Freddy

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize is a lovely 30 minute story of a boy on a bike who falls in love with a poster model, sees her, follows her to the park and they fall in love. no script just music and lyrics. Given that short precis, if that was pushed to a film producer would it get made today.
TV maybe but cinema?

Death in Venice anybody?
regards
Freddy

The world wags on.

Gibbie

Great idea for a movie concept. A longer version was tried with Umbrellas of Cherbourg in early 60s.

But, with today's bread and circuses movie culture, it would be hard to get the moguls to support a project that wasn't Colliseum in nature.
I think it's called Death in Hollywood.

Nevertheless...

DAVID RAYNER

Les Bicyclettes de Belsize was made at a time (1968 or so) when the cinema industry in this country was still very different to what it is today. In those days, there were still programmes that consisted of a feature, a supporting feature and shorts and cartoons. I haven't been to the pictures for some time, but I am told that you only get one film for your money now and that's it....except for endless adverts and so called "trailers", which are completely different in style and quality to the trailers of forty years ago.

Death in Venice is a beautifully made, high quality film that would appeal mainly to those of a homosexual disposition who could all too readily identify with the main character's unrequited love for a beautiful young boy. But, as it contains no computer graphic special effects or people continually running away from explosions and doesn't have the likes of Bruce Willis jumping off a building in a torn sweatshirt, firing a machine gun and shouting "Welcome to the party, pal!" , I'm afraid it would be difficult to get a major studio to back it these days. Modern audiences have long been made used to accepting far less than the best that the cinema is capable of offering them. In fact, it's been dumbed down considerably in the past three decades and is now nearly as bad as modern television, which is a shame.

Pam1927

That was a depressing read, David... and I agree with every word of it! frown

It's nice to be nice...