[Steely Tom]

When I was growing up, Hollywood made movies that were either (a) based on things that were going on at the time, or in recent history, or (b) about things that could be seen as allegory for current events or recent history.

Examples of the first category:

• The Apartment
• Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
• The Long, Hot Summer
• Badlands
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• The French Connection
• Dirty Harry
• Love Story
• The Godfather
• The Deer Hunter
• Taxi Driver
• The Graduate
• Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
• The Party
• 10

Examples of the second category:

• Bonnie and Clyde
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• The Getaway
• The Sting
• Romeo and Juliet

Those examples are just off the top of my head. There are many I've missed, of course.

These days, America is faced by far more dangerous events, trends, and phenomena, but no movie is made about any of them. No movie can be made about any of them. All these dangerous things are protected by a thick shield of virtue-signaling and reality denial.

Someone who figures out how to produce movies about these things will get rich. The movies will have to be passed from hand to hand, like Samizdat in the USSR, but sooner or later it will happen.

I guess the payment model is probably one of the things that's preventing movies of this type from being made. Potential investors are probably out there, but they can't figure out how to get their money back.

So as a result we get rehashes of old comic book themes and teen coming-of-age movies no one wants to see.

[trisham]

Well said.

[thoughtomator]

> Someone who figures out how to produce movies about these things will get rich.

It’s called anime and it’s a pretty good business in Japan.

[x]

When I was growing up, Hollywood made movies that were either (a) based on things that were going on at the time, or in recent history, or (b) about things that could be seen as allegory for current events or recent history.

Adults went to the movies back then and don't now.

Also audiences got tired of the Seventies cynicism and wanted something to cheer about.

Even film makers may have gotten a little tired of every movie trying to make a political comment.

But there still are a lot of good, small dramas being made, as well as films with social or political messages if that's what you want.

They just don't get the headlines or pull in the big audiences and the big bucks.