Wednesday, September 9, 2020

Hollywood Hogwash

If you take a drive through old Hollywood, up in the hills you will see some amazing architecture. A lot built to suit really wealthy and really eccentric people. There is history there amidst newer built homes. The newer ones are glass, metal and sterile and cold. They don't have much style or quirkiness because it was built with a sterile cold designers mind. This may be an extension of the owner as well. Or the developers who thought glass and cubicle feel would catch on. You see this in the Korean movie "Parasite." The area reminds me how much history use to exist in Hollywood. Individual tastes seemed much more important than say...conforming. Today, all Hollywood does is conform. The newest comes from the Academy. Which, in 2024 states it will not consider movies for Best Picture category if it doesn't meet certain criteria aimed at "inclusivity"? Good for them. Hate for America. NOT that America needs to function on pure Honky cinema (let's face it, the best exploitation films came from White Jews making Blaxploitation). This level of "forced inclusivity" doesn't do much for craft or art. Hollywood attempting to globalize itself even further. I, for one, would feel sickened if I won an Oscar knowing that it was because I added enough Mexicans to my films (note to self: need more Mexicans in movies anyway). It also is a weird announcement considering they should just do it and not seek attention. Just quietly reach out to the studios and tell them the deal. Then let it roll. Such is the point of these things to make a spectacle. Hollywood always thinking it will be cutting edge to social change. In reality, they are woefully behind. And Americans are losing patience with it. Because they don't like to be told they are bad people. Especially by HORRIBLE people. Cocaine sniffing losers who only less than 1% have consistent work. The rest find ways to get in trouble. Or whine about things because they aren't partying like they use to. These things are all connected, people. Any hooters, if you prevent people from expressing their mental eccentricities in life, be prepared to see more movies become cookie cutter glass, metal cubicles (which they have become). Perhaps I'll be on the re-treaded end of blasting this conformity, ala "Easy Rider."

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