. The movie brats worked in traditional genres but also tried to give it a twist by adding some autobiographical coloring. Many films that the young directors make are inspired by the old Hollywood style. They were also inspired by European tradition. Because of this influence, Coppola made his best-known film inspired by the European tradition, The Conversation (1974) which is a mystery story.
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg became powerful producers when they worked together on the Indiana Jones series and personifying Hollywood's new generation. Fresh new talents were discovered during the 1980s such as James Cameron, Tim Burton, and Robert Zemeckis, On 1990s many successful films from both successive waves of directors of the Hollywood Renaissance came. These are Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993), De Plama's Mission Impposible (1996), and Lucas's The Phantom Empire (1999), as well as Zemeckis's Forrest Gump (1994), Cameron's Titanic (1997), and Burton's Sleepy Hallow (1999). Continuity editing continued and Hollywood's traditional storytelling strategies were added new techniques.
Independent directors of the 1980s and 1990s with narrative construction and the younger studio directors adapted classical convention to modern tastes. And by the end of the 1990s, these trends were surprisingly rising. As the independent films began to rise and get large number of audience, major studios partnered with Miramax and October Films.
At the start of the new century, the new generation created many thrilling Hollywood films. They also introduced the videotape, video games , and the Internet. Same with the new generation's film predecessors, they reshaped the formal and stylistic methods or practices of the classical cinema while making their own creations accessible to the broad audience.
HERE ARE SOME TRAILERS OF THE MOVIES I'VE ALREADY WATCHED :)
Mean Streets
Jurassic Park
Forrest Gump
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