So the takeaway of this article is that if you you watch Heavens Gate on fast forward or in slo mo, the ponderous fictional plot might make sense but it's still a terrible movie made by a terrible person. So it's still a masterpiece because...Hollywood. film.avclub.com/one-of-hollywo…
I never figured out how Hollwyood made two Wyatt Earp movies at the same time. How much myth and mustache can America handle? ew.com/movies/2019/02…
The glorification of violence is a tone deaf Hollywood disease..and racism. D.W. Griffith made The Clansmen" aka "The Birth of a Nation" in 1915. The "film represents how racist a white American could be in 1915 without realizing he was racist at all." rogerebert.com/reviews/great-…
Post war Hollywood began blacklisting creative people who had leftist sympathies. Roy Cohn, later Trump's lawyer, was one of the star assholes of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Hollywood went right.
In the 70's Hollywood zigged left to cater to youth and a spirit of revolution. Everyone was a rebel or anti establishment. Even Star Wars. Now the movie industry is lost with theaters closes. Endless trailers for Tom Cruise movies and still nothing on TV. washingtonpost.com/arts-entertain…
Hollywood may be dead. Monetized nerd content that anyone with an iPhone or laptop can create interesting content and then brand it. Will it replace the blockbuster, reality show or doc. Not yet but it socializes income through a brutal master. inc.com/bryan_elliott/…
YouTube has 81% penetration among youth but is constantly messing with their monetization and what they consider appropriate content. They zagged left in a massive pogrom against right wing content creators devastating the Trump haterade ecosystem. theverge.com/interface/2020…
As a certified Marketing Genius, I have no idea why someone doesn't have a YouTube channel starring makeup wearing children opening toys doing parkour while explaining how to set up computers, but YouTube has yet to figure it out either. insider.com/youtuber-money…
The point? Monetizing hate and violence for profit still exists in America, often fueled by outsiders. It flows into different outlets. We have yet to hold a House Unamerican Activities investigation examining the outside links of the last administration. insider.com/conspiracy-the…
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