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For every Quinton Tarantino there are dozens of people who could make amazing films but never had the opportunity for a wide variety of reasons that now mostly
by gitfan86 1y ago
For every Quinton Tarantino there are dozens of people who could make amazing films but never had the opportunity for a wide variety of reasons that now mostly go away.
- shermantanktop 1y agoAnd for each of those dozens, there are now millions of untalented people who can generate terrible films with a few clicks. How does a Tarantino, or even one of your new talents, ever get discovered? The friction is a feature, not a bug.
- physicsguy 1y ago> The friction is a feature, not a bug. The friction means only wealthy people can do anything in a sphere.
- shermantanktop 1y agoWe've seen unprecedented democratization of media over the last 30 years, primarily due to the internet. I'm personally not seeing a corresponding positive impact on cultural creativity. I see a lot of tweets and a lot of Etsy stores, and the audience for long novels (for example) is aging out.
- physicsguy 1y agoCan't say I agree? There's tons of self-published novels that likely never would have made it to publication. Just to give some examples... The Martian - Andy Weir Wool (Silo TV series based on this) - Hugh Howey The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers
- xandrius 1y agoYou're not looking hard enough: indie video games, educational YouTube content being on par if not better than TV documentaries, countries generally not making great series, now being able to be seen by people anywhere, all sorts of great musicians and writers. Like with everything one can see the positives or focus on the negatives. The Internet today has great, good, medium and bad content, just as before, what's different is the effort and excitement we used to have back then.
- gitfan86 1y agoQuality rises to the top organically.