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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Defund Hollywood.
We need to burn the village to save it.
Nah. Hollywood has been in “death throws” multiple times before. Mostly because they’re slow to see the change in the market. There’s a lot of franchise fatigue going on right now, which is why those guaranteed money makers aren’t. And of course they still haven’t really figured out the streaming market. But there’s still money being made, and the next “new Hollywood” will find its path and shift the market. Just like always.
Good except they also dumped Prince Charming.
I’m waiting for CGI to make human actors obsolete.....it’ll happen but I’m sure I’ll be long gone.
Because their contracts expired. And the contracts the studios are offering suck. Especially the writing contracts. If you’re a writer in LA there’s not that much difference between making 3 grand an episode for about 10 episodes a year and making nothing.
I hope so. Hollywood is the hair growing out of a bloody mole on the butt of America which is Kalifornia.
I just watched “Inglorious Bastards” on Firestick. Got halfway through. Not based on any fact. Critics were good to this product and I can’t see why.
I’m waiting for AI to break the voice down of Frank Sinatra. Put out a Robert Plant song using Sinatra’s voice.
Huh? It was not meant as a documentary.
It was strictly a hoped for vignette of how a small part of WW II could have gone.
Can’t happen soon enough.
I suppose you stopped watching “Forrest Gump,” at about the same point in the movie.
With the advent of broadband internet and near cinema quality cameras available on your basic smartphone, nearly anybody can become their own content provider.
Why produce content for a streaming video service for a flat fee when you can put your content online and get the advertising/subscription revenue for yourself?
Now true, 99% of what gets posted on YouTube and other platforms by ordinary citizens is junk. But there are now many YouTube channels produced by regular people that are compelling enough for me to subscribe to. Anything from cooking, to home repair, to history, to discussing music. I find myself spending more time consuming that content than the latest streaming show on Netflix or Amazon Prime.
I mentioned on other threads that there is already so much content produced that if all of us did nothing else but sit around and watch what was already out there, we would never run out of quality content.
Then you have your vintage movies and TV shows which were produced from a time before all this Hollywood wokeness took over. I could spend my entire retirement years watching all the movies prior to say the 1970s, which far surpass in quality what we are subjected to today. That is, if I wanted to spend my retirement watching movies, which I don't. But I will at least tackle the classic film noir films from the 1940s to 1950s. All good stuff.
Tarantino flicks have been taking a dive for a while IMO.
If you didn’t like that one, don’t bother with Hateful 8 or dejango Unchained......both repugnant.....also IMO.
*Huh? It was not meant as a documentary.
It was strictly a hoped for vignette of how a small part of WW II could have gone.*
I’m not into ‘let’s pretend’.
*I suppose you stopped watching “Forrest Gump,” at about the same point in the movie.*
Forrest Gump was a simpleton who made good. So did Peter Sellers in “Being There”. It sells to the simpletons among us who need an escape.
You do understand the “suspension of disbelief” concept when it comes to watching movies or reading fiction, correct?
All Sci-Fi is an escape, as are all dramas and slasher movies.
If you want news, opinion, or documentaries, you need to look elsewhere.
Somebody thought Whoopi got the Prince Charming role.
There are few things that can continue unchanged for long.
The need for “entertainment” will continue with or without Hollywood. In what form this entertainment will exist is yet to be determined but in time Hollywood as it exist today will die out.
Technology already allows independent content makers to create and share what they create.
I can not predict where this is going, but can predict the times they are a changing.
Movies are already produced using computers, soon they will be written by them too (AI).
It’s an angelic conflict with the minions of Satan spreading doctrines of demons. Let’s pray that Hollywood dies the inglorious death they deserve.
My thoughts exactly.
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