i dont disagree with anything you are saying. i just feel its a little unfair to talk about the film as if its equal to other indie films. most indie filmmakers are not already established youtuber superstars. and besides its based on a popular video game.
If anything, markiplier’s popularity as a YouTuber plus his genre purity was a match made in heaven for this movie. This is essentially the indie film dream of getting an A list celebrity plus free marketing.
It kind of just reinforces the Hollywood system of sticking to successful actors for lead roles, while at the same risks collapsing that system by seeding the precedent of flipping famous influencers into actors for their built-in marketing.
If only all the unknown film makers who have spent their lives studying and making independent films that no one has heard of just made a YouTube channel 15 years ago to play video games instead. Sure, they wouldn’t have spent thousands of hours honing their craft, but they’d have a captive audience to inflate force the success of anything they do, no matter how bad it is!
i dont disagree with anything you are saying. i just feel its a little unfair to talk about the film as if its equal to other indie films. most indie filmmakers are not already established youtuber superstars. and besides its based on a popular video game.
If anything, markiplier’s popularity as a YouTuber plus his genre purity was a match made in heaven for this movie. This is essentially the indie film dream of getting an A list celebrity plus free marketing.
It kind of just reinforces the Hollywood system of sticking to successful actors for lead roles, while at the same risks collapsing that system by seeding the precedent of flipping famous influencers into actors for their built-in marketing.
If only all the unknown film makers who have spent their lives studying and making independent films that no one has heard of just made a YouTube channel 15 years ago to play video games instead. Sure, they wouldn’t have spent thousands of hours honing their craft, but they’d have a captive audience to inflate force the success of anything they do, no matter how bad it is!