Hollywood is all about money, but ideology is extremely important. If financial sacrifices on the part of the investors and shareholders must be made to protect the orthodoxy from ideological deviationism and subversion of the equalitarian and inclusive notions that Hollywood loves so dearly, then so be it. They are only benighted investors and shareholders anyway, and not the educated, insightful elite. So they deserve to lose out on higher returns on their investments.(/sarcasm)
...”but ideology is extremely important.”
Understatement of the century (just kidding).
Think of it in these terms for the Hollywood mind:
“If it gets me high or give me an orgasm, then that’s my motivation.”
“Hollywood is all about money, but ideology is extremely important.”
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Michael Medved (”Hollywood vs. America”) among others has shown that movie industry denizens care more about the adulation of their peers and their own prejudices than in making money for investors and shareholders. The numbers for years have been showing that “family-friendly” fare makes more at the box office than sex, violence and fashionable existential despair.
The hate-america genre is an especial money-loser but that sure doesn’t stop them.
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Not really, Hollywood is all about the 'deal' (A-list producer gets A-list director signed on to project which draws A-list talent which gets distribution). That's why we keep getting crap from them. If it were really about money we'd be getting in line to see "The Wiggles Meet High School Musical - IV".