Posted on 07/18/2023 9:52:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hollywood once supported America and family values; it’s now antithetical to them. This means that many Americans are rooting for its collapse during a writers’ and actors’ strike over an industry change as significant and destructive as the advent of the car was to carriage makers.
I’m a huge fan of pre-1960s movies, and I know a fair amount about the history of Hollywood. In Hollywood’s early years, the executives behind it were almost entirely Jewish immigrants who found a niche in a brand-new industry and filled it.
Throughout the 1920s and into the very early 1930s, movie plots got progressively more sordid. However, in the face of combined pressure from consumers and politicians, Hollywood cleaned up its act, producing family- and America-friendly movies for the next 35 or so years until the social compact started falling apart in the mid-1960s.
Beginning in the mid-1960s, Hollywood turned against America. This was in part because industry followed the Baby Boomers, who were a huge source of funds and who were moving left at warp speed.
The trend accelerated as Hollywood actors, few of whom were credentialed, figured that they could give themselves an intellectual gloss if they followed campus social and political trends. With bully pulpits, publicists, and unbounded egos, they gave unsavory, unwashed, and unhinged academic intellectuals glamor and reach.
Another thing to know about Hollywood, both past and present, is that it is now and has always been a place of unbridled debauchery. Where one finds power and money, one invariably finds pedophilia and other forms of sexual power politics and abuse.
Hollywood used to keep that sordid fact hidden from Americans. Over the last 20 years, though, it’s been marketing deviant sex to them, especially to youngsters.
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One change is streaming video, which pays content creators a fixed price with no downstream benefit if the product becomes popular. The other is AI, which can study the garbage shows that have been produced over the last five or ten years and produce identical garbage. AI writes without ego or pay, making it perfect for the studios, which are guided by leftist politics, pedophilia, immorality, and money.
In response to a disastrous drop in revenue because of these factors, Hollywood writers have been on strike. Recently, the actors joined them. Both are pushing back against the studios. Looking at Hollywood’s content, this is one of those strikes we all wish would see both sides lose.
Having said that, there are many good people who will be hurt if Hollywood implodes. While the public faces of Hollywood are leftist, the people who provide the infrastructure support (all the names that whiz by at warp speed as a show’s credits roll) are often conservative. And, of course, there’s the whole L.A. economy that’s also dependent on Hollywood wealth.
The sad fact is that change always leaves victims in its wake. We never mourn the wheelwrights and carriage makers who fell by the wayside when the car came along because the car was, and is, a much more democratic and effective means of transportation. In the same way, while every good person who loses a job or income if Hollywood fails is a tragedy, the fact is that it’s better for America if Hollywood circa 2023 is no more.
So the next letter added to the pride alphabet will be N
The market is ripe for a streaming channel that produced shows exclusively for Legacy Americans.
Michael Reagan is quoted as saying that Hollywood is one generation ahead of America in its immorality. Where we are now, they were in the early 80’s.
I thought for sure that Snow Brown and the 7 homeless non-binaries signaled a comeback.
That’s good too. The other l heard was Snow Latina and the 7 Portland hipsters.
Probably 50-75% of movies today are actors in front of a “green screen” and all of the back grounds and special effects are edited in.
And then many times costumes are edited in as well.
I think in many cases, the actors have become largely irrelevant. They can likely be done by CGI/ AI.
Then, also, dubbing and syncing all of the lips to the local languages will also look and sound better. And cost 1/2 the price of current offerings.
Oh dream on. Hollywood is fine. All the major sports leagues are fine, unfortunately, but you people just can’t give up your worship of other humans bouncing and throwing balls.
I don’t think we can ever be rid of these libtard scum that pollute the world with their perverse garbage
OH NOES. Where will we be regaled with LGBTQWTF indoctrination and Marvel comic book movies???
It is hard to understand why the writers/actors would strike now.
Hollywood/TV networks have not recovered from the COVID shutdowns and restrictions. They lost a lot of money and new programming. TV schedules had to be padded with reruns and unscripted programming.
A lot more streaming is coming from outside Hollywood. Streaming services probably find it much cheaper, too.
The strike now just seems ill-advised.
Things are on the edge of a major change in how movies are done. I could see a streaming service come up (perhaps from Musk) which would allow creators to rent movies direct to consumers, bypassing the studio system entirely (and incidentally also bypassing the unions).
“I thought for sure that Snow Brown and the 7 homeless non-binaries signaled a comeback.”
If they skip actors and do as CGI..
Then they could also release the exact same movie with different CGI/ Actors. for 0% cost.
They could have a White/ english, Mexican/ Spanish, Asian/ Chinese, Arab/ Farsi.. Etc.. versions. That would probably make MORE money.
On Netflix I watch a lot of non-US stuff, from UK and Korea.
The author makes the point that the existing Hollywood system is being challenged by new licensing as a function of technological advances. This has, of course, happened before: consider the sea change that took place when silent movies became "talkies". We now have CGI replacing location shots and sound stages, and AI-generated scripts loom hugely on the horizon.
But there's more to it than this. Remakes of remakes are bad enough, but when old content is rewritten to conform with a smothering ideological sameness and presented as something creative and daring, you know the well has run dry and they're selling mud as water. Disney is perhaps the worst but by no means the only example. The portfolio of film classics generated by the Soviet Union is mighty slim. There's a reason for that.
“May his days be few; may another take his place” -Psalm 109:8
“Yet we, the opiated people and, especially, our children, nevertheless waste endless hours of our lives staring at the boob tube, mesmerized.”
I don’t know about that. My 13 yr old boy doesn’t watch tv at all streaming or otherwise. Rarely exhibits any interest in movies. Has seen extremely few. Doesn’t care.
Hollywood hasn’t produced much in the way of watchable / halfway decent movies since the mid 90s, when Braveheart won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
The stuff they crank out nowadays is absolute trash for the most part. There are a FEW watchable flicks, but very, very few.
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