Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney

Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by echelon on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @09:57PM (#21469993)

> media is not fungible.

It could be. Imagine a world where movies don't cost millions of dollars to make.

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by aidenn0 on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:20PM (#21470111)

It's not about costs. Regardless of budget, I can't make a star wars movie.

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by echelon on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @11:26PM (#21470379)

Imagine a world where you could.

It's a tooling problem more than a budget one.

In fifty years I think we'll be telling the machines what stories we want to experience. But between now and that dreamy future, there are intermediate points along the path that empower individual or small groups of creatives to lift mountains - I think of it much in the same way as languages and tools and libraries make it so we don't have to string together vacuum tubes to solve our problems. Think about the kinds of problems filmmakers face: writing a cohesive narrative, finding and lighting a scene, editing massive amounts of video. It's all just a problem of tooling.

When there is a way that lets you or anyone with an ounce of creativity turn their dreams into polished, watchable content, it will democratize storytelling.

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by apatters on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:01AM (#21470819)

The tools and even the content itself don't really seem to be the fulcrum of a content business. As thousands of derivativr pop songs and mediocre AAA video games attest, it's all about distribution. Those are industries where the tools are already democratized and it doesn't matter. Building, acquiring, partnering with, monopolizing the largest distribution channels wins you the revenue war.

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by aidenn0 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @02:10AM (#21471103)

I meant that if I made a star wars movie, I would be sued.

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by scarface74 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:11PM (#21479456)

I can't make a star wars movie.

If you have ever seen the prequels, neither can George Lucas....

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by acdha on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:25PM (#21479502)

Not without his first wife (Marcia Lucas, also known for editing Taxi Driver) — I increasingly suspect most of these Great Man narratives are simply omitting the rest of the team.

https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/media/the-secret-we...

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by naringas on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:15PM (#21470080)

how would that make movies indistinguishable from each other?

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Re:Bob Iger, the man who animated Disney by CharlesW on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @10:27PM (#21470138)

Also, you don't need millions to make a movie.

https://www.webfilmschool.com/independent-filmmaking-the-7-m...

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