It’s not Hollywood creatives, but the banks that they’re reliant upon to finance productions.
The movie financing department un-creatively wants to see the safest lineup of stars, directors, and a non-controversial script to maximize their chances of getting their loan back with interest.
Ironically, this also means that the risk you have to create interesting art is missing.
So the end product is safe, but because it’s the same thing, it’s more and more boring over time.
It’s why an octogenarian Scorcese gets to make “The Irishman” with similarly aged Robert DeNiro, because that’s a combination that made money in the past.
It’s like AI shit.
It’s great at first, but soon you realize there’s nothing new coming out because it’s just AI regurgitating its training data, and undercutting artists trying to make a living by making something new.
It’s not Hollywood creatives, but the banks that they’re reliant upon to finance productions.
The movie financing department un-creatively wants to see the safest lineup of stars, directors, and a non-controversial script to maximize their chances of getting their loan back with interest.
Ironically, this also means that the risk you have to create interesting art is missing.
So the end product is safe, but because it’s the same thing, it’s more and more boring over time.
It’s why an octogenarian Scorcese gets to make “The Irishman” with similarly aged Robert DeNiro, because that’s a combination that made money in the past.
It’s like AI shit.
It’s great at first, but soon you realize there’s nothing new coming out because it’s just AI regurgitating its training data, and undercutting artists trying to make a living by making something new.
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