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Alan_Shore posted:That guy who was going to do Big Trouble In Little China better get his rear end into gear! A couple years ago I decided to take my "film history 100B" class over the summer, and we actually watched Big Trouble in Little China, so I wasn't going to miss a chance to write about it, but it was(I compared it to North by Northwest), and my original angle was going to be "why did one succeed and why did one fail" which was complicated by the fact that BTiLC was a success on the home market. While writing it became clear that it was going to be a major research project to write such an essay, because the causes were less based on film quality and content and more based on the differences in the way that Hollywood marketed films, so I backed off since it was only supposed to be a 3 1/2 page essay that was our only paper for the class that was only assigned to us because the professor suddenly remembered there was a writing requirement for the class and I only had one day to do it on a night I worked, so I opted for the easy route and just compared and contrasted. But basically BTiLC got jobbed because it was a really difficult movie to explain to the theater audience at the time because it was so different from what was being released, and it thumbed its nose at most of the Hollywood tropes at the time, and referenced back to movies that even a cinema-going audience would have challenges being familiar with prior to the VHS age. Said VHS age opened up a lot of doors because audiences have always been more adventurous/experimental when it comes to rentals, and word of mouth buzz was more influential, and repeated viewings were more realistic, as was gaining some familiarity with the material behind BTiLC. So the film was a massive success in VHS because it didn't need Hollywood at that point.
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