The Spectacular in Independent Films

The film transcends the weak dialogue because we're really connected to this visual spectacle. A beautifully written scene can lift something that doesn't look beautiful, but it's really hard to capture a beautifully written scene in a trailer where you're only seeing little clips of it. So if you're making an independent film, I want you to think about the spectacle. If you're writing a movie like Saw, right? Everybody talks about Saw as a great example of a little contained horror film that was shot on No Money and made so much money. But they forget to mention that it looked freaking beautiful. Or if you look at a movie like Brick, which is literally shot on one sound stage