On this general theme, the following "film" looks like it's going to be a very enticing and appetizing pile of steaming turd pancakes:
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Quote: (06-28-2018 10:26 AM)greekgod Wrote:
Comedy is separate from movies because the distribution channels are different. Hollywood has the production, editing, writing, casting, and promotional channels on lock. The truest form of comedy, aside from promotion, doesn't need any of that. You could open a no frills comedy club in Chicago or NYC that caters to the crowd who yearns for raw, incisive truth and within a year or two, have a very nice business. Shit someone could probably make a nice 5 year run of lampooning hollywood's idiocy. And if it proves successful, unencumbered studios would be popping up soon thereafter.
Talent has been suffocated but someone in the moneyed alt lite will scratch this itch within a decade.
Quote: (06-28-2018 10:37 PM)SlickyBoy Wrote:
+1 on Greekgod's post. Have a look at how polished and manufactured the music industry is and it's even worse than the movies. The book The Song Machine details the entire process from soup to nuts. The whole thing is engineered and put together like a canned soft drink. They use professional riff writers, algorithms, committees, focus groups and the usual demographic and socio-political checks and balances too.
Long gone are the days of young outstanding musicians allowed to grow into matured artists while their fans watched, listened and either approved or disapproved. That model is just too risky for the financiers nowadays, and attention spans are far too short anyway. Probably makes sense to do it this way, economically - I guess I can't blame the money men, but it is sad.
It's kind of like that fake art you see hanging on hotel room walls, only at least that "art" might have been done by some actual Chinese guy for a few cents before it was mass produced for nationwide distribution.
Quote: (06-28-2018 10:37 PM)SlickyBoy Wrote:
+1 on Greekgod's post. Have a look at how polished and manufactured the music industry is and it's even worse than the movies. The book The Song Machine details the entire process from soup to nuts. The whole thing is engineered and put together like a canned soft drink. They use professional riff writers, algorithms, committees, focus groups and the usual demographic and socio-political checks and balances too.
Long gone are the days of young outstanding musicians allowed to grow into matured artists while their fans watched, listened and either approved or disapproved. That model is just too risky for the financiers nowadays, and attention spans are far too short anyway. Probably makes sense to do it this way, economically - I guess I can't blame the money men, but it is sad.
It's kind of like that fake art you see hanging on hotel room walls, only at least that "art" might have been done by some actual Chinese guy for a few cents before it was mass produced for nationwide distribution.
Quote: (06-29-2018 12:45 AM)EndsExpect Wrote:
Quote: (06-28-2018 10:26 AM)greekgod Wrote:
Comedy is separate from movies because the distribution channels are different. Hollywood has the production, editing, writing, casting, and promotional channels on lock. The truest form of comedy, aside from promotion, doesn't need any of that. You could open a no frills comedy club in Chicago or NYC that caters to the crowd who yearns for raw, incisive truth and within a year or two, have a very nice business. Shit someone could probably make a nice 5 year run of lampooning hollywood's idiocy. And if it proves successful, unencumbered studios would be popping up soon thereafter.
Talent has been suffocated but someone in the moneyed alt lite will scratch this itch within a decade.
I think your analysis is spot on... however... liberal audiences are insanely liberal. 44% of America is so liberal that it's absolutely crazy, and they all agree on nearly everything. It is functioning like a religion. Most of these people congregate in big cities.
In a city like Chicago, or NYC, there are not enough normal people to make a standard comedy club profitable. Maybe if you generated enough outrage it would get free publicity and then could be profitable for a time as people came to check out what all the fuss was about.
Normal people, and conservatives are not all jammed up in big cities. You would have to create a comedy tour and go through playing cities like Huntsville, Alabama. This would require a lot more work to gain some kind of fame or status... and once you did... what would you do with it? You would be booed or protested off stage in any big city, and no movie studio would touch you.
Essentially if normal people want to splinter off and create their own entertainment industries... it's doable, but would require massive effort and heavy funding to start.
Quote: (06-29-2018 08:37 AM)Syberpunk Wrote:
The actor, Simon Pegg, a few years ago suggested and I'm paraphrasing what he said "that civilization can't sustain itself solely on dumbed down sci-fi and comic books films"
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Melissa McCarthy’s “Life of the Party,” has grossed $52 million, her lowest-grossing comedy ever. Amy Schumer’s “I Feel Pretty” is finishing its box office run with $49 million, less than half of her debut hit “Trainwreck.”
Quote: (06-29-2018 10:19 AM)DChambers Wrote:
Music has become a formula business, they don't want people who experiment ad push music forward, they want people who are sure to make them money and not rock the boat. Not to mention it is a lot harder to break into the mainstream with smaller record labels comparatively to older generations of musicians. A lot of Classic Rock artists of the 60's and 70's started with followings in big and middle sized cities and worked their asses off touring and releasing albums until they broke into the popular conciseness. Nowadays as long as you can be auto tuned, follow the formula, and bend over to the music industry you to can sell out a stadium.