harder they come

In order to understand the nature of Third World cinema one must understand the reciprocal which is the Hollywood movie machine where more movies are made then in any other place in the world. The Hollywood film industry has been thriving for over a hundred years. The filmmaking in other countries is in many ways always playing catch up to the Hollywood machine. On other accounts such as Armes the Third World is a distinct and beautiful form artistic media separate from anything Hollywood offers to the world. The reason for film in many parts of the world are so removed from Hollywood movie making standards that most people from the west for the most part cannot comprehend the Third World¡¯s vast emerging cinema. The conflicts between the films that come out of Hollywood and the films that come out of the third world are so vast that any such comparisons will never suffice.
Armes speaks in great depth about parallels he sees engendered by economics, culture, history, and ideolo...