Let’s start with the name: Film school.
Film? Seriously?
It’s right there in the title — already behind the curve.
But let’s park that for now.
If you work in the legacy business long enough, someone will corner you at a wedding or a kid’s soccer game and ask: “Should my kid go to film school?”
The answer was always “Maybe” ten years ago. Now?
Film schools know they have challenges. I hear it from deans, professors, students. I love these places. I’m not here to write their obituary just the opposite I’m rooting for them to thrive. I don’t know how admissions are going these days but if the students who graduate aren’t prepared for the world we are living in that’s going to catch up to them. And fast.
To adapt they might have to change in ways they’re not built for right now.
The old debate — worth it or not — has been running since the first graduating class. Scorsese credits NYU. Paul Thomas Anderson bailed from that school after two days. Same industry, opposite roads.
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