Sunday, May 6, 2018

Immature Hollywood

Hollywood has original thinkers. What they've been racking their brains over is how in God's name to make it so it makes money so they can make more.
It's always been like this. Except for the immature part. This is when superhero movies ate up mature Hollywood and gave us complete and total undigestible garbage.
You have overgrown children making these movies now and they can't aren't willing to make original movies, because...? Fear. It's not fear of anything else than when you get invited to the new adults table...they are just as immature. Think about this...something as sexually comical as a 1975 movie "Shampoo" still had a deeper message in it. That's why when you do come across a "Get Out" you are blown away by a) the depth b) the craft. That no longer exists with tighter budgets on low-budget movies and ZERO tolerance on blockbusters. Again, think about what made America a great film mecca...we were able to make gangster picks like "The Godfather" without having to worry if Italy was going to be pissed. Or how much it does in Chinese box office. "Kramer vs. Kramer" was about the destruction of divorce in a child. Now...you couldn't make this movie because the people growing up now are surrounded by divorce. And also, Meryl Streep would be seen as the hero. Also, it's about grown ups. No one wants to address grown up shit. Think about this..."Tully" opened. And I doubt it got any traction. There aren't any mature movies anymore. And why bother when you have retards who can't digest it. Shallow entertainment for the masses. And the dummies mock it. Because people aren't willing to fucking hear it. IF you ever wondered what a society that grew up on unlimited media. We're there. Sorry there is no hope. No one has the attention span to maintain an adult themed film. Think about the directors back then that don't exist today...
Sidney Lumet, William Friedkin, Brian DePalma, Don Siegel, etc...
Who do we have now?
Now before you shit on my point by saying that the people in the 70's were lamenting about he death of directors from the 50's. Nope. That system was all studio based. They demanded product that was more mature. Literary material. Today, we build on the shoulders of over-saturated media at our fingertips. No one can be surprised, and no story is good enough. Even some attempts at adult material fail the maturity test. Which is...it lacks...the threading of great drama based on the situation. Manufactured ideas are transparent and easy played as background noise. Great drama engages. We're so deprived of it, we truly forgot what it sounds and looks like. It's not anyone in our business is in a rush to grow up. Because we aren't regulated by grown ups. They dress and talk like it, but they're stunted. And we have plateaued. Think about Hal Ashby and Billy Wilder. Two craftsman of great mature cinema. Even cotton candy fare like "Shampoo" with it's open sexual deviancy is bolted solidly into the best quote I've heard in a long time "you keep running and you don't get anywhere..."
That is the comment for all creative types. We are so frightened of growing up. Or discouraged to lose our childish ways. Our cinema reflects this.
You get what you get. And unfortunately, it's for dumb people now. I would say at this juncture...movies are worst than sitcom television. No matter how much computer effects you put into it. But it makes money, so most of you would tell me to shut the fuck up. Yeah, real mature.

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