Is a film in Hollywood purely a commercial commodity?

Everyone has seen a Hollywood movie and as soon as someone says Hollywood you associate it with huge stars, over the top finale , but have you ever thought of the money it makes or how much it cost.?

After watching a documentary on Hollywood it made me realise the process and the money that goes into a single Hollywood movie , in order to call a Hollywood movie to be successful it has to bring in over 300 million!

A movie first starts with a story, the creators have to sell a good quality pitch to get the money for the writers to come up with a script. 50% of Hollywood movies story lines comes from books and cartoon, this gives more of a chance of success because there is a ready made audience. Shrek is a great example of a hidden book from the library turned into a Hollywood top box office movie. Choosing a story book to base the film it gives the producers a high percentage that it will be a success. Knowing that a good Hollywood films are out numbered by the amount have failed causes the producers not to dare outside the box. With so much money riding on one film they stick to the conventions of a Hollywood film that they know will work. The creators of fight club did dare to go out the box however it was slated that it wasn’t a “Hollywood film” and was very controversial, but isn’t it better to make something different to shock the audience? Well in this case the audience didn’t take to the idea and Fight Club didn’t make a lot of money, however over time I think Fight Club has become more successful.

Actors, they are mainly what persuade a person to a film, and Hollywood films are full of the hottest stars that are out at the time. Many films will get the go ahead if they know that top Actors are in on the film. However new stars will sometimes appear in movies, which will catapult them to success just because they starred in a Hollywood movie, “spotting tomorrow stars for today is part of Hollywood” a quote from the documentary.

Hollywood films no doubt make good quality films, and by the rating they are loved by the public. We can rely on Hollywood to have the actors, gripping story lines and explosions. Also we can all relate in having watched a big Hollywood film. It causes discussion, and appear on shows like “the top 50 film you should see before you die”. So all that hard work does pay off.

In answer to the question I honesty think that Hollywood films are commercial commodity, success is rated on money not on the real, gritty truth of society that British low budget films gives to a film. The money poured into this films to create supposedly world we are living ,but how rarely does something explode in real life and ends too perfect with the triumph music over top? £300 million! Just for it to pass just over the bar of success, it seems they a playing around with massive amount of money putting all the CGI’s effects , just to make a film we have sort of seen before. Too much money causes too much failure, in Hollywood failure and success are millimetres away from each other.