HOLLYWOOD, LET ME HELP YOU
The movie business doesn’t scale any more than national narratives do. Understand? Anything interesting for everyone is impassionate for anyone.
the hero’s journey may be universal but the properties of that journey cannot be universalised.
I gave the same speech to the newspaper industry in 2008. There is a limit to scale. After that you must represent mini and micro-group interests.
But this destroys the evangelical self importance of journalists and the financial incentives in news distribution.
Like government, there is little advantage to scale except credit. Unless studios start getting into the military business they have run out of scale.
Movies and news are regional, meaning cultural, phenomenon.
Hence why americans don’t like movies: no heroes are possible without opponents.
Source date (UTC): 2015-10-20 14:33:00 UTC
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