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What happened to all the previous posts?


There was a lot of viewers posts, not an overwhelming number, grant you, but still two or three pages worth. But imdb did a ax job and I now see only two posts. There were a lot of interesting comments on this movie.

First of all, I LIKE this movie, and just to prove it, I'm really not into humor satires, ie, 'mockumentary', as FESTIVAL IN CANNES was often labeled. In other words, the movie is filmed as if it were a 'documentary' but is really a blend of comedy, satire, and subversive ridicule at the behind-the-scenes, byzantine double-dealings of the film industry at the executive and actor level. The people who wrote, produced, and directed this movie wanted to make fun of themselves and the film entertainment industry while offering laymen like us a glimpse into the backroom politics, shrouded in secrecy and high speed negotiations. Something tells me real life is much more darker and tense than the movie depicted. It was packaged as comedy but watching this movie teaches us something about what goes on beforehand in negotiating a movie, long before filming begins. What we see takes place one to two years before a proposed film hits the theaters. It's fascinating and entertaining.

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