Why does Hollywood have to go and Americanise British productions?!
Question: They are doing a film of State of Play, it stars Edward Norton, who I like, but why move it to America? It really annoys me.
And when they make films out of British books but set it in the States.
Answers: They are doing a film of State of Play, it stars Edward Norton, who I like, but why move it to America? It really annoys me.
And when they make films out of British books but set it in the States.
dumbing down
Because they think they're the best country in the world and that nobody can make films like them. Get used to it, it'll never change.
If it was going to be British, they'd just show the BBC Version, which has already been on TV, so who'd pay to see it?
Honey, when the money talks the tough get going...
The like things simple to understand
they run out of ideas of their own so they copy not only british productions but go back to even classic black and whites and copy those as well
maybe consider it a compliment they don't have brilliant original ideas of their own anymore so they look abroad to copy
Film producers are out to make money and to do they they must make it appeal to their largest audience: America. The worst example of this is the remake of the Italian Job.
shortbreadtin: The most influential and most original films ever made are German and French, your country is very good at stealing other people's ideas and spewing out so many remakes and copies that is becomes boring and repetitive.
Edit: They do not care about how the new version appeals to the British or how the original was made, they want to sell it to a larger American audience so they can make more money.
The reasons arent' as cut and dried as many people think. For a start the Hollywood and NY both have enormous capital raising abilities, far more than most British production houses have. Secondly there's outright scipt royalties. If you are the author of a successful work, what are you going to do, Hollywood offers you a million or two, or the BBC for example offers you 150,000.
As for moving the center of the film from the UK to the USA, well that sucks but it's done to ensure bums on seats in the USA. It's a cold hard business decision, nothing more, nothing less.
Now for a real dig at Hollywood you need to examine the utter crap that is mostly produced there and that has been produced there over the past 20 years or so. Very few really outstanding films have been produced, the real quality work has come out of Europe in particular, along with Asia and even Australia, especially when it comes to character driven works,as opposed to CGI/Special effects driven action drivel that most teenagers and brain dead punters consider to be a quality film.
But why? Mostly because Hollywood has run out of ideas, it's main and long standing writers can only wring out so many boy meets girl, boy and girl have fight and recocille flicks, and so many single handed hero takes on the evil (insert nationality of choice here) and beats all the baddies and gets the gratuitious damsel at the end type flicks or couple have divorce and so on films. Thanks to the incredibly high fees demanded by many of the alleged top actors (most can't act to save their lives, just see how many fail on stage). there is little budget left over for employing a high quality ensemble of character actors, so films now don't have sub plots and characters are used to simply stage the next scene by the mega-star. It's sad but it's how it's become.
Real innovation on the other hand requires less formula writing, risk taking and superb character actors, all of which in recent years have been in short supply in Hollywood.
America is large portion of the market - Americans are only interested in other Americans......If there is a British actor in an American movie they are usually a villain.