Roy Price, the founder of Amazon Studios, recently admitted that modern Hollywood films “are actually worse” than films created in the past and that Hollywood has a massive quality problem.This Substack is reader-supported.
We used to have a Biblical Church foundation to our creatives. They'd make things knowing Bible stories, knowing God, knowing Christ. Even the atheists understood the moral framework and their audience. They understood beauty versus the vile.
Today it is full blown pagan & perverse. It is nihilism, selfish, reprobate. Why not????
Familiarity with and appreciation of both Biblical and Classical stories used to be very common; over the last century or two, intellectuals have made it their common goal to debase those stories and the audience with their new interpretations. Current media producers followed into that trap, putting themselves and their opinions above the stories (and the audience) and what made them resonate for so long.
A character used to be an individual drawn from an ideological group. An optimist could become a pessimist if her worldview was shattered. There's a lot of potential internal drama there. Now a character is drawn from an unalterable group. A "black woman in America" is not going to change; ergo, there is no potential internal drama. She cannot experience character growth, only superficial external conflicts like car chases and snarky conversations. Those get boring fast.
We used to have a Biblical Church foundation to our creatives. They'd make things knowing Bible stories, knowing God, knowing Christ. Even the atheists understood the moral framework and their audience. They understood beauty versus the vile.
Today it is full blown pagan & perverse. It is nihilism, selfish, reprobate. Why not????
Familiarity with and appreciation of both Biblical and Classical stories used to be very common; over the last century or two, intellectuals have made it their common goal to debase those stories and the audience with their new interpretations. Current media producers followed into that trap, putting themselves and their opinions above the stories (and the audience) and what made them resonate for so long.
A character used to be an individual drawn from an ideological group. An optimist could become a pessimist if her worldview was shattered. There's a lot of potential internal drama there. Now a character is drawn from an unalterable group. A "black woman in America" is not going to change; ergo, there is no potential internal drama. She cannot experience character growth, only superficial external conflicts like car chases and snarky conversations. Those get boring fast.
(cough) Old Guard 2 (cough)
Don’t forget to add that she was always awesome and it’s just that the stupid misogynistic racists refused to acknowledge that fact.