In hindsight this is always easy to say. But film was (and still is) a money-intensive art. And like usual in the arts the people with the vision are not the pe

In hindsight this is always easy to say. But film was (and still is) a money-intensive art. And like usual in the arts the people with the vision are not the people the money. When Godard started out there was not a lot of money and infrastructure for the type of films people like him wanted to make. Yet someone like him had to witness that what was in bis eyes utter trash had became budgets he could only dream of. On top of that his film making was certainly interwoven with the upcoming 68 counter culture and has to be seen as the effort of an generation to break with the existing tradition. Typically what film makers like him tried to reach was not that all films should be like his, but that there is the chance for something else to exist than cheap, dumb entertainment and that film makers can also try to make actual art with their works without always having to do a target market analysis.