{"id":30305,"date":"2019-02-02T05:22:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T10:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=30305"},"modified":"2019-02-02T05:22:30","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T10:22:30","slug":"real-artists-2017-final-girls-berlin-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/02\/real-artists-2017-final-girls-berlin-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Artists (2017) [Final Girls Berlin Film Festival]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/real_artists.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/real_artists.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/real_artists.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/real_artists-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/real_artists-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>\u201cObsessions\u201d Shorts Block<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director Cameo Wood, and co-writer Ken Liu\u2019s \u201cReal Artists\u201d is a slick bit of satire that folks annoyed by the dominance of certain Hollywood studios might love. In fact, \u201cReal Artists\u201d is a great movie regardless, as it explores the idea of actual art, and what separates actual art from homogenized products for the masses. After her edit of a big studio\u2019s animated movie goes viral, artist Sophia Baker is called in for an interview with a very popular and dominant animation studio.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The somewhat omnipotent organization is very eager to bring her on board as an animator and producer of animated entertainment for the masses. But as Sophia Baker realizes she\u2019s about to be brought in to the fold of probably the most popular animation studio in the world, she learns that there\u2019s so much more to the studio than anyone knows. \u201cReal Artists\u201d has its intentions firmly planted in its narrative, and I loved the scathing albeit creepy bit of satire that unfolded. I enjoyed how Wood turns the family studio in to a creepy monolith, but also how their appeal is based more on manipulating emotions down to a pure science rather than producing quality entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Director Wood manages to squeeze in as much winks and jabs at the intended target as possible, even sneaking in various sight gags in the foreground and background. I had a nice giggle as Sophia and her potential boss Anna converse in front of a promotional poster with a red and yellow exclamation point entitled \u201cThe Superlatives.\u201d Cameo Wood\u2019s short is a clever and sharp piece of social commentary about the concept of creating and art, all the while creating an unsuspecting villain we\u2019d never see sneaking up on us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Final Girls Berlin Film Festival runs every year from January 31<sup>st<\/sup> to February 3<sup>rd<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cObsessions\u201d Shorts Block Director Cameo Wood, and co-writer Ken Liu\u2019s \u201cReal Artists\u201d is a slick bit of satire that folks annoyed by the dominance of certain Hollywood studios might love. In fact, \u201cReal Artists\u201d is a great movie regardless, as it explores the idea of actual art, and what separates actual art from homogenized products [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[501,898,906,938,1087],"class_list":["post-30305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-indie-film","tag-satire","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30307,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30305\/revisions\/30307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}