As if we needed more evidence that "Hollywood" actively despises its audience, thinks they are rubes who need to be shocked into "reimagining" beloved tales. Classic Hollywood, especially after the enforcement of the 1930 Production Code (which took a Catholic boycott of a film to shock the studios into reflecting the audience's traditional values back to them, finally forcing the studios to enforce their own code) sought a middle ground between Left and Right because the studio moguls had mostly started out as theater owners and thus knew their audiences and knew what would sell (after, of course, being forced to adjust their morality to fit the audience) thus creating the "golden age" of classic American films. The circles in the Venn Diagram of Hollywood's values and the audience's has been growing ever further apart for years so that now, it's apparent that Disney and Netflix, chief of sinners, no longer share any overlapping beliefs. (There is still evidence that the occasional family film somehow sneaks into real entertainment, such as recent Dreamworks animation.) How many millions or billions will be lost as an industry widely seen as in crisis is forced to rediscover its audience. My guess is that it won't and the alternative media and outlets, like Angel Studios, give the audience what it used to get from Hollywood.
As if we needed more evidence that "Hollywood" actively despises its audience, thinks they are rubes who need to be shocked into "reimagining" beloved tales. Classic Hollywood, especially after the enforcement of the 1930 Production Code (which took a Catholic boycott of a film to shock the studios into reflecting the audience's traditional values back to them, finally forcing the studios to enforce their own code) sought a middle ground between Left and Right because the studio moguls had mostly started out as theater owners and thus knew their audiences and knew what would sell (after, of course, being forced to adjust their morality to fit the audience) thus creating the "golden age" of classic American films. The circles in the Venn Diagram of Hollywood's values and the audience's has been growing ever further apart for years so that now, it's apparent that Disney and Netflix, chief of sinners, no longer share any overlapping beliefs. (There is still evidence that the occasional family film somehow sneaks into real entertainment, such as recent Dreamworks animation.) How many millions or billions will be lost as an industry widely seen as in crisis is forced to rediscover its audience. My guess is that it won't and the alternative media and outlets, like Angel Studios, give the audience what it used to get from Hollywood.