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Sep 18, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
#TIFF20 is money laundering a-go-go. Netflix paying this much for these movies is highly suspect—any one of these movies would make a small fraction of that during even a healthy movie theater year. They overpay for these movies in order to launder money
A studio used to be at risk of going under for consistently overpaying for movies and as a result directly causing flops. We are living in a post-flop world though—Netflix movies don't 'make' anything, and they share no records even as far as views. Its all top secret and corrupt
By overpaying for shit nobody wants it inflates the perceived value of these movies, makes it seem like anybody wants to see these movies. This is all manufactured/engineered. Profit and business has nothing to do with any of it. Everything is made up and the points dont matter
Netflix is not an actual company. Netflix is not an actual business. This shit makes 'too big to fail' look like kid stuff. I wish people understood exactly what was going on here
This isn't the 'screenwriter boom', this isn't anything like that. This has nothing to do with Hollywood at this point in any traditional 'business' sense. This is more politics than it is business. This has more in common with 'shadow government' shit
When you ritualistically overpay for products *no one wants* and are then *not even sold in any real way* and you are *constantly in debt* and *constantly spending that much also*, any sane government would investigate hard. But Netflix is in bed deeply with the deep state
30 MILLION paid for:
- a two person, one location film
- filmmaker's last film was a huge flop, only made 2.9 on a 7 mil budget. hes never been profitable
- would be impossible to release wide—no one would want it even in a good year
- b&w always does poorly

MONEY LAUNDERING AF

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Nov 13, 2022
Skepticism is at an all-time high for the first time since the cringe atheist libertarian skepticism of the 2000s. But now it’s not tethered to that subculture—it’s a genuine skepticism that all can engage in
There were so many blatant biases that turned me off of the whole ‘Randi is our god’ era of skepticism—I appreciated some of the contributions, but other stuff was dead wrong. There wasnt much room for self-reflection amongst those types
I see self-reflection all the time now. Week to week you see ‘maybe Trump bad’ or ‘maybe DeSantis bad’ or whatever, just to name two recent examples. People are constantly trying to course correct, and not in a neurotic or self-defeating way either
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im editing INVISIBLE SHARK right now—1 like = 1 random screenshot i'll grab from the footage. everything is straight from the camera, no color timing or whatever
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Jul 13, 2022
how do you make a twitter account that just tweets out all of a particular text? i want to make one that just tweets out every word of NO SHARK (~25000 words) over and over 🚫🦈
They say that it’s hard to do something, whatever it is that you want to do. Have you noticed that? Not just that it’s ‘hard’—they say it takes luck. Everything is a million-to-one shot, apparently, or worse—hundreds of millions, billions, I don’t know.
Odds like that, it’s a wonder anything happens at all. It’s a wonder we’re even here, or anything is here. But we ARE here, and ‘HERE’ is here—we must not be very good listeners.
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May 23, 2022
Well said:
To piggyback off what he said, there's a certain bad karma to any art made as mere product. That bad karma must be offset as much as possible with projects whose worth only needs to be its brilliance. To chase money wholly is the definition of greed—to chase it partly is survival
'how much money will it make' is always the wrong question for hollywood to ask, because the money has already been made, and the money should be put to good use, and what better way than to make a film that pushes the art form forward
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Apr 12, 2022
when I think about the future of filmmaking, i envision a world without 'producers' in any traditional sense

for instance, i dont want my name on your film, and i dont want any % of your profit—but im open to being paid to consult you so your film doesnt suck 🤷‍♂️
it keeps the process a lot more specific towards adding actual value—it avoids the pitfall of a producer who is just a name attached to a thing and nothing else, or is a tyrant, etcetera. makes everything just transactions of 'how do i do this?' 'well, here's how i'd do it'
filmmakers should always have the utmost control—there's literally no rational reason left for them not to. and it makes sense that people should be able to make a living helping them realize their vision. but 'Producer' is tainted, is archaic, is wack—its existence ruins things
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Apr 10, 2022
After trying the first 290 movies made during the Oscars, i found 16 worth watching. In the next 80 i found 6! Lesson: work longer on your films—those first 290 were completed and uploaded WAY before the deadline. The people who used more editing time made better movies 🤷‍♂️
I am going through each and every one of the 580 films made that night, by the way. I try each for a little bit and see if it’s tolerable. If it is, i add it to my watch list and then watch it later. I’m currently 361 movies in 👍
Bad, unlistenable audio is of course immediately disqualifying. If i cant even hear you, or if all the voices are left channel, thats an L. Handfuls of films didnt satisfy this basic requirement—and of course they were released with many days of editing left to spare 🙄
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