Why Hollywood is a black hole?

[@niceman5907]

Hearing a former network exec freely answering questions feels like getting your hands on a conman's diary

[@undefined7141]

Right! The Hollywood is the audience for Hollywood dead, just dead right there. Broke my mind.

[@Bookspine5]

​ @undefined Dannnggggg !!!

[@hugh-johnfleming289]

You have no idea...

[@TheDrudgenator]

Having dealt with actors before (admittedly I was shortly trying my hand at it for a time but was more a musician) it’s a never ending ego fueled machine .

[@kathleenhensley5951]

Good simile. So stay away from Hollywood.. don't expect too much from them.

[@ZeeZedZee]

Don’t forget how 90% of indie dramas seem to center on a struggling writer trying to make it in New York. Totally not a self-insert for the screenwriter.

[@The_Reality_Filter]

It's not always a struggling writer it's often a struggling actor...

[@CallMeChato]

@@The_Reality_Filter 99% of the people in the creative industry are struggling. Ha. Yet I had to do it.

[@countofdownable]

To struggling actors just remember your training will not be in vain, at least you will be able to recall an actor’s perrenial line, “Do you want fries with that”!!!

[@The_Reality_Filter]

@@CallMeChato and we're glad you did too. I'm English and watch a lot of Scandi productions and I can tell you the standard of acting and script writing is so much higher than in Hollywood.

[@TickleMeElmo55]

@@The_Reality_Filter There are a lot of indie movies being made in the US & UK, some with good writing and acting, some with bad writing and good acting. The issue is redundant themes. Scandinavia ain't that much better.

[@johnheart6890]

I met James Woods once on a set: I was a nobody- He was the star of the show (Shark). He was very nice and treated me, a nobody, like a fellow professional actor, with kindness and respect. I think his behavior towards me demonstrates that he is a man of good character. There was no way that I could do anything for him, he was just being nice. Why the hell won't people hire this great actor? Just because you don't agree with a person politically doesn't mean that you can't work together. I would like to pretend that I am not like those idiots, but perhaps I am no better than them for rejecting a person, simply for their political beliefs. At the risk of showing how STUPID I was, I once turned down the opportunity to be a stand-in for Arnold Schwarzenegger at a day shoot, because I was a democrat. Can you believe it??? (I can't! But it's true) I am no longer a Democrat (Nor a Republican for that matter) All I can say is that I made so many mistakes when I was in Hollywood. And this is one of the worst ones. Monumentally stupid I was. Monumentally dumb.

[@CallMeChato]

Thanks for confessing.

[@johnheart6890]

@@CallMeChato Ha! Funny again!!!! I think that young actors should hear what you have to say. I wish I could have watched your videos 30 years ago! I’m no longer in the biz, but I think your messages would be a Godsend to people just starting out, especially if they are recently graduated from a training program. You are genuinely funny and you are also one of them, so maybe your message would penetrate their thick artistic heads! They would be grateful to you forever! I’m looking forward to the next video you make!!! God bless you!

[@SunnyE_Mechwarrior]

@@johnheart6890 Actually Schwarzenegger I know is Republican sounds like a reasonable with environmental policy's and is one of the few who spoke up against Trump and the cronies. I am left leaning but I can respect Reagan, Thatcher, and other who willing to make deals and compromise and stand for what is right vs. ideology. They didn't say to Gorbachev you are communist, we won't deal with you. They put aside ideologies and really ended the cold war.

[@michaelmayo]

At the risk of sounding boringly Buddist, most of the wisdom I've learned in life has come from making mistakes, some of them terrible mistakes that still haunt me; but it's hard to know you're making them until after it's done. Not much that's worth much in life is free, and making mistakes is oft times the payment for what you learn. Harder still is letting those past emotions go and try to go into the future with an optimistic heart and knowledge that there are still good people out there, even if they're tough to find. Good luck.

[@DMichaelAtLarge]

I agree with you. Monumentally stupid and dumb. But then, I'm in no position to judge you for being monumentally stupid and dumb.

[@solavita306]

I was once part of a local theater community - they acted the same way. It was always one person gushing about another's performance or advertising the next show they were in. For them, nothing existed worth talking about outside of acting, show biz, the next play, musical, bit. Once giant mutual appreciation clique, only adherents need speak up.

[@TickleMeElmo55]

Why do people who act, whether it's in musical theaters, play or tv/film tend to do this? No other people do this in their line of work. Innate insecurity and narcissism that's found within actors, perhaps? I mean, don't they realize what they do for a living is playing pretend yet they talk about it like what they're doing is going into outer space.

[@jl.7739]

About Kurt Russel. John Carpenter said in an interview, that they are complete opposites when it comes to politics. Yet they worked together several times and seemed to get along great. Seems impossible these days.

[@torchmd]

Oh My GOD i love your sense of humor!

[@Mouse2379]

Modern films are reminding me, more and more, of those low-budget religious movies that don't seek to tell a story or entertain. They're just platforms for sanctimonious preaching.

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

they remind me of fast foods.

[@TickleMeElmo55]

At least the religious movie isn't so navel-gazing and narcissistic. It speaks to a higher order.

[@reb3102]

I've pretty much given up on entertainment. I have a fairly large Blu-ray/DVD collection of pre-2000 movies/TV shows which is far greater than the time I have to watch them. I've got a few early 2000's stuff too but not much. The nuts in Hollywood, Big Tech, and Washington DC seem to want nothing more than restructuring America into some kind of Marxist dystopia where they rule supreme. I loved the 80's and I guess I won't have to worry what the world will be like in 50 years. But I still have my memories and cherished old stuff to keep me company. As long as I have a working Blu-ray player.

[@kathleenhensley5951]

I'm slowly giving up hope. Its a long drawn out process for me, like saying farewell to an old friend that you truly loved, but you realized you have nothing in common with, anymore, and they really don't want to talk to you, any longer. I agree with you... I've got a lot of DVDS. Never graduated to Blue Ray, everything from Opera and Shakespeare to Chinese costume dramas and 'Attack of the Killer tomatoes' ! I listen to a lot of podcasts and books on CD.

[@BitchspotBlog]

Same here. I have a massive video collection and I spend most of my time watching old stuff, from before the political left went completely insane. We've noticed that we used to buy tons of DVDs and Blu-rays, even going so far as to have DVD Christmases, but now... if I buy 5 new movies a year, that's a record. Old stuff, sure. Anything modern? Forget it. The same with TV. We used to buy DVD season box sets by the armful. Now, I don't want to watch any of this crap at all. Hollywood sucks.

[@Lonovavir]

Sorry for the late response but I'm the same. Older stuff seems more creative and balanced or at least nuanced than new stuff, especially post 2015 "entertainment".

[@matthwe3468]

I've kept my DVD collection as well. Just as well I did as there is NOTHING to watch now.

[@raymondsmith6870]

I think I remember one director who couldn't get a sequel of one of his cult scifi films off the ground and was hoping to continue/end the story in a comicbook adaptation for his fans but was legally blocked by the studio from such a minor project as the studio owned the movie universe IP and just wanted to sit on them for no particular reason. He was told "We own whatever you have in your head for this IP"

[@acerimmer8357]

Fascinating, what you described in my opinion is basically how most groups work especially political parties, their focus is always on their ideology or whatever cause is popular. They never hear much that disagrees because they surround themselves with like minded people. Having worked in local government for many years it really interesting to see what happens when you get a group together are not the insiders or special interest people. Yes it does happen once in a great while, you actually end up with some pretty good and fair results. The problem is implementing those results as the "special people" i.e. developers, big money interests, political friends, etc. realize it doesn't benefit them like they think it should. So they spend copious amounts of time and money to delay and sand bag the process until they get sympathizers to their cause elected and fix the problem as they see it. Great job as always.

[@baldusi]

When I used to watch all the Oscar nominated movies (a thing a kept doing for a few years after stopping watching the ceremony altogether), I just couldn't believe they gave the Oscar to Parasite rather than Jojo. But I think Parasite had the right political message while, ironically, depicting Hollywood's values much better. On the other hand Jojo was by far the most intelligent and deep movie. Not even Life is Beautiful was able to take such an eternal theme so well.

[@obi0914]

And suddenly I was hit by a realization of why Hollywood is so bad....

[@quikgold513]

"When we learned the word SoftReboot." When they learned they can shift titles to just "The" or put "2016" in it. All they do is repackage history with terrible version of what happened before or abuse the creator of his/her idea of property Imagine comparing Generations (A Night of the Living dead) Grandfather (The Night of the living Dead) Dad Night of the living dead (2016) Son Vastly different experiences because of what happens in each movie. For the same old hypnosis. Profit. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@Goldenspiderducck]

And *that’s* why, back in the day, Coppola, Lucus, and crew went up to San Fran to found Zoetrope. But, eventually….Hollywood exacts their pound of flesh from everyone.

[@Ahmenthi]

I'm a new subscriber, found your channel within the last two weeks, and it's been fun and insightful to catch up on the rationale Hollywood uses to do what they've been doing. I always figured it was all a circlejerk of egomania but the sheer unapologetic pettiness and self-admiration they engage in with their projects and decisions still kinda blows me away. Looking forward to how much of a laughable virtue signal the Oscars will be. It's hard to imagine it getting worse year after year but that's been the trend.

[@davidcoleman757]

Some of the self-referential movies you listed are really good. It just never struck me how many there are of them. Your musings are a lovely distraction from the tsunami of crap towering over us. Do keep them coming.

[@gilbertlozano902]

Well my dear friend , I have learned the hard way why I don’t get work in Hollywood anymore. Thank you for your most awesome and sincere videos. I have become a big big fan of your work! Bravo !!!!💖👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@basilforth]

This reasoning also applies to professional sports. The reason that so many players kneeled a couple of years ago was because they were making statement to their peers, not to the fans.

[@theoblivious2]

I started following you because of the FStoppers video, now I'm hooked on Hollywood philosophy and the discussion on the end of free-thought, un-cancelled media 😆

[@CallMeChato]

Why thank you.

[@attichatchsound-bobkowal5328]

A Todd fan! I knew there was something I liked about you!. Criminally under-appreciated.

[@passerby5]

I think the American comic book industry is also pretty much like what you've said about Hollywood - especially about their insularity and navel-gazing proclivity.

[@kimmccarthy7747]

I'd call their attitude less navel gazing and more determination to stick to their agenda even as sales tank and people head for manga, where the attitudes are so far behind the times they are actually setting back what progress we had made.

[@jonathancook7616]

@@kimmccarthy7747 Funny, I was reading manga (published translated mind you) 25 years before the rest of the country starting catching up. While I've moved on to other things I still have a bookshelve full of out-of-print titles. My only issue nowadays is when I go check out the manga section at a B&N (just for the heck of it), all the titles are heavy romance targeted at 12-15 year olds. Occasionally you'll find something similar to Evangelion or Attack on Titan but those are in the minority now. It is what it is.

[@planetdisco4821]

I had an epiphany one night while watching the sound foley guy getting interviewed for about the 5th time (It’s about 18 hours in btw) on the making of collectors box set blu ray edition of LOTR that I really, really needed to get out of the house more lol

[@NefariousKoel]

Actors and Politicians. Some of us ask ourselves, "who would want to spend their lives striving for such things?" Narcissists. Narcissists and, relatedly, the power-hungry in the latter case.

[@Daramouthe]

Trump actually played it well. He knew his audience.

[@TickleMeElmo55]

@@Daramouthe Your TDS is showing.

[@TickleMeElmo55]

At least for politicians they aren't so much insulated by their constituents. I can see why people would want to run for office. But being an actor, specifically a tv/film actor? I don't know why. I respect actors who primarily do stage acting, be it plays and/or musicals.

[@carbon-structure]

This is your best yet! So on point and borderline unhinged hahaha Taika's our golden kiwi, bro!

[@josephmorelli3408]

Slathering in diversity c.. 😁😆😅🤣😂🙂🙃 Great Channel. Your takes are all the Hollywood anyone needs.

[@xheralt]

In the words of relatively obscure musician and caricature artist The Great Luke Ski, "I am my own target audience"

[@tinad8561]

Nice. I loved Blazing Saddles; Brooks is a genius. In a film class in grad school, we were reading a paper on what black representation in film should look like, as opposed to what it does look like. They were clearly thinking 80s Oscar bait like The Color Purple, but it amazed me how many of those shoulds Blazing Saddles fulfilled. And yet it remained so, so funny. (I wonder if the title was chosen with a view to the acronym it would produce…)

[@peace-yv4qd]

I haven't been to a movie theatre in ten years. I walked out of the theater half way thru the film. I can't remember the name of the movie but it had Robert DeNiro and Jennifer somebody in it.

[@marklaurenzi1609]

Loved that you used the term "gatekeepers" correctly. Rather than being reddit posters or mean tweets, you called the studio heads gatekeepers, as they are

[@anthonywoodroof2800]

Watched Tropic Thunder again last night with the missus. We love it, it's gold (can't make it today). Once Upon a time in Hollywood is also good. Despite the hollywood thing.

[@tigershark7155]

Well….. dam. That is the most concise explanation of why Hollywood produces more drek and out of touch sequels and remakes than I have ever heard or thought about! (Are you sure you were a executive producer! 🤣🤣🤣)

[@cmonkey63]

The MGM motto, if you care at all, is in a dead language but translates to "Art for Art's sake". Somehow that message got lost along the way to the bank.

[@ErizotDread]

Dude, that warm ass, thick tone on that guitar sounds amazing!

[@kevinintheusa8984]

Love your channel and I have recommended it to others often. Keep reading those old TV guides. Love it.

[@kevinkorenke3569]

For a long time I was getting increasingly frustrated at the types of movies that were coming out until I realized exactly this. Hollywood really isn't about making entertaining movies anymore, that is just a byproduct of the business side of the city. It's not a left or right wing topic, it is simply that Hollywood is more of a business now than it was in the past which is saying something. Once I realized that I wasn't the target audience it made things a lot easier to focus my discussions on quality of writing, storytelling, pacing, cinematography you name it. On the whole, Hollywood really isn't about entertaining people anymore, that's just a side effect of the takeover of Hollywood style accounting. I now realize I said Hollywood far too many times in this post so just to round things out: hollywood, hollywood, hollywood, hollywood, dollywood, hollywood.

[@Daramouthe]

Chato being informative on Hollywood. Thank you as always Chato.

[@HeyAllyHey]

Great video ❤️ I love them.

[@book3100]

Dude. Dude... Thanks for being real.

[@BeNice108]

If only artists were allowed to care about the art, not everyone's fee-fees regarding, well, anything. Political or not. The more I learn about Hollywood the more it sounds like a government that doesn't respect freedom, they just tolerate what little they're willing to offer.

[@als3022]

Sounds more like a mental ward to me.

[@Megasunami]

Standing applause for the disclaimer.

[@calicojakk9974]

I hope your channel blows up. Wonderful content 👌 .

[@johnnys8691]

Holy Jesus, that guitar sounds amazing

[@CallMeChato]

More guitar playing to come but unfortunately with my singing.

[@superlative7confusticate335]

Chato is synonymous with fresh air. (Breathes in deeply)

[@jameswright4640]

Love the new musical intro.

[@edgarlarios4718]

Honestly, I can't wait for the Daily Wire movies to keep growing so we don't have to deal with this anymore.

[@kimmccarthy7747]

Fred did do one film where he wasn't an entertainer, his last, Finian's Rainbow, where he played a conniving Irish immigrant. But he did dance in it!

[@AapVanDieKaap]

In my country most people I know stopped watching Hollywood films about 5 to 10 years ago. They just seem to repeat the same stories and jokes. A lot of people are also tired of the political propaganda. I think people in the rest of the world find the obsession with race and sexuality profoundly disturbing. But having said that and coming from a film and TV family; American film and television is typically far better produced than anything else and so there is very little competition.

[@ladyofnoxus6733]

South Korea is stepping up their game and actually maybe sorta putting Hollywood on their toes. I know a lot of people that have turned to K dramas/thrillers

[@whoreforlore4878]

I have a very similar experience. My mates and I are from the UK and we simply do not consume American media anymore. I personally did not grow up consuming American media unlike most people, and as I got older I could never got into it like everyone else did so my experience differs. However for my mates who did grow up watching films like The Mummy or Pirates of the Caribbean, they don't bother with American media in general anymore. Much like the commenter above, my mates and I have turned to South Korean media. We have been consuming East Asian media and literature for the past 5-10 years now (personally such media is the media I grew up on in conjucntion with British media) and while we do have our criticisms, it's hard to deny the quality that nations like South Korea are producing. One of my most cherished memories is when all my mates from sixth form - all eleven of us - came round to my flat for a film night where we watched Train to Busan. There is a character called San-Hwa who we nicknamed 'Captain Korea' and as the film went on, we couldn't help but chant his name every time he was on screen. And whenever anything good or bad happened to the character, we would be as emotional as the characters on screen; pushing and pulling each other as others tear up. Not one Marvel film had that sort of impact on us but one specific side character in a South Korean film was able to. Sure we'll see the odd American film here and there but only to see if it's worth our while, and unfortunately it's not most of the time.

[@treelineresearch3387]

I'm American and I mostly tuned out around 10 years ago too. It wasn't even politics, just boredom. Between foreign media, back catalogs of good vintage media, and the rise of microscale independent media like on here, Hollywood just got outcompeted for my viewership.

[@codyw1]

@@ladyofnoxus6733 All of Us Are Dead is brilliant. ;)

[@guittarjedi]

Hitler is one of Hollyweird's favorite subjects and Psycho Waititi probably got Jo Jo Rabbit made by telling the studio he would make comparisons to Trump.

[@als3022]

He did, just it happened to be in the "Making of" section. It wasn't in the movie proper. Thankfully.

[@Hexterguard99]

We really need an alternative to Hollywood.

[@MatthewRonaldWiebe]

I like how you pointed to this issue existing since the 1920s. I think we can see a similar thing in the fine arts, especially since the rise of the avant-garde in the late 1800s. I'd note a similar group of has always been prominent at the NYT or New Yorker going easily back to the 1920s in both publications.

[@Jianju69]

Full-metal honesty. This. This is what I like.

[@MK-mz3jv]

Great video and love the disclaimer at the end!

[@SalAvenueNJ]

Musicians now have home studios, Distrokid to get their songs on the streaming services (whether anyone listens to them is a different story), and KZbin to get their original music out to the world. How long until script writers start teaching themselves how to shoot and edit video themselves so they can get their stuff out into the world ?

[@TheAnimeAlliance]

Just recently found your channel and I'm loving it!

[@CallMeChato]

Yay! Thank you!

[@cyrilvidal1834]

That's the reason why Korean films/series are popular as of late. They resonate more with the average viewer because they are for the average viewer.

[@giantstingray]

I find these videos helpful. Especially in the event that I ever get sucked into the hellish vacuum that is the Hollywood machine

[@Rikalonius]

C-G-D, the old I-IV-V. I just found this channel not long ago and I'm digging going back through the content. I love your approach and delivery to these topics.

[@CallMeChato]

Thanks.

[@williamwilson5127]

This topic makes me think of Annie Hall... Jeff Goldblum on the telephone: I forgot my mantra.

[@tyramasters-heinrichs921]

THank you, I needed the laugh!

[@RyanYewell]

Tropic Thunder is an amazing movie!

[@The_Reality_Filter]

and boy oh boy has it aged well...it's no longer a parody.

[@Ultrajamz]

Yeah that was actually ok

[@belisariussmith9095]

Made my morning, thanks!

[@DrCruel]

Nothing I can say about Hollywood that Ricky Gervais hasn't said more eloquently as an Oscars or Golden Globes host.

[@robertpearson8798]

I don’t think that this applies only to Hollywood unless it’s used only as a synonym for the entertainment industry in general. Judging by the current state of Doctor Who and the past couple of seasons of Star Trek Discovery (filmed in Toronto but maybe not written there) it’s a cancer that has metastasized over the body of the business.

[@noeldillabough]

I've made a few things with me as the primary customer, and hopefully others will enjoy them! I CAN'T STAND this new posturing of thought crimes, imagine having a discussion where you don't agree with other, yet you talk it out and agree to disagree, and have a beer and hang out cause you still like each other...

[@braedenh6858]

I dig your perspectives. You help me understand some things that I probably wouldn't otherwise

[@Ulgarthemad]

Again, another awesome piece of content...informative and entertaining... i really enjoy your takes on this part of the entertainment industry!

[@colomtnhigh77]

I haven't laughed this hard in a while - thank you!

[@omniframe8612]

I know the nature of the business, but i still wanna jump into that storm

[@mikeb9048]

"Truly creative people make stuff for themselves and hope that you end up liking it." BOOM! :-) That's the secret sauce...it inevitably gets diluted a bit if you want to share it with the world and commercialize it at all, but that's the heart of really lasting art.

[@brasidas33]

Fascinating perspective… I always assumed that commercial viability was the driving factor for a project being greenlit, but Hollywood’s narcissism as a competing or even bigger factor makes sense. There was one film that I know which portrayed the film making process while not devolving into camp or socialist propaganda and that was Le Mépris by Goddard. Beautiful film… haunting score. Yeah… James Wood, he’s a tragic example of Socialism’s ingrained cancel culture… it has its roots all the way back to Plato’s « The Republic » that classic text that begat chiliastic socialism… the ideology of which were all suffering through now under its contemporary guise of Leftism/Progressivism.

[@scottwhitfield9763]

Sullivan's Travels... Sturgess is great. Sullivan: "I want this picture to be a commentary on modern conditions. Stark realism. The problems that confront the average man!" LeBrand: "But with a little sex."

[@FCR2003]

I absolutely love your videos man! Keep up the great work!!!!

[@CallMeChato]

Glad you like them!

[@johndelong5574]

Brilliant writing and analysis.

[@stephaniejaniczekssmugglerscan]

Ok. If Hollywoods denizens want to be loved explain Kathleen Kennedy, JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson who the “club” may say they love (for now) but the fans of Star Wars and Star Trek hate to oblivion. Yes the movies they burped out were made for them but the fans saw through it. Rey as Kennedys Upper Class PERFECT Mary Sue avatar. Abrams junk story telling and destruction of the OT at the outset and Rian Johnsons marking all the diversity boxes and dropping turd bombs on Lucas vision. Johnson handing the box of turd bombs to Abrams who finished the job. I won’t even get into Abrams pushing Secret Hideout to produce Star Dreck and Pukehard.

[@BorysofEbe]

He just did. They want to be loved by OTHER hollywood people. They dont care about the fans. The movies were liked by other hollywood people because they had left ideology and inclusitivty. Thats it. They dont care if fans hated it, they dont care if it wasn't any good. It had "The Message" (All rights reserved to The Critical Drinker Inc.) so it scores points with the "hollywood club", and therefore, it was a sucess. In their point of view.

[@CallMeChato]

Yes

[@stevenschultz9637]

I'm glad we agree on Tropic Thunder!

[@donphilp7511]

Loved the disclaimer

[@shuntguy]

So, McLuhan was right. The content is the audience.

[@bradrtorgersen_videos]

Thank you for doing this series. And for the commentary in this video in particular. I am occasionally asked if my books will ever reach film. I tell my readers that it was always a 10,000 to 1 shot, but in the Woke era? it's now 1,000,000 to 1 or worse. And largely for the reasons you name. And there is so much absurd money flowing through Hollywood coffers, and everyone's always desperately trying to get a piece of it (see Mamet's recent interview with Dave Rubin) the chance of any book, even a quality book, making it to the big screen intact? Horrendous. Not impossible. But almost.

[@CallMeChato]

Good luck.

[@lsporter88]

Well spoken.😁👍🏾

[@vincentwhite7693]

This guy has to be 100 % legit. Who else but a former Hollywood exec would think that there are sheep dippers out there. 🤭

[@error079]

The Critical Drinker of Canada

[@CallMeChato]

Eh!

[@mjbull5156]

@@CallMeChato I like how KZbin is giving a Translate To English option on your response.

[@Jjrmtv]

may I add The Stunt Man with Peter O'Toole... brilliant take on the industry...

[@CallMeChato]

Enjoyed that.

[@UnOrigionalOne]

I always thought of Hollywood as more of huffing their own farts rather than navel gazing.

[@allyourpie4323]

4:11 THANK YOU! Thank you for these ten seconds.

[@paulmcdonald4232]

Now I get it! It is all about them.

[@bikkersdelight7445]

It became my favourite youtube series !!!!

[@Halbared]

Thank you sirrah.

[@MoonjumperReviews]

LOL! Nice disclaimer at the end.

[@pentelegomenon1175]

I think they like it because it provides them with a convenient enemy. People can feel more safe and/or loved by simply aligning themselves against the convenient enemy, they can also feel more justified and right by attacking and mocking this enemy from within the safety of their echo chamber, and it's easy for the people who have to work with them to pretend that they care. The downside is that they always need fresh enemies, it's a vicious type of existence.

[@TheSuperappelflap]

luckily there is a whole industry based on providing them a constant supply of new enemies and creating new "us" and "them" groups, so that people keep fighting against each other on meaningless issues instead of voting for people who want to tax billionaires and multinational corporations fairly.

[@MrKRUB123]

Preach.

[@basher20]

There's a weird dynamic that happens in large organizations. I've seen in called the Paradox of Failure or in my IT career the IBM effect. Basically, it comes down to the fact that in large organizations ut is OK to fail as long as you fail in he same way as everybody else. In IT in the 80s and 90s, the saying was "nobody gets fired for buying IBM". Organizations accept that sometimes things go wrong and projects fail. There's not a lot of shame in that. However, if you were in charge of the project and did something radically different than either what the company did before or what your competitors are doing and the project fails, the blame gets assigned to the fact that you did something different because you didn't know what you were doing. It's dramatically easier to be able to say that we bought the best equipment and hired the best people and things didn't work out than to say we tried to be revolutionary and the audience/market wasn't ready.

[@CallMeChato]

We did a job for IBM. The manager of the project would never let it 'go live' because then he would have to answer for it so we just reprogrammed it endlessly for two years and then he killed it.

[@stockyphilb7663]

Your reference to Tropic Thunder made me stop to think. I've always thought it was a brilliant film but I never looked at it with your opinion in mind. Not only does TT make a meta joke about film making, like you were saying, but it flips all that to make it a film about the actors! But then it proceeds to make a mockery of overacting through the nut job actors!!! I appreciate it just that much more now. I think the journey each character went through, be it as a junkie, a closeted rapper, or a three layer fruit, really made the film special.

[@The_Burning_Sensation]

I think this is my favorite video of yours.

[@HarrySmith-hr2iv]

That was extremely amusing. And just about sums up the nonsense wokery and air-heads of Hollywood.

[@LaughingLion4Ever]

James Woods being reduced to voiceovers is no bad thing.

[@als3022]

Awesome Hades

[@bertwesler1181]

You forgot the Dick Van Dyke Show was about writer and actors and Mary Taylor More was about a News room. LOL 😆

[@WilliamPitcher]

Careful Paul. You might get people who know you to actually think you want these KZbin videos to be more than a hobby / creative outlet / pressure-relief. One of the things that many people don't get when they complain about Hollywood, the news media, politicians the police etc. is that almost everythingn is dysfunctional. It's only the small number of businesses and organizational efforts that survive that the human race accomplishes anything. While this view (fact?) might seem like the ultimate in pessisism, I have been more optimisitic about the world since reaching this conclusion. For me, it's like, "Okay, this is the way the world is. So, let's get it on with it and do what we can." Sounds a bit like your approach to Hollywood with just a bit more 'old man yells at cloud' thrown in. EDIT: By the way, I have long been a subrscriber -- but it was this series that got me to hit the bell.

[@CallMeChato]

Thanks Bill for ending your pity subscribing and hitting the bell. I appreciate it either way.

[@als3022]

That works until those who are against you decide they want to repeat history. And there are way way too many examples in my lifetime of that happening. No one is immune. And pessimism isn't healthy. Cynicism on the other hand.

[@sciencemile]

@@als3022 historically cynicism loses to stoicism so if history repeats he's on the right track.

[@justicewokeisutterbs8641]

"Self-wackadoodling" 😝😆🤣😂

[@douggolde7582]

Awsome disclaimer.

[@LukeKorolowiczArt]

Its nice to hear what we are starting to notice about hollywood coming from someone on the inside

[@nsob8897]

Quite right old boy. I've only seen hollywank get more and more self serving as I've gotten older...then I realized they've always been highly self serving and it was only me who was just now catching on.

[@als3022]

They forgot how to hide it. Or stopped caring to hide it. Or both.

[@nsob8897]

@@als3022 first one and then the other