the Inverse Cost and Quality Law — commerce hollowing the auteur, against J.O. Incandenza's anti-commercial cinema

echoes

Early text: "the larger a movie's budget is, the shittier that movie is going to be"; and there is "no quicker or more efficient way to kill what is interesting and original about an interesting, original young director than to give that director a huge budget and lavish F/X resources." [¶8, ¶15]
IJ echo: James O. Incandenza's filmography — the "anti-confluential", conceptual, deliberately un-commercial cinema catalogued in the endnote (n.24), and the founding-of-E.T.A. / auteur backstory (scene 020); the novel's final Entertainment is the anti-commercial art object taken to a terminal extreme.
Weight: shared-preoccupation