In a New Yorker article, entitled "Gross Points - Is the blockbuster the end of cinema?", Louis Menand explores big movies:
The history of Hollywood is a comic routine of bad guesses, unintended outcomes and pure luck. Half of the failures were well-intentioned, and half of the successes were, by ordinary standards of fairness and decency, undeserved. People do get rich making movies, more often than not, they’re the wrong people That’s why moviemaking is so much fun to read about. Unless, of course, it’s your money.
