All big production movies are deep, thoughtful things. People are assigned exacting roles from script to camera angle to set color. Each is a professional with a purpose, and that purpose is not to entertain you, but to make you pay money to be influenced, in a subtle way, in the time you're most vulnerable - the time when you've voluntarily suspended all of your attachment to reality, all of your critical thinking, and immersed yourself, open-minded, into a story they've crafted. When you say it's a 'popcorn movie', you admit that they were precisely successful; that you have no idea what they did. And they changed you, just a little bit; nothing noticeable; the long game; death by a thousand cuts. Slowly, subtly, they sculpt culture through entertainment.
The Weinsteins wanted you to see Django Unchained. Hollywood wanted you to see Django Unchained. China wanted you to see Django Unchained. And Django Unchained isn't alone. Awareness is the only antidote.
All big production movies are deep, thoughtful things. People are assigned exacting roles from script to camera angle to set color. Each is a professional with a purpose, and that purpose is not to entertain you, but to make you pay money to be influenced, in a subtle way, in the time you're most vulnerable - the time when you've voluntarily suspended all of your attachment to reality, all of your critical thinking, and immersed yourself, open-minded, into a story they've crafted. When you say it's a 'popcorn movie', you admit that they were precisely successful; that you have no idea what they did. And they changed you, just a little bit; nothing noticeable; the long game; death by a thousand cuts. Slowly, subtly, they sculpt culture through entertainment.
The Weinsteins wanted you to see Django Unchained. Hollywood wanted you to see Django Unchained. China wanted you to see Django Unchained. And Django Unchained isn't alone. Awareness is the only antidote.