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6/16/2025, 2:53:57 PM
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It's because everything is hyper-corporate now. Corporates pushed away the real artists decades ago because big name artists, whether it's directors, musicians or showrunners, are often eccentric and think they can dick around the "bastards with the money". The actual industry is ultimately ran by corporations who aren't thinking about achieving anything else than a high margin. So the more the really talented artists became "troublemakers" the more of them got ditched for safe and replaceable talent over time. And what we have seen especially in the past 15 years is that studio-culture take over both video games and hollywood cinema, where people join out of school, with institutionalized knowledge instead of "vision" or self-discovered ingenuity, and they run for 5-10 years before the next generation is handpicked by the corporations, and the corporations want it to be this way.
It can't be about the "personality making the art" because that person will be replaced by someone else and repeat the "tried & tested" pattern of making a product, it's corporations deciding that. This is what the MCU was as well. People at the helm of a Studio deciding what to do, and putting different directors in a routine, but even though you get someone as deliberately talented as Sam Raimi and Danny Elfman to direct and score a Marvel sequel film, people came out of that movie going "I couldn't tell it was a Raimi movie" or "I couldn't tell that was Danny Elfman's score." because it's perfunctory. They're working within a well-oiled machine, where everything is decided by committee, and everything is running in expected patterns.
That's why when you see almost any TV Series or movie now, that has slow, drone-zoom-ins with "ominous music" over it, and a dull looking color palette decided by the "Lead Tone Master" on the film it's because businesses are deciding to set everything in a convergent pattern, and any talent working with them are just fitting into their mold.
It's because everything is hyper-corporate now. Corporates pushed away the real artists decades ago because big name artists, whether it's directors, musicians or showrunners, are often eccentric and think they can dick around the "bastards with the money". The actual industry is ultimately ran by corporations who aren't thinking about achieving anything else than a high margin. So the more the really talented artists became "troublemakers" the more of them got ditched for safe and replaceable talent over time. And what we have seen especially in the past 15 years is that studio-culture take over both video games and hollywood cinema, where people join out of school, with institutionalized knowledge instead of "vision" or self-discovered ingenuity, and they run for 5-10 years before the next generation is handpicked by the corporations, and the corporations want it to be this way.
It can't be about the "personality making the art" because that person will be replaced by someone else and repeat the "tried & tested" pattern of making a product, it's corporations deciding that. This is what the MCU was as well. People at the helm of a Studio deciding what to do, and putting different directors in a routine, but even though you get someone as deliberately talented as Sam Raimi and Danny Elfman to direct and score a Marvel sequel film, people came out of that movie going "I couldn't tell it was a Raimi movie" or "I couldn't tell that was Danny Elfman's score." because it's perfunctory. They're working within a well-oiled machine, where everything is decided by committee, and everything is running in expected patterns.
That's why when you see almost any TV Series or movie now, that has slow, drone-zoom-ins with "ominous music" over it, and a dull looking color palette decided by the "Lead Tone Master" on the film it's because businesses are deciding to set everything in a convergent pattern, and any talent working with them are just fitting into their mold.
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