No matter how profound, inspiring, or thought provoking a Scottish production may be, I fear it will never be as successful as a Hollywood blockbuster.
This as you may be saying to yourself, is obvious, but WHY is it?
The mind numbing budgets that studios such as Universal can throw around to make these loud, brash, a'woopin' and a'hollarin' films a certain success finacially. The lottery funding used to create many Scottish films is barely enough to cover the cost of attempting to make Sarah Jessica Parker look half decent which even then is pushing it...
Unfortunately, there just isnt the market overseas in my opinion for films made in Scotland, which is a shame because there is still the widespread perception, certainly that i have experienced, that we are all representative of the picture on the front of a shortbread tin.
I suppose the moral of this blog is to help a brother out and go see Scottish films!
Michael x
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