![]() Night promises that the experience of making TV, with its speedier processes, has affected his subsequent film-making he’s made two more movies since Wayward Pines that he hopes will offer the proof. Matt Dillon with Terrence Howard as Sheriff Arnold Pope. How many people heard, say, Mad Men was a good show? Even networks like Fox are saying, make it pop but make it resonant, make it different.” Now thanks to cable, it’s about resonance. Now in movies, they want as much sugar as possible. You don’t hear whether a movie is good, you hear about how many millions it made. That sort of resonance was more important than marketing. Film used to be about resonance – ‘Jack Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces, Oh my God, that was so good’ – that sort of word of mouth would make the film a success. ![]() “Primarily it was network shows supported by adverts and the most important thing for the detergent people was how many people were watching. “Television was once perceived as a lesser medium,” he says. ![]() It’s why he feels TV is now more of a natural home for him. ![]() Nonetheless, Night feels that the current malign conditions of cinema, in which “everything has to be third act, there’s hardly any first act”, have made things impossible for film-makers. ![]()
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