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\u2018Ever since I was a young boy growing up in the popular area of my town, in Eastern Algeria, I have always had a fascination with the Neighborhood Movie Theater. All those wonderful movies, westerns, actions films, romance, comedies, war films, grasped my attention from the beginning to the end.<\/p>\n
While the film was running on the screen, I was the hero.\u00a0 I was Gary Cooper, Kirk Douglas or Douglas Fairbanks. What was obvious to me:\u00a0 The hero was an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n
Through time, I became aware that every film is a two-folded dream: The dream of the film\u2019s hero to achieve a noble goal and the director\u2018s dream to make this film.<\/p>\n
In the beginning, it was just a single idea of a single man. Then the man became a crowd and the crowd became people and the people achieved the goal: the film as well as the hero\u2019s need in the film. However, this can only be achieved under two things: Freedom and the rule of law.<\/p>\n
Freedom means you control your own life, your work, choose freely your partners, keep and enjoy what you earn.<\/p>\n
Rule of law means you work in an environment of tolerance, security, mutual respect for the lives and property of everyone and fair commercial competition.<\/p>\n
And when this kind of environment becomes available, the inherent contagious process of the hero\u2019s individualist enthusiasm, by its exemplarity, spreads in the mass.<\/p>\n
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We feel then committed to our work, we make it ours, we make it a private matter and its achievement becomes a matter of personal honor. We feel self-responsible and endowed with a mission.<\/p>\n
Almost all the films I was screening pointed, at the end, to this obvious fact:<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0 A successful film is a private endeavor but a collective reward.<\/p>\n
Later on, I became a filmmaker , a screenwriter and a novelist. I know now that successful filmmaking could not be any other thing than a private business because at the beginning, it is a personal idea, a personal challenge.<\/p>\n
The proof, the only place where Cinema has remained strong is Hollywood because it has remained faithful to this credo.<\/p>\n
But, let us look around.<\/p>\n
Does not any human project look like a filmmaking one?<\/p>\n
What if we consider any economic project as a filmmaking project?<\/p>\n
We will have<\/p>\n
the script (The company plan)<\/p>\n
the actors (the workers)<\/p>\n
the technicians (the staff)<\/p>\n
And the Director (the manager).<\/p>\n
As far as a film shooting is an ever-renewed challenge, and considered under this angle, any working day could be experienced as such and why not, in the end, lived as a sheer pleasure and a pure joy. This is what we call endurance.<\/p>\n
But the first one who must experience this feeling should be the director. Then he will have to transfer his enthusiasm to his co-workers.<\/p>\n
And in order to transfer his enthusiasm to his co-workers, the director should have an accurate idea of what he wants and the benefits that his co-workers are due to expect, that creativity will be fully rewarded.<\/p>\n
In this respect, a successful film is just putting intelligence into action, and action is the word that the director utters when he starts shooting his film.<\/p>\n
A successful cinema is just but intelligent business done by private undertaking in the way stated above.<\/p>\n
And this is what, really, every successful film is.<\/p>\n
Putting Intelligence into acts? Action!<\/p>\n
Abdelouahab Hammoudi<\/p>\n
Screenwriter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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