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Originally posted by PersonasNonGrata
Purely because of the impact it had and the impact it will forever have on film.
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Let's not forget another man who has had a rather large impact on Hollywood but has not been mentioned here.
The king of the b movie, Roger Corman.
This is the man who brought us Jack Nicholson, Robert Deniro, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Robert Towne Bruce Dern, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard, John Sayles, Gale Anne Hurd and James Cameron the list goes on.
These people might have made it in the biz but it was Corman who gave them their career starts and set them on their way.
The guy was a fucking genius. Who else would go and buy a japanese film dub it in english shoot some scenes with Raymond Burr in an office talking into a microphone and edit that in release it in the United States and create a pop culture icon....that was fucking GODZILLA...and let's not forget Night Of The Living Dead.
Sure Welles probably inspired even Corman to be an independent film maker but who inspired Welles' independence?
Possibly such people as Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin who had the balls to form their own studio United Artists in order to have creative control over their own films.
I would just like to add another film to the list here which I believe is really inspirational.
The movie is about a guy who is a complete fuck up but had the balls to not only have a vision but to actively pursue the succes of that vision.
The movie...ED WOOD.
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