The new Hollywood and Independent film making

(Film Art by Bordwell and Thompson)

The New Hollywood

With movies in the 1960s such as The Sound of Music and Dr. Zhivago, Hollywood rose to fame and earned large amounts of profit. However, financial problems hindered the success of some Hollywood firms making expensive studio projects failed miserably. In order to cope up with this, some producers made films for younger audience showing campus revolution and unorthodox lifestyles. But, it was a failure at the box office. And so a movement was made by film school directors to somehow uplift the ongoing crisis at that time. Directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin, Steven Spielbergs, John Carpenters, George Lucas, Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese, made films that are aimed at a broader audience. These movie brats became well-known in producing such great films. It was the era of the beginning of the new Hollywood.

Some of the films that were successful in the 1970s were as follows:

The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola (1972)

The Exorcist by William Friedkin (1973)

Jaws By Steven Spielberg (1975)

The Halloween by John Carpenters (1978)

American Graffiti by George Lucas (1973)

Star Wars by George Lucas (1977)

Obsession by Brian De Palma (1976)

Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese (1976)

Independent Film making

Lucas and Spielberg became the most successful directors among these movie brats. Another generation of younger directors came in to an independent film making such as James Cameron, Tim Burton, Robert Zemackis and many others. Many of successful films of the 1990s were directed by Spielberg, De Palma and Lucas. Until now movies such as Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, Forest Gump and Titanic are still famous today.