Predicatble plots, canny twists and corny punchlines. There are more than financial reasons to making these movies, producers might not make a killing making these movies, but they certainly don't lose much money - and actors don't mind if they can make a quick buck and add to their portfolio (of already pointless, worthless movies perhaps). There are other reasons though, or so my over-analysis dictates:
People work hard (or don't) in the mindless jobs and most people have bosses that they wouldn't want to see at all, and work they wouldn't want to do at all. So once they get out of work, why would they want to apply their minds? I'm not saying not applying your mind is ok, but it is the reality. "Masala" films (films with predictable and stupid plotlines, for example) are the sure fire way to escape ones real life - the life where girls REALLY don't not give a horses arse, and the life where mr perfect and prince charming are not really the same people (they're generally one or the other). Real life also means responsibility and making ends meet - something people in movies don't really need to do.
Movie goers are happy living a blissfully ignorant life, and while this is an arrogant statement I make, its not untrue. The mass is the mass because they have a blob of mass up in ther temple that just wants to be. They don't care to understand the meaning of life or understand their interests with a different perspective or learn about someone elses life; and they're not to blame - its just how it is.
If a movie can take one away from reality, why would one not sit in and escape away to my dreamland? A ticket - and two hours - is a small price to pay. And of course I'm only talking about the people who aren't loving their life too much to waste it away siting in a worthless movie, consuming content that is barely a constructive addition to their lives.
So here's to the directors, actors and artists who innatey understand this and yet make a killing. And here's to the people who just want to get away.
--Tarun Betala | +91 897 656 1640 | BBPin 251ED1FC
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