I'd quibble on the premise that the talent is still there in Hollyweird. There is some, but much of the real talent is concentrated to a small few and many are aging out/died/will die soon. The industry has been infiltrated by people who are more activist than artist and have the talent of an online fan fic writer. Most of them, having not been apprenticed or coached well, are trying to create works by superficially copying what they like without understanding the fundamentals of what makes a good story, a good character or good dialogue. Good film making is like magic to these people who lack a significant amount of imagination and knowledge. They do the actions of the ritual without understanding the faith.
And it isn't just Hollyweird, look at the play industry of Broadway and Off-B. Same thing happening there.
Since Sophia is of God, the "Muses" are too.Is it really a wonder that as Christendom turned into Satandom that all that can be made now is destruction of old IP?
Agree with you there that it's impossible to make anything in Hollywood proper, which is why a lot of the talent is going elsewhere, like Scorsese, Malick, and Coppola. But whether you agree that they are talent or not they are certainly a dying breed from a long-lost era. A few of the films I mentioned on my list of good films I had seen recently are from other countries entirely (Japan, Canada). I think it would be a mistake to say that the talent has completely dissipated, because there will always be good people who love film and know how to make it, but in the studio system they have been all but stifled.
Sorry for lack of specifics. I'm purely referring to Western media, in particular Anglophone media. If Japan can keep the rot out, we could look to them for media (and comics readers have already done so). And yes, there will always be some talent around, but the system itself in its current state won't support it, and the climate is different because most of the people there just sorely lack talent. We had a bumper crop of talented individuals and now it's looking like the fallow times for the field.
I'd quibble on the premise that the talent is still there in Hollyweird. There is some, but much of the real talent is concentrated to a small few and many are aging out/died/will die soon. The industry has been infiltrated by people who are more activist than artist and have the talent of an online fan fic writer. Most of them, having not been apprenticed or coached well, are trying to create works by superficially copying what they like without understanding the fundamentals of what makes a good story, a good character or good dialogue. Good film making is like magic to these people who lack a significant amount of imagination and knowledge. They do the actions of the ritual without understanding the faith.
And it isn't just Hollyweird, look at the play industry of Broadway and Off-B. Same thing happening there.
Since Sophia is of God, the "Muses" are too.Is it really a wonder that as Christendom turned into Satandom that all that can be made now is destruction of old IP?
Agree with you there that it's impossible to make anything in Hollywood proper, which is why a lot of the talent is going elsewhere, like Scorsese, Malick, and Coppola. But whether you agree that they are talent or not they are certainly a dying breed from a long-lost era. A few of the films I mentioned on my list of good films I had seen recently are from other countries entirely (Japan, Canada). I think it would be a mistake to say that the talent has completely dissipated, because there will always be good people who love film and know how to make it, but in the studio system they have been all but stifled.
Sorry for lack of specifics. I'm purely referring to Western media, in particular Anglophone media. If Japan can keep the rot out, we could look to them for media (and comics readers have already done so). And yes, there will always be some talent around, but the system itself in its current state won't support it, and the climate is different because most of the people there just sorely lack talent. We had a bumper crop of talented individuals and now it's looking like the fallow times for the field.
For sure. The harvest is plenty, but the laborers are few.