Hollywood's primary objective in Europe following the end of WWII was to make each nation's private industry powerful enough to uphold the large-scale spread of American films. The Italian Neorealist filmmakers often used non-actors in central roles, in the manner of Soviet Montage. After World War II, times began to shift. Before the war, Italy was one of the most productive and prominent filmmaking countries. They specialized in large budget epic films, with enormous sets and thousands of actors. But during the war, Italy was occupied by the Germans, then the Americans, and was pretty much torn up by all the fighting. After the war, there weren't any available studios, the big-name actors had all left, and there was very little money for film equipment. Filmmakers took their work to the streets and made simple stories about the struggles of everyday people. Films were shot on already existing locations. No studios or sets were included. Stories typically had open endings. They were not tragedies where everyone dies and not a successful conclusion where they achieve their goals. It usually was a frustrating ending where we don't know what's going to happen. …show more content…
European modernist films promoted open-ended narratives, in which central plot lines were left unresolved. Crews on Neorealist films could shoot on location and dub in dialogue later. The influence of French Impressionism and German Expressionism was often evident in Italian Neorealist films' representation of subjective reality. The new realism was not a complete break with the past. Its roots went deep, to the work of directors in Italy and beyond which, over preceding decades, had prefigured the themes and formal innovation of a style that would become one of the cinema's most influential