Final Essay: The supremacy of American cinema

The cinema became in the 20th century the art form most widespread, largely supplanting the painting and reading, theater and opera. Each year billions of spectators flock to the theaters to enjoy a time of dreams and get out of the ordinary. All social classes, all ages, all nationalities are represented. Movie is much more than just entertainment.
As one writer said cinema is an industry where competition is present, and where the race for best film to reach the largest audience founded. Americans have quickly understood. Indeed, the commercial aspect soon became a target and a constraint.
Better than any other country, the United States were able to make movies and dream objects of fascination, and the film industry is partly to conquer his audience in the U.S. first, then without any border nor come to limit its ambitions. American cinema has a global success although it is criticized. Fascination and repulsion are mixed in most people. Ways to attract the audience are made available. For example, the Chronicle movie that will make its release in March was the subject of an awesome campaign in the streets of NY. Residents could see men flying through the air, enough to encourage people to go see this film in theaters.
The film history begins with an innovation of the late 19th century, which helped many inventors. Initially uncertain prospects of curiosity, this discovery have gradually revolutionized the entertainment world. Then Hollywood movies has no complex to the cinema industry a profit-oriented, which requires significant attention to the tastes and expectations of the public the widest and most popular, which is generally not the design of the art, they have cultural backgrounds.
Hyperbolic movies often experience costly business failures: Tora! Tora! Tora! , The extravagant Doctor Dolittle,… The years 1970 to 2000 have revived the days of genres in decline in the old Hollywood declining. The slather flick, fed by independent filmmakers, has returned with The Exorcist, Halloween, Night of masks, Friday 13th or Evil Dead, ... The musical characteristics of early talkies, regenerate new forms: The Saturday Night Fever, Staying Alive, Grease, and more recently Flashdance and Moulin Rouge. Where did the success come? Techniques used to create movies truly a hero for the stars turn into celebrity, and, ultimately, lead to identification between the viewer and the protagonist of the film. In addition, Hollywood has created a cultural reference not only for film buffs, but also for the general population in the United States and elsewhere. This has created a strong cast of rising costs, and now some players receive 20 to 30 million dollars per film.
The happy ending is an essential feature of Hollywood, and probably explains in part its success for all audiences. Unlike other arts, unlike other countries, Hollywood’s movie is for all audiences, without limit intellectual development or national cultural identity.
Today, Hollywood is very dependent on foreign countries for the return of his films, including rising costs makes it vital access to billions of consumers that contribute to the survival of very large productions.
Although other production companies (in India and Bollywood Nollywood in Nigeria) do well, United States remains the most competitive because of it’s the most international.