The allegations against Kevin Spacey made House of Cards essentially implode; he’s now trying to restart his career despite new sexual misconduct charges against him in the UK and ongoing litigation in the US.
Weinstein got shipped to « rehab » and got the #MeToo ball rolling—which we have since learned was more of an insurance policy than a positive shift in the entertainment industry—but he hasn’t really faced justice. His business dealings—and likely problematic behavior—has just shifted to new producers, executives, etc. Weinstein produced movies are still readily available and consumed by the masses.
Tarantino is gross, and despite his weird foot fetishes and overall creep behavior, he’s managed to « start a new life in Tel Aviv » apparently.
I could go on about the films, plays, and tv series that are still on streaming platforms worldwide despite some of the evil things in the industry coming to light. Despite the drips, not much has changed.
Which brings me to my main question: if civilization learns that Armie Hammer isn’t the exception and is, in fact, the rule, what happens?
Will the populace just toss the last few decades of media into the trash can? I’d be sad to see things like Reba, Boy Meets World, and some other more family-oriented shows go. It’s difficult to wrap my head around 40+ years of media just going « poof », but I’m guessing that’ll be the extreme case.
Will we experience a Renaissance-esque era where conservative and intellectual voices get the chance to creat and produce more profound works instead of watered-down, woke storylines that simply repeat the same dull propaganda? I hope stand-up comedy gets a resurgence after we rid ourselves of cancel culture.
I’ve been attempting to find a conservative media company to work for; I haven’t had much luck. There’s nothing I love more than creating theatrical and film productions that unite people in an immersive experience; the only way to do that nowadays is pushing some kind of agenda on the masses.
I don’t want agendas; I don’t want propaganda; I don’t want cancel culture; I just want to make good, challenging art again.
Do we think we’ll get there? Will we see patriots reclaiming entertainment once shiz truly hits the fan?
What do you think?
u/plebbitimmigrant makes some excellent points.
Just my opinions:
I doubt that entertainment will just be 'cancelled', when you consider that 'The Office' is now the most streamed TV show out there, it shows that the entertainment value of the TV and movies from the 70's to 90's are just better objectively. Maybe the desire to watch those shows will drop or disappear as allegations get proven against many actors, but it's still possible to just ignore what the actor did and focus on the character being played.
As for the future of entertainment industry as a whole, I believe that, first, entertainment after the awakening is going to come back to a better balance, in the sense that people won't be just watching TV for most of a weekend.
Hollywood and the centralized sourcing of entertainment will have to be shattered... so instead of MGM, Miramax, etc. It will be smaller groups where the focus will be on the art and storytelling. This will be assisted as free and open source tools that are as technically capable as the 'industry' standard are improved on it will open the door for small crews to create, film, automate, add sound, etc. That could be on the same level as hollywood, but with a fraction of the costs.
As with most art, it's far better to have a single person with a vision of what the end result should be instead of what Hollywood has become, which is more like creating art via committee, where you end up with the same garbage, rewriting 20, 30, to even 50 year old intellectual property because it's the only way that anything will get 'approved'.
Collaboration is good. Much of the conflict distills and focuses the story.
But there's a big difference between a person with a story to tell, and a corporation with a story to sell.
While I agree with most of your points, I definitely disagree with your last paragraph.
I don’t think creating art via committee is the problem. Getting things approved isn’t even a process, I don’t think. You get stories of people « breaking in, » « selling scripts, » etc. But I’m pretty sure every major production company gets no funding if they don’t follow the NWO and/or CIA approved plot points.
Getting smaller groups into the mix will fix a lot of that, but you have to dismantle the intelligence community’s stranglehold on production before that can occur.
I see your point, we may be talking of slightly different things.
I meant, say you were painting a face by committee, they decide the perfect eyes, nose, lips, chin... when it's done something is not quite right.
Like this girl I dated in high-school, if you looked at all her features individually she was gorgeous, but the proportions between them was off and really threw things off. Turned what should have been a strong 8 into a 7.
Hmmmm.
As a director, I disagree here. I enjoy leading and creating my vision for things, but I cannot execute it correctly without the proper team of designers, actors, production crew, etc. supporting me in bringing that to fruition.
Ahh... I knew it was mainly a semantic distinction.
That's a proper collaboration, each bringing their skills to best suit that vision (and similarly you likely have some give and take in the process), but if it all comes down to your decision that's different from my intended meaning.
Now, if you, as director, were working with a team of directors with the same group of subordinates on the same project... THAT would be what I would refer as "by committee" in that either each would split a responsibility or have to come to mutual agreements on all elements. In that sense, you don't have a single vision, but multiple similar but different visions and the compromises can harm the end result in the intent of improving it.
Also more live music and shows.