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Subject: Controversies
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tazdevil 4.02.18 - 12:00am
A friend of mine studying media is writing an essay on the role of controversies in film promotion, and he needs valuable input. I've already shared my views with him, but I still wanted to post it on here though to see what people think about it and know their opinions. So what do y'all think?

Let's say a film mocked a religion or something and there's a massive controversy about it, and a good chance that it may lead to violence to happen at the cinemas - will that make people go watch it or avoid it? Do controversies help or hurt the films? * +

slick_01 4.02.18 - 12:05am
Sometimes such controversies eventually attract more of an audience to go see that movie etc which in turn equals more revenue...it all depends how extreme the marketing hype is * +

3mel 4.02.18 - 12:11am
what is this Bollywood film that has people getting angry just recently, I watched a news article about it but still couldn't figure out why people were upset ?

think the last temptation of Christ was pretty controversial when it came out. luckily Christians don't usually kill people over offences taken, unless it's abortion (super ironically). * +

mikeymk 4.02.18 - 01:21am
Beats not speaking up about it. How many times have you seen ''Based on a true story'' ..?

That basically means the film is re-writing history how the people want it bent. It's well-known that Hollywood has done this on a huge scale to try and re-educate the world into thinking America has played a more positive role throughout history, but of course it happens the world over. * +

3mel 4.02.18 - 01:42am
that's usually done to make a story more dramatic or audience appealing because it'll sell more tickets. * +

mikeymk 4.02.18 - 01:49am
So does appeasing your audience with a little local pride. And naturally adding a little drama spices things up, people love that shit. * +

3mel 4.02.18 - 02:19am
the international film market is more important to Hollywood these days than the domestic one. plus jingoistic films tend to be shiite anyway, buyer beware and all that. * +

tazdevil 4.02.18 - 05:30am

@ slick_01 - 4.02.18 - 12:05am
Sometimes such controversies eventually attract more of an audience to go see that movie etc which in turn equals more revenue...it all depends how extreme the marketing hype is

That's exactly what I told my friend

The threats only intensify the interest and curiosity. It makes people curious enough to go watch a film they otherwise wouldn't have thought about watching. * +