Taste

The Sign Ups are coming in on the Oscar and Jim community. This is massively encouraging because it gives us a potential core audience for the film. If we can get people signing up to watch the film - and they like it (two quite big ifs there) - they could, conceivably tell their friends (another one) and we are on our way to distributing the thing without the apparatus (or the cost) of a traditional ad and PR campaign. (I see the Film Council just awarded The Hunger £250,000 for exactly this kind of thing http://www.businessofcinema.com/news.php?newsid=10388).

Also encouraging is, frankly, the sheer goddamn calibre of film-goer we are getting in. Now, we have to be a bit careful (if you ask someone in the street what their favourite book is, they are more likely to say ‘War and Peace’ than ‘The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Collection’.) Nevertheless when we ask the question about films, we get some striking replies. All human life and taste is here, from ‘The Deerhunter’ to ‘Weekend at Bernie’s 2’. There a strong classic element ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’ ‘The Godfather’ ‘Some Like it Hot’ and even a bit of a Paris thing going on ‘Les Amants du Pont Neuf’ and ‘Paris Je t’aime’ - spotting the Pere Lachaise section there, perhaps.

Point is there is a gigantic multiplicity of taste - absolutely what anyone hopes for and depends upon when they set out to make something. My favourite among the O&J community favourites? Probably ‘Fargo’. Maybe ‘Goodfellas’. Possibly ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ (but no ‘Confessions of Dangerous Mind’? Now there’s a good film…)

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