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So you're telling me that the producers of The Emoji Movie and the 20+ seasons of Survivor get culture, and realize that content is about quality? US movie stu
by JackFr 8y ago
So you're telling me that the producers of The Emoji Movie and the 20+ seasons of Survivor get culture, and realize that content is about quality?
US movie studios and television production are more costly than they need to be, because they need to pay for the barnacles and rent-seeking cruft that attached themselves to the industry when they were operating for a half century with an oligopoly on distribution.
When challenged by upstarts, they reduced costs by making crap reality shows and squeezing established franchises to death theaters. They are a business, and at this point, they will be squeezed by Amazon & Netflix.
- opportune 8y agoThe real problem here is that consumers don't want culture. The emoji movie made over $200mm at the box office while having a budget one quarter of that. Survivor got so many seasons because it did well with viewers. Studios don't care if they have to put out crap as long as it makes them money. If Amazon prime becomes a household good, meaning it sees wide adoption by a large viewing segment which doesn't care about seeing high quality content, that puts Amazon in a great position to churn out bad shows with popular appeal.
- sievebrain 8y agoEmoji movie is culture, whether we like it or not. There's no rule that culture has to be highbrow.
- opportune 8y agoOh I agree, it's just that in this context it seemed the parent implicitly meant high-brow culture when saying "get culture."