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I wish there was a third season for H2O mermaid adventures

Thank you for adding your stupid political views in there, only reason I watched the video.🙄

This is such a great video essay, i love how you give examples outside of film to explain your points

On the comment on telling parents: I had deep conversations with my dad that if I became a mermaid I’d tell him. We lived in Washington State at the time, and I knew if I ended up an h2o mermaid, I would never be able to go to school. He humored me and said we’d move somewhere sunny and ocean side. Thanks dad!

Excellent, I really really enjoyed this. My favorite “type” of film as well

song at th-cam.com/video/c8X9KY9On_g/w-d-xo.html ?

Please do Season 3

Please don't stop making videos. I love cinema and the way you speak about films really touches my soul!

I clicked with skepticism; I watched in awe. Fantastic essay (minor grammatical mistakes aside). One missed point is that the status symbol of escaping consequences is probably a self-defense mechanism. The problematic people in question are usually the industry's top earners. In an industry filled with power-brokers who are mainlining gigantic sums of capital like Scarface & his Cocaine Mountain, accountability will disrupt the revenue stream and bring loans to bear. You see this in tons of SA trials where an assailant gets acquitted because of his "promising future." What that means is "this guy's gonna make a lot of money that will circulate upstairs" and most of the time this profiteering is the result of abusive behavior in toxic work environments pushing people to unhealthy productivity (this also worked for classic slavery, too). Scott Rudin managed to run a 30-staff production company with 10 people by oppressing them with psychotic persistence. A friend of mine (who's a Leftist space-nerd) told me he thought the Industry has been insolvent for decades because of how a Debt Economy works (i.e. musical chairs) and the Supermassive Financial Black Hole of our current Recession is too great for plundering to poor to work like it did in '08. He argued that everything we're seeing in the Industry is artificial infusing of energy into the star to delay the collapse until everybody can get clear of the gravity well (told you...Leftist space-nerd), and the cannibalization is how they're collecting the material to do this. So they're also trying to see if they can capitalize on the collapse and institutionalize it as well if it happens. My concern is that if it implodes or explodes, the detritus from the event will spread all over the landscape...and the newly forming independent spheres will become inadvertent landing pads for the refugees fleeing it. If history is any teacher, they'll try to colonize the New Space and turn it into a rebirth of the Old Space and repeat the process.

You just a gained a subscriber, You're such an amazing storyteller, I hope a can see a movie from you one day 💗

22:35; Chris Jericho.

I really admire your vulnerability in this video. You shared some pretty personal stuff and the Internet is always a risky place for that. Keep up the thoughtful videos! You got me thinking about the effect Mulholland Drive and Beau is Afraid had on my consciousness😅.

Has Tarantino ever stood behind progressive ideas? I can't remember him ever espousing a progressive idea, and I've watched a lot of interviews and his and Avary's podcast. I've seen him describe himself as being the sort of lowercase d democrat that was around in the nineties, sure. Most of the moments I recall wherein Tarantino defends his movies, I don't have a memory of him using a progressive defense. I just remember him saying, in one way or another, "I make the movies that I'd want to see." Which is apparently an entertaining popcorn movie. I've never seen anyone call Kill Bill a feminist film, but I never went looking within the rabbit holes of the internet to examine discourse happening on forums, either. I always thought it was a super stylized Revenge-O-Matic and just a highly entertaining movie. In my twenties, I'd mow the lawn, celebrate mowing the lawn with a bottle of Korbel Sweet Rose, and put on either Kill Bill 1 or 2 and watch it with my girlfriend; it was one of her favorite movies, and one we agreed on. It was thrilling. We watched it every few weeks in a rotation of DVDs we had, and it was... Fun. I know, fun is awful. Tarantino is a gradient of generic entertainment and art, in my mind. I like (most of) his movies, but I don't exactly consider those movies to be art, the same way I consider a Wong Kar Wai or Jane Campion or movie to be art. I put Tarantino is the same bucket that I put David Fincher, which is the 'mostly entertainment, but a smidgeon of art' bucket. The difference I see between Tarantino and Fincher is merely that I believe Fincher knows what he is and what he does, and I think Tarantino buys and sells his own hype and believes he's something more. Tarantino has a big ego. I think the majority of people who watch movies do so to check out and enjoy themselves after a day or week at work, to be entertained. Fandom typically revolves around directors who give the best bang for the buck in terms of entertainment, and little else. It's a function of commerce, and that's probably fairly depressing to some. The backlash over woke movies from the consumers of those movies is born out of the fact that most people don't want to think or question how they feel about something while watching a movie, they just want to have an experience and be entertained. I'll watch an arthouse film when I'm in the mood, but mostly when I go to the movies or watch something at home, I just want riveting entertainment that is well made. In the breaches of the of the online world, there are people who have ideologies, and they stand in condemnation of entertainment and fun, and will go to any length to destroy that entertainment and fun. I absolutely separate the art from the artist. I believe all human beings are monsters (not just men), and that art is probably the one thing wherein humanity expresses anything more than grotesque mediocrity. I say that as someone who doesn't like most of the movies I see, most of the music I hear, and the vast majority of the books I read. The world is a morose, depressing place, and there are few bright moments to be had, and I think we should enjoy what we get. I think certain people, like Polanski, are monsters, but I'll watch a movie of his if I hear it's good. Good movies are good, regardless of who makes them (...and movies are made by many people, not just one person; if there's an AD, DP, writer, gaffer or grip who works on a film who has committed crimes, do I boycott that film, and not watch it? Many movies have hundreds of important roles at work to be made, and out of all those people, there's almost always gonna be at least one monster. I can't get into the weeds and sift my entertainment to remove all evils It's not possible.). I do, however, measure my commerce against my morality, and if a particular movie is made by a human that is said to be especially vile, I make sure I consume it in a way wherein $0.00 goes into their bank account. I also review those movies on a curve. I think that's the best policy to have, in a world filled with monsters of every gender, ideology, faith and life experience. I really like Agatha Christie books, and she was abhorrent as a person. Just gotta take the good with the bad and keep rolling. We can only do what we can. At least, that's all I can do. Being a man, I found the "acting like a man" line a bit glib, a smidgeon gross, a little insulting. The framing of other commentary aligned with that line was also off-putting. I don't know a bunch of violent men, and the overwhelming majority of men do not act in an untoward way with women, and this is fairly obvious. "99% of perpetrators" and "a majority of, do not" can both be true at the same time, because: scale of population. Instead of demonizing all men, maybe we should just put people in jail. I'm all for putting people in jail who harm other people. Let's do that. But leave me out of the narrative, when it comes to how I act according to my gender. Thanks? We're passed that, right? Oh, wait, we're not. Gender stereotypes are all the rage, even in this late, late, late, foul year of mediocre thinking and twitter hot take vile. Same as it was on LiveJournal in the late nineties and early-aughts; even the gotchas are the same. Nothing changes. On the subject of actually bad men, though, I've also always found it interesting who gets touched; vis-a-vis public humiliation, criminal prosecution, and public downfall. Trent Reznor, for example, is a known monster in the music industry, with sexual allegations going back decades, and as many 'company you keep' violations as anyone can possibly have. On an MTV/Yahoo live chat program, he once directly said that rockstars become rock stars to sleep with underage girls. People in the industry talk about it, and now and then it bubbles up and then goes away. He fits all the archetypes of those powerful people who should go down, but he remains untouched. I've heard people in the industry say that he drugged and Tour Bus'd all kinds of underage girls back in the day, and with what he's said in interviews, some of which are harder to find these days but happened and can be found by those who really look, it's obvious that at least at one time he was an extremely vile human being, and a terrible influence on other people. He's also one example of someone whom I was a big fan of, and now I don't listen to his music at all. In the case of Reznor, though, it's the culmination of what he's accused of *and* the fact that he sells depression and misery under the guise that it's cool that pushed me to no longer experience his art, even for free. He has changed his public image quite a bit now, and I think that's how he's evaded the justice trap. Money really does buy freedom. I generally wish people weren't assholes. //longest TH-cam comment I have or ever will write//

re Chapter 3: Yeah, Saltburn was a little more than undercooked. It was an empty shell, just like all the other Netflix Templated movies. There's an entire angle to the Templated Netflixification of film that I hate more than anything else. I can only think of a handful of Netflix films that I can rewatch or have seen multiple times. Most of them I wonder why I'm watching, while I'm watching.

Holy man-hater Batman!

you’re my favorite channel to listen to!! you’re brilliant

this channel and these videos deserve more subscribers and likes and views

Just had my first day at film school and..what a wonderful future to look forward to :/

Its not hard. Two reasons. 1) it's about making money or pushing political agenda instead wanting to make something good. 2) they have to appeal to society and society at the moment is pretty shitty

We really need a new reset button when it comes to entertainment and music industry who knows.

This essay is ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!! Thank you so much for sharing!

59:02 I once read, that the Oscar is more a "payment booster" for the people who achieved them. But not a "greenlight booster". Normaly, Oscarpeople can bargain for a substantial Plus on the paychecks. But they dont work more or better after they received an Oscar.

15:51; hard truth.

Don't monetize your hobbies.

I loved this video! Even though I didn't really rock with BABYLON (especially not the ending), I like how you parallel the film's message with the current state of the film industry; very clever! However, the only thing I strongly disagree with is the conclusion and its implications for young filmmakers. Now, I'm just a guy on the outside looking in - an infrequent indie filmmaker who goes months without making anything - and you're actually in the industry, so take what I say with a heaping spoonful of salt. That being said, I have very little faith that the industry is going to change in the way you prescribe at the end. It's still an industry - a giant capitalist superstructure that will constantly do underhanded, shady stuff to make a profit. Also, as a POC, I completely reject the idea of "black faces in high places" as a solution to...well, anything (I mean, we see that all the time when we get more black cops who end up brutalizing black folks just like white cops). In my opinion (again, outsider), the future of cinema lies with indie filmmakers taking the indie musician route - finding their little niches, making the films they want to make that will be appreciated by them, and making a living from it. This could also help to create a new type of underground cinema not unlike the Third Cinema from the 70s in South America or the L.A. Film Rebellion or the Lincoln Motion PIcture Company from the early 20th century. Here's a prime example: indie Steven Lewis Simpson giving a TED talk on this very subject (th-cam.com/video/FVJvX8oMSDo/w-d-xo.html). Anyways, just my two cents.

Hell yeah well put together point of view 🥇

This video was so well made! Does anyone know a site that shows/ introduces you to more independent films?

Queen Queen Queen! You are a Queen for this!!! I was offended by Saltburn. So all styles no substance. Same with Babylon too many films in recent actually. You really have a pulse on the zeitgeist of our troubling times. I would implore you to look into radical feminism if you want to become more depressed and open your eyes even wider

I don't care about profit.

Thank you. Someone who finally gets it. You have articulated something I have struggled to voice.

Now I am depressed, and angry, at the state of the industry. Now you have confirmed my instinct, as a film lover, maker and collector, why there is very little contemporary cinema that interests me. Now I accept as an artist, embracing the struggle of creativity I have always owned, that the price of artistic progression is the probability of failure

"Nobody knows anything." -Goldman.

It could be a supply and demand issue. There's a huge demand for women, minorities, and LGBT people on camera and behind the camera, but there could less of a supply of these demographics applying to these jobs than they want. Perhaps straight white men are more likely to apply to production jobs than any other demographic? When I go get Sushi, I notice only Asian people work there. Are they racist for not hiring black or Hispanic people, or are the vast majority of the people that apply to Sushi restaurants Asian?

23:20 Thats not really new. That normal for Hollywood at least since the 1970s. I mean take "The Accused" from 1988 as an example. That movie is not famous for its artisitic or intellectual significance. No, its famous for the Gangrape of Jodie Foster which is on nealry every pornsite in the Internet today....

everyone in the industry is making movies for other people in the industry! movies used to be a way to escape and for at least a decade I can't name a movie that really spoke to the me as a person. the filters are too designed and controlled, it does not feel like real life or a movie, just some weird art piece no one can connect to. they seriously need to bring outside talent, its so homogenous - movies, music, books whatever.

I didn't really enjoy this. I respect the hard work you put into it. The buzz words you used and the shot at Johnny Depp ( I truly hate Depp as a person as an artist I hate him and for something to happen to him that makes me feel bad for him is saying something or it would if you knew me) told me in the first three minutes I probably wasn't going to enjoy the video. With that said I didn't and hey that's cool I can dislike something but still respect it and the person who made it. I hope this finds you well and I honestly hope you are having a wonderful day. Thank you for the video and taking the time to read this.

Great video. Very researched. I love the nothing really happens like Swimming Pool, Before Sunrise and its sequels.

When i hear you, i see how lucky i was to be there the right time, place and had known nice people... To need just 6 years to get in a movie produced by warner as stand by prop for 3 days. Doung it as a hobby beside my trade

Just a side note, if you’re working as a gaffer, electrician, grip or 1st ac, non of those jobs are minimum wage, unions rule in the states, and if you own some equipment you can rent to production, like a van, lighting kit, fiz system ext, you’re earning upwards of $1500 as a technician, the world that doesn’t happen in are indies and non-union jobs, but non-union jobs aren’t typically classed as “Hollywood films”

Some entitled Brit just found out about the casting couch, propaganda and capitalism. Woke genocide is your next revelation. All men are evil and all women are entitled to top jobs based on no work history. Very relatable. Glad to see the Hollywood corporate monopolies are going under fast. Man hating racist Disney killed Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Muppets, MCU, Pixar, Walt Disney and every former popular franchise. Even while owning the propaganda media (ABC, Fox) Every film and TV series makes no money. Cancel culture haters will not be working next year. Oh, well, there are millions of old games and films and TV shows to download on torrent sites.

As someone who’s a little too into movies, and having a hard time explaining why I didn’t like Saltburn for example, I feel seen and heard by your video essay. I’ll try to sent this video to my friends next time the topic comes up. Hope the algorithm gods will be in your favour!

This is all very interesting dirt on every film bro’s favorite actors and filmmakers. Thank you for the education.

this is a very good, succinct docu. i really like the straightforward way you present yr points. i agree with so much of what you've pointed out, and it's funny, because these issues are prevalent in all other areas/aspects of patriarchal society. it's not just the film industry, it's everywhere that wealthy men are "meant" to dominate.

Great video. A little heavy on pointing the finger at men, as if there are no women involved at the highest level, facilitating the whole thing. None of these men have wives who validate their behaviour on a daily basis?

The last time I watched Mulholland Drive, I noticed something about the scene with the audition. If we take this as Betty's fantasy of Hollywood, the audition is paused, it seems because of respect for Betty's personal space, until Betty takes the hand of the co-star, and assertively places it on her own bottom. I realised this must mean that Betty is aware that sex exists in films, and understands it is all acting, and therefore done with a certain level of dignity. She is also very comfortable with giving consent under this understanding. It's only acting after all. And she is able to retain her agency. But when the acting jobs aren't coming, and the waitress tips don't pay the rent, you become desperate, and all of a sudden the acting loses all of it's dignity, and Betty loses her agency. She'll "Act" with whoever the cowboy tells her to.

Re: Babylon - As a study of Hollywood, do you think it made the "Hollywood Dream" more or less appealing?

" I definitely had times when I couldn't afford groceries and had to ask mom for help" is sooo pretentious.

Hollywood is a parasitic cult, and the whole world is a willing host, because Hollywood has convinced them it is more important than breakfast [another lie].

while i agree with the point of hollywood often exploiting labour, i dont think you should be so degrading to the crew role jobs. A gaffer or camera assistant isnt just someone who always wanted to be a director and is now just a shit kicker who hates their life because they arent the boss

nice documentary