#modern film industry

[magnetothemagnificent]

Me: Hey film studios can I have some light in these scenes?

Film studios:

Me: Hey can I have some subtitles?

Film studios:

Me: Hey can I have some actual sound?

Film studios:

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#modern film industry #hostile filmography #auditory processing problems #bad subtitles

[disease]

“PICASSO IN HIS STUDIO” BRASSAÏ // PARIS, 1939 [gelatin silver print | 11 5/8 × 8 7/16”]

#brassaï #brassai #pablo picasso #modern art #studio #film photography #analog #black and white #monochrome #paris #france #industrial #30s #hungarian-french #photography #u

[iamnmbr3]

how come so much modern media has the “silly woman criticizes her male love interest for his objectively unreasonable behavior but then realizes that she was wrong and should have just stood by him and supported him and had faith in his genius” trope 

while half the Shakespeare plays despite being written hundreds of years ago are like “woman breaks with society telling her to just stand by and support her man to call him out on his dumb behavior and he just dismisses her words bc she’s a woman and this directly results in his downfall”? 

#like. Shakespeare is by no means modern. and yet often does better than a lot of modern stuff. wtf hollywood #gen #Shakespeare #random musings #film industry

[night-for-night]

color slide film vs color negative film (sip ave & jfk boulevard, jsq, jc)

#construction #men at work #hi vis workwear #infrastructure #heavy industry #machinery #machines #mechanical #orange #buildings #architecture #modern architecture #construction workers #35mm #film photography #film #35mm photography #35mm color photography #city #urban landscape

[msclaritea]

Britain Lavender Mafia

In the British Lavender Mafia, those in a higher tier of society will usually strong-arm, trick or coerce new and younger artists in the industry, to take over their career, bleed them dry, pimp them out, and not just for sex. Sometimes, it may be for torture. They'll use the artists for everything, from getting attention for a project, asset collecting, and often, SPYING. Sometimes, the artist is SOLD as a child, to a wealthier family, according to Freemason laws. Yes. Freemasons buy and sell their children to each other. This is usually tied to Occult activity.

Special mention goes to Dakota Johnson for agreeing to spy on an old friend for Dorman in exchange for a part in a Kenneth Branagh film.

#Blackmail #Embezzlement #Sex Trafficking #Occultism #THIS WILL STAY UP AND WILL BE ADDED TO #Peter Mandelson #Russell T Davies #Eddie Redmayne #Jamie Dorman #Mark Gatiss #Cillian Murphy #Graham Norton #Dakota Johnson #Spying #Kompromat Collecting #MKULTRA #Freemasonry #Slavery In The British Film Industry #BBC #Modern Day Slavery #Anti Neil Gaiman #Scientology #Barry Keoghan #Andrew Scott #Cody Fern #Balenciaga/Baalenciaga #Andrew Garfield #Daniel Craig

[countess-of-edessa]

nepo babies =/= person from a rich family i always thought?

#i thought a nepo baby was specifically someone whose parents/relatives are in the entertainment/arts industries #like taylor swift isnt a nepo baby she just had rich parents?? they bought her way into a music career but with their money not any #connections they had in the music industry previously. #whereas like…Ben Platt would be a nepo baby because he is a stage and film actor and his father is a film producer and produced films #that star him. #that’s not really to say that one is better or worse than the other and i don’t really care about the discourse either way #(people being upset their fave don’t have an organic by-merits-alone rise to fame story kind of confuse me because it seems like a very #modern and out of reality way of thinking) #like i get that people are getting undeserved opportunities through (1) money (2) connections and then putting out subpar art which sucks #but i do kind of think that ultimately you can’t trick people THAT MUCH. kim kardashian threw a bunch of money at a music career and it #never went anywhere because she simply was not good and no one liked it. #billie elish has rich parents but no matter your personal taste you can’t deny she's found success because she has an audience for whom her #music resonates. idk if she would be as successful if her parents didn’t have money and she didn’t have the opportunities that gave her #and certainly there are millions of people as good or better than her at music (if you can even quantify it in that simplistic of a way) wh #will never get the opportunities she has had that gave her success but i also don’t think she would be as successful as she is if she was #less talented. #also this is literally the worst time in history to be worried about nepo babies lol not saying that no one should complain about nepotism #casting but like we are in the golden age of people achieving artistic success through grassroots means thanks to the internet #getting an audience for work that resonates with people without the machine of the entertainment industry backing you is more possible than #ever before #also and i only have to say this in this exactly corner of the internet #if you are a monarchist you can’t use the term nepo baby #sorry you just can’t

[ode-to-fury]

I have not watched the show and I also don’t plan to, but I do hear a lot about it through second hand sources and articles and posts, and I think the worst thing that Rings of Power has done isn’t any of the lore changes or even the story changes (though I detest both of these deep down to the core of who I am) but the fact that I’ve now heard from multiple people that Galadriel and even some of the other characters are unlikeable.

Because I think at its core, any piece of Tolkien writing is about the fact that humans (or other races, if we’re being pedantic with wording) are good and kind and honourable, when given the chance to be. Even characters who aren’t “good” (Boromir, Denethor, Feanor, Túrin come to mind) are not evil. They mainly do bad things out of a desire to make things better, or an inflated sense of self, or grief. Human flaws that anyone can relate to, but this does not make them evil, because at the end of the day they still fight against the BBEG (Sauron/Morgoth).

What I’ve heard so far from Rings of Power reviews and friends who’ve watched it, is that Galadriel is cynical and harsh and plain mean. And that isn’t a Tolkien Character. The writers and cast and producers hace talked a lot about the series “representing the modern day” or something like that in interviews ive seen, and I just… is that what you think of people now? That at their core they’re harsh and mean? That they would leave each other behind when given the chance to? That they would discount their friend’s feelings of dread instead of listening to someone they trust? That women need to be able to wield a sword in order to be seen as powerful?

Tolkien lived through two world wars, fought in one of them, lost a best friend in that same war, could have lost two sons in the next… and he still managed to write a story that said yes everything is bad but at our core we’re good. At our core there is hope and love and friendship and kindness.

These writers… the worst part is I don’t even think they jilted his themes intentionally. I think they just don’t care. They know some of the heartfelt moments in the peter jackson films are really good cinema, but they have no idea why. Like there is just a baseline dissatisfaction with the source material, the core message of the source material, and it almost feels disrespectful. I’ve heard really good things about the portrayal of Elrond, though, which I’m glad about. He deserves all the love in the world, even in a bad show like this.

Now I’m not saying that there’s no unlikeable Tolkien characters. There’s a whole bunch in the Silmarillion that I destest, and everyone hates Denethor, but this is because Jirt is using these characters to show how bad behaviours and bad attitudes reflect on people’s perception of you. And most importantly These Are Not The Main Characters. This is not Game of Thrones, where main characters can be bad people because Grrm is trying to teach us a lesson using them, this is Tolkien, this is Middle Earth, where good wins. Good wins because good will always win, because again and again that’s the story Tolkien tells. Even with monumental losses, good will still win.

Very long rambling post and I don’t know if I made my point clearly, but I really do believe you can’t modernise Tolkien. Not in the way these writers want to, because modern storytelling is all about moral greyness, and cynicism, and sarcasm and that just… isn’t Tolkien. Though, like I said, I haven’t watched the show, only small clips and reviews, but I still think I’m right.

#lotr #tolkien #anti rop #anti rings of power #and i wish theyd just make another generic fantasy series instead of slapping tolkiens name on this #i hate the modern film and television industry

[elendsessor]

so uh me and my family went to go see ghost busters world iceborne today and it was fine kinda??

i do want to talk about it since i have a lot of feelings about it despite only seeing this and the original

but first actual thing that genuinely is awful that i do want to make known: if you’ve seen trailers you might know that the movie got sponsored by booking.com and yes they do shoehorn it in the movie. booking.com has very positive ties to israel because y’know travel agency and is one of several companies the bds suggests pressure boycotting so please please please do not ignore that fact about the movie please please please please do not support booking.com. do boycott booking.com.

uh spoilers below the cut i guess?

ok actual positives because i fucjing loved the ghost designs. cgi wasn’t great at points (main bad guy ghost dude i forget the name of looked best when obscured in shadows and not actually shown in detail) but the designs were at least done well. and phoebe and melody’s relationship was cute yet was done so fucking dirty. the movie did have good jokes and the acting was really solid, the world building is cool, and yeah if you turn your brain off for most of the film it’s fun. only when there’s action and ghosts is it actually compelling i noticed and it’s really sad since a good chunk of the movie is not that.

there’s too much plot ok. it’s your run of the mill family drama with ghosts sometimes there. i’m tired of the family is forever shit when it isn’t found family or paints the parents as “flawed but well meaning” and having the dad be lovingly stupid (gary’s technically not the biological dad but he does do dumb dad—pretty much flanderized homer simpson you know the trope), the mom strict to a fault but is right in the end, and incompetent brother who’s trying his best but needs a little help. most families are not like this. most families are dysfunctional in their own ways. you don’t have to have physically abusive parents or unsupportive parents to have shitty parents. painting families in this very generic way sets a really really unhealthy expectation that if your parents aren’t openly pieces of shit you aren’t allowed to hate them or if you defy them you’re automatically in the wrong.

but then there’s phoebe. oh is there phoebe.

i hate how in movies now to get across female empowerment is just make the girl super smart and be shoved in the spotlight too often. she is not interesting at all i’m sorry. you can tell she’s the smart one because she wears glasses and likes science isn’t that quirky? seriously when are we going to just get a strong female lead who has interests that aren’t tomboyish or *insert school subject here*? filmmakers do know that girls and women are also human beings with a wide range of individual likes and dislikes that can’t be reduced to tropes right??? again creating the unrealistic expectation that women cannot be treated like normal people unless they’re uber smart or uber strong. this is a problem for all minoritized group representation and i really cannot hate anyone who doesn’t like how the film industry is trying to bend over backwards for groups to force in representations that only hurt them.

biggest sin is she is not interesting on her own. she is so tropey it’s a fucking travesty. melody the ghost girl was the only compelling person—the only one who made phoebe somewhat interesting to watch—and of course she’s not safe from being a trope. i don’t like how melody has to have direct ties to bad guy mcbad and the sudden turnaround that, while it paid off for her, was rushed to hell and back for the drama.

and worst of all, there was homoerotic tension between phoebe and melody and nothing ever happens.

please just let them hold hands.

i know this is a mainstream movie so two people of the same sex even brushing up against one another is a crime but.

they were cute together and fueled several ghost au fanfic ideas.

damn you film industry.

#shantien rambles #film stuff #if you can’t tell i do not like modern film industry writing

[chiropteracupola]

the weight of history is sure hanging heavy on this one!

#em is posting about sharpe #this is one of those things that reminds me that I would dearly like to learn more about How Filming With Horses Works #but yeahhhh the Crush of Modernization and Industrialization and Time Moving On... #many good sideburns and hats in this one... greatcoats and silly little jackets... but also I miss the dudes rock japery of old times #oh whoop BESTIE HAGMAN is back HOOROAR

[marciabrady]

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#mine #“guys' movies do better than womens' movies” #ok discount the fact that this is coming from someone who's working on a studio that was BUILT on a “woman's movie” #and the fact that it spawned one of the most successful franchises in the world (disney princess line) #a lot of the highest grossing films of all time ARE women's movies??? #a good chunk of the old hollywood glory days were based on the “woman's picture” #so like where did this ideology even come from?! #snow white started the studio cinderella saved it and ariel brought it back #the “male” lead movies are what lead us to the dark ages LBR #but sadly i feel like hollywood ended up cosigning jeffrey's statement #as he was one of the most important people during the renaissance and he changed the animation industry with shrek #for better or worse #i think most of his influence today is through shrek #bc lbr modern disney movies are just knockoff shrek // dreamworks movies at this point #ahhh dreamworks...the studio who can't seem to give us a single female led franchise #just like pixar

[a-river-of-stars]

If Lawrence of Arabia were made today they probably wouldn’t even leave the studio to film.  They’d just CG a desert and call it a day.

#lawrence of arabia #modern day horror #every day I am thankful no one has yet remade this film #do you know how angry it makes me that there are so many beautiful real things we could be filming and we're NOT doing that? #filmmaking #location shooting #the iron grip of cg on the film industry

[grandapplewit]

As we’ve moved father into the post-modern era (about 1970 onwards), which is defined by the increased social emphasis on individualism, communal storytelling has become something… shunned. Past methods of communal storytelling (theatre, music, folktales) have been increasingly privatized since 1970. Because of this, we’ve seen the emergence of fanfiction (specifically slash fiction started by Star Trek fans in the 1970s) and TTRPGs (specifically Dungeons and Dragons and Pathfinder in the late 20th Century), which are both ostracized by the mainstream culture, but are also the only two sources of communal storytelling in the 21st century. TTRPGs are finding more footing in mainstream culture, but because they’ve found footing are becoming increasingly commodified. In this essay, I

#I’d be interested in studying how communal storytelling has changed over the past hundred years. #a cultural history of communal storytelling #in the pre modern era (pretty much all of time up to the Industrial Revolution [1780]) all storytelling was communal #most cultures - but specifically Western Europe - had an oral tradition #religion and mythology were the basis of society #storytelling was engrained into the culture #then in the modern era (Industrial Revolution until the 1970s) communal storytelling is still prevelant but it’s become organized #going to the theatre was a Big Thing #same with going to the cinema once film was invented #music was performed in front of large audiences #as the oral tradition gives way to a literary one fewer people are able to Become Storytellers #but they’re also able to share their work with more people #then you get to the post modern era and that all goes away #theatre and concerts are a privilege that few can afford #music and movies are easily available via streaming but that makes them individual experiences #books are prominent and oral storytelling is nearly nonexistent #even audio books are an individual thing #but then comes fanfiction and TTRPGs #which are underground and often scorned by the mainstream to an excessive degree #which is just #fascinating #wit rambles

[night-for-night]

concrete rising - jsq, jc, nj - yashica mg-1 & expired 400 speed color film - developed at eliz digital & scanned with minolta dimage dual iii

#construction #men at work #hi vis workwear #infrastructure #heavy industry #machinery #machines #mechanical #orange #buildings #architecture #modern architecture #construction workers #35mm #film photography #film #35mm photography #35mm color photography #city #urban landscape

[randbitb]

Timothy rand you would have loved dnd honor amongst thieves

#movie ever of sticking it to the man and by the man I mean the modern film industry cgi for everything movement . #gunky post

[msclaritea]

Jesus fucking Christ.

#benedict cumberbatch #The Roses #FUCKED IN THE HEAD FREEMASONS #Scortish Rite #DISNEY #MARVEL #Team Z #Adam Ackland #Navalny #Rosemary Joy Glover #Harvey Weinstein castoffs #Merovingian #Jay Z #Book of Clarence #National Football League Are A Bunch Of Sick Bastards #ANL #Freemason run #Robert Downey Jr #Mark Ruffalo #Mont Blanc #PEN America #The Courtauld #Modern Slavery In British Film Industry #The BBC #Russell T Davies #Spencer #David Tennant #Joe Biden #Bill Clinton #Barack Obama

[meatmensch]

idk why i didn't trust y'all but glass onion is super good holy shit

#ive just been so let down by big movies lately :( modern film industry keeps churning out such horeshit. but this is so good holy shit #glass onion