Films produced by companies other than Miramax have slowly chipped away at Miramax’s dominance. However, some may argue that Miramax’s films, with all their success, can no longer be classified as independent films. Even in 1997, when the ultimate industry movie, Titanic, won Best Picture and Best Director, Miramax’s Good Will Hunting earned a Best Picture nomination and won Best Original Screenplay. But in the end, Miramax’s Shakespeare in Love reigned at the Oscars. The competitions intensified last year when the supposed juggernaut of movies, Saving Private Ryan was supposed to take all the statuettes home for the industry. Shine, Fargo, Secrets and Lies, and The English Patient, which won the award, were entered in the same category. The competition went to new heights in1996, when only one mega-hit, Jerry Maguire, received a Best Picture nomination. The competition between independent films and blockbuster movies has been waged during the Academy Awards since 1993.
Their small budgets allow the scriptwriters and director to take more risks, which is why you never know what to expect when viewing an independent film. These films are not made with the intention of making money. Independent films don’t restrict their creativity to fit into the blockbuster formula. In order to make their money back, these blockbusters often rely on proven plot formulas and the elements of familiarity that they think people will want to see again. They contain big stars and big special effects that often led to an inflated budget. Recently, movies were made with the pure intention of making a profit, often a substantial one. The movement forced people to change their perceptions of motion pictures. The more people who saw the independent films, the more that were made, and soon by companies other than simply Miramax. Miramax’s campaigning pushed these films toward nominations, and the nominations brought more people to see them, if not in the theaters, on video. The nominations of the latter films brought the independent cinema into the forefront of the national conscience of both the critics and the public. In the last half-dozen years, they have doled out films such as Shine, Sense and Sensibility, Good Will Hunting, Pulp Fiction and The Piano. Through incredible amounts of campaigning and promotion, the company is responsible for getting these films the credit they deserve. No other Hollywood production and distribution company can claim that. Miramax has had at least one film in contention for Best Picture for the past six years running. That changed with the other two men responsible for this trend, Max and Harvey Weinstein, the founders and co-chairmen of Miramax films. The highest possible award for films, the Oscar, was a long way off for independent films. However, prestige and prominence among the motion picture industry was still required. He brought independent films to the masses. As the writer and director of Reservoir Dogs, as well as a supporting actor in the film, his debut work brought an incredible breath of fresh air into an industry that was sorely lacking in creativity.
The first is the creative force behind the film that started the movement, Quentin Tarantino. Three men are largely credited with this rise of independent cinema. The actors in independent movies often don’t have the movie-star looks. The main characters’ reactions to the conflicts they encountered seemed truer to life and more realistic than the emotions of the huge stars that appeared in blockbusters. Often their plots contained quirky elements, things not usually encountered in mainstream cinema. In the first years of the movement, during the early to mid- 1990s, the easiest way to describe an independent film was its scale – small budgets, small production companies such as Lion’s Gate and even smaller stars.Ĭontent also defined these films. What exactly is independent cinema, and can it be defined? Although the nature of its definition is constantly changing, certain criteria can categorize a film as independent. The film is Reservoir Dogs, and the movement it founded brought on the rise of independent cinema.ĭespite its success, questions about independent films linger.
Disturbingly realistic and told in an engaging, non-linear style, independent films spread like wildfire through word of mouth and positive critical reviews. It started in 1992, with a small-time, fundamentally well-told story of a bungled robbery.
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