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Too many people subscribe to the indie ideal that spending little money on a movie is 'in and of itself cool,' and that's not true. That's a dangerous misconception.
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What it means
Our interpretation.
This pushes back against the trendy notion that a tiny budget automatically makes a film artistically superior or authentic. The speaker argues that romanticizing cheapness as inherently virtuous is a flawed, even harmful, creative attitude to hold.
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