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Originally posted by Gojira
Well Austin growing up and reading as a guy who was 12 12 14 years old Famous Monsters Magazine and the Monster Times I can tell you this back in the late 60s early to mid 70s I would see what guys like Steve Speilberg George Lucas Steveen King Rick Baker Joe Dante would write in and ask how to make a movie certain way like applying make up a certain way or how to make special effects etc. And they wanted to learn how to become better film makers and make money. Some of these guys succeeded. Some started out as independent film makers that worked real hard and who got a chance at making a studio movie. Then they made some good movies. The bottom line is no film maker will make a movie out of his own pocket and let people see it for free. They want to make a profit so they can make a 2nd and 3rd movie. Now believe me back in 1992 there was an awesome remake of Bram Stokers novel Dracula and in 1958 Hammer studios bought the rights of Dracula and a few other of Universals monster to remake those movies. And back in 1931 Universal bought the rights of Dracula to remake the movie from Florence Stoker. The 2 Dracula movies that were made before in Russia 1920 and Hungry 1921 were made without the permission of Florence and Florence stopped a 3rd Dracula movie from being made without her permission in 1922 that movie became Nosferatu instead. And I am sure Universal obtained the rights to remake Frankenstien in 1931 after all Frankenstien had been made twice before in 1910 & 1915. Werewolf movies were not really remakes someone would make a Werewolf movie then someone else made their own and so on all diffrent storys about Werewolfs. The same might be said for Mummy movies except when Hammer remade the old Universal movies. Mary Shelleys Frankenstien movie in 1994 is out standing and of course its a remake of Shelleys famous novel imo its better than Universals 1931 movie. I think Wes Cravens movie The Hills have Eyes back in 1977 is pretty good. If you ask guys like Rick Baker where he learned how to do what he does he will tell you from a guy in NY who use to work on the old horror movies. Phil Tippot of course learned spfx and stop motion by studdying Ray Harryhausen Ray learned from willis O brian about stopmotion effects and the guy who invented stopmotion was Georges Melies. If you look at how each person devolops the art a little better than the person who invented itthen thats a good thing because now better movies can be made. I think the guy who directed TCM in 1974 was Tobe Hooper he also directed the movie Polterguist. Believe me when Tobe was offerd to direct that movie Polterguist he didnt say no and he made a damn good movie. It made lots of money enough to warrent making a sequel. I dont see fans complaining about how Tobe made it for the money do you?
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no offence .. but if you could start using paragraphs or something on a post this long ... i'd start reading them ..