Winter's Bone Christmas Essay
How far does the knowledge of the production process encourage a constant shift between passive and active spectatorship ? (829 Words) Independent films are very different from the main stream films that we see in day-to-day life. For example, Marvel films would be classified as mainstream as they attract a huge audience from all around the world and are made to create profit, whereas independent films are made to convey certain messages and ideas, ones that people might think are abstract or different from normal life. They often do not have a huge budget to create the film, and will use non-actors because it’s cheaper and can be used to convey a sense of realism within the film. ‘Winter’s Bone’ does just this; because it is an independent film, there are a lot of people within the film who are actually not actors at all, and instead they just live in a community like that, out in the middle of nowhere with no real communication to the rest of the world. The film, made in 20