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TL: DW: One of Midnight's Edge's recurring guests (don't worry, Tom and Rob are not in this video) argues that Hollywood will now stop trying to market films to the Chinese. Also, lol at John Cena as he made precisely the wrong choice to address Taiwan Numbah Won. At the end, he even postulates that Hollywood will return to making American-centric jingoistic movies where China is the big bad guy. The relationship between China and Hollywood has been cut.
First of all, I do not agree with his conclusion that Hollywood will go back to 70s-90s era of filmmaking. The reason why we say "Go Woke, Go Broke" is because at least two generations (Gen X and Millenials) of Western people have been indoctrinated with Howard Zinn history and think America is always bad. These people are aggressively ignorant and do not care about normal business practices like profit margins, customer relations, and brand management. It matters because like with Academia, Hollywood internships all the way to the presidents such as Amy Pascal and Kathleen Kennedy are the ones that propagate in Hollywood. Even if Pasha is correct in Hollywood severing the relationship with the Chinese, these people have zero interest in depicting America/UK/Germany/Whitey cultures as heroic. SJWs are also hard to liquidate in the West due to "Squeaky wheel gets the most grease" acquiescence.*
Second, 70s experimental films are niche films to today's audiences. Joker made the money it did because it tapped into the Superhero zeitgeist. Most modern character study-type films are about as profitable as Marriage Story or whatever indulgent independent film pretentious actors want to make. And TBH, woke artists love creating weird character studies of themselves. Mary Sue will become a hated genre of storytelling that Hollywood will make for mid-budget, actor driven movies. The spirit of 80s films are completely gone and it's most noticeable in any story that uses 80s nostalgia. There's not going to be any edgy movies critiquing society because any real criticism has to criticize woke society and the Karens that empower it.
Third, it doesn't matter what Hollywood says or does. They've defamed the domestic audience for disliking films like The Last Jedi, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Birds of Prey far too often to get these people back to the theaters. They're now seen as a CCP propaganda arm. One that demands exorbitant premiums for any of their services. They also cannot backtrack their TDS propaganda and criticize West Taiwan as Hollywood would have to admit that Trump was completely right about West Taiwan.
So what we'll probably see is even more woke propaganda out of Hollywood instead of sensible business decisions like course correction and making fun movies. They do not have the kind of people necessary to pull it off.
*Which makes me very jealous of "The nail that stick up gets hammered" thinking the East believes. Yes, yes, I'm aware that kind of conformity has problems too, but our pandering to Karens has not helped our society in the least.
First of all, I do not agree with his conclusion that Hollywood will go back to 70s-90s era of filmmaking. The reason why we say "Go Woke, Go Broke" is because at least two generations (Gen X and Millenials) of Western people have been indoctrinated with Howard Zinn history and think America is always bad. These people are aggressively ignorant and do not care about normal business practices like profit margins, customer relations, and brand management. It matters because like with Academia, Hollywood internships all the way to the presidents such as Amy Pascal and Kathleen Kennedy are the ones that propagate in Hollywood. Even if Pasha is correct in Hollywood severing the relationship with the Chinese, these people have zero interest in depicting America/UK/Germany/Whitey cultures as heroic. SJWs are also hard to liquidate in the West due to "Squeaky wheel gets the most grease" acquiescence.*
Second, 70s experimental films are niche films to today's audiences. Joker made the money it did because it tapped into the Superhero zeitgeist. Most modern character study-type films are about as profitable as Marriage Story or whatever indulgent independent film pretentious actors want to make. And TBH, woke artists love creating weird character studies of themselves. Mary Sue will become a hated genre of storytelling that Hollywood will make for mid-budget, actor driven movies. The spirit of 80s films are completely gone and it's most noticeable in any story that uses 80s nostalgia. There's not going to be any edgy movies critiquing society because any real criticism has to criticize woke society and the Karens that empower it.
Third, it doesn't matter what Hollywood says or does. They've defamed the domestic audience for disliking films like The Last Jedi, Terminator: Dark Fate, and Birds of Prey far too often to get these people back to the theaters. They're now seen as a CCP propaganda arm. One that demands exorbitant premiums for any of their services. They also cannot backtrack their TDS propaganda and criticize West Taiwan as Hollywood would have to admit that Trump was completely right about West Taiwan.
So what we'll probably see is even more woke propaganda out of Hollywood instead of sensible business decisions like course correction and making fun movies. They do not have the kind of people necessary to pull it off.
*Which makes me very jealous of "The nail that stick up gets hammered" thinking the East believes. Yes, yes, I'm aware that kind of conformity has problems too, but our pandering to Karens has not helped our society in the least.
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