We need another New Hollywood Renaissance
The abysmal current state of the industry closely mirrors that of 1950’s Hollywood - over inflated studios with far too much interference, repetitive formulaic blockbusters, remakes and adaptations, one after another. Little to no creative original content or an incentive to produce it, and most importantly an audience who gobbles it up feeding the evil machine.
We need to somehow educate the populace or trick those unable to learn, make good quality films “cool” again and get people paying to see them in large quantities.
People like PT Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Andrew Dominik, Nick Refn - they are a dying breed, as there is little to no financial incentive to keep them alive. PT Anderson has made multiple films, almost all of them widely acclaimed by critics, but barely broke even. No one outside of film buff circles seems to have heard of Refn or Dominik and even an acclaimed household name like Scorsese, who now has several mainstream major box office smashes in his recent filmography had to go to Netflix with his tail between his legs to get his movie made.
It’s sad and depressing, and frightens me that there might come a time when I literally won’t have these great artists to choose from.