Tuesday April 17, 2018
Aaron gleason explains why Q Quiet Place Might be an Instant classic.
Not many movie reviews go as far as comparing the ethical theories of Hobbs and Locke but this one does.
No wonder then that Gleason has an MA i philosophy of religion from Talbot University. 
But that is not my focus here.
I cited Clint as a cost accountant in just the second month of this blog back on Oct. 4, 2006.
When I began this blog and was teaching managerial accounting, I used Producer Director Clint Eastwood as an example.
of budgetary excellence. While Clint is popular with the audience he is really popular with the studios. His hEvery Which Way but Looose was the second biggest grossing film Universal had at the time
The film took in $90 M but costing a mere $5 million. Clint always comes in on budget and on time.
Perhaps this can be traced to his early experience in the TV series Rawhide. Television with its weekly requirement of a new show a week, is fast and low cost.
After gaining fame in Italian produced Spaghetti Westerns, he returned to do a few Hollywood westerns. But his directorial debut was a bit of a horror film itself.
Play Misty for Me was estimated to have cost less than $1 M but grossed about $10 M, ticket prices were a lot lower then. It was the story of a stalking woman out to terrorize a DJ and his newer girl friend. 
This was the first production of his new Malpaso company. He never looked back and has only had one flop at the box office, The Beguiled.
Now another former TV player, John Krasinski, is directing A Quiet Place. He cast himself and his real wife in the lead roles. The film cost $17 M but grossed $50 M the first weekend. this is how one gets attention in Hollywood.
Summarizing the similarities
Both men began in television learning 'lean production methods'
Both men cast their real life wives in their movies
Both men started with relatively low budget, tightly scripted projects
Both came in on time and budget
Each had a terrorizing or terrifying theme for their first movie
Managerial accounting is all about efficiency. Successful movie making is much the same way, on time, on budget, a simple idea made unique.
Professor Elam 
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