Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring...
by prepend on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:24AM
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I have a morbid fear that studios want the “conflict” as it’s 1) news and any news is good news, 2) set up a right vs wrong narrative that puts their tv show on the right side against whatever jerks are being racist/sexist/whatever.
So it seems like a non-creative way to get free promotion, but I think it distracts from storytelling.
The example I remember is how bad the 2016 ghostbusters reboot was. And the studio had this whole narrative about how sexist trolls were maligning the movie and this got repeated with any criticism. It seemed like astroturf that highlighted a small amount of internet sexist complaining and used it to smear any criticism for any reason. That seems like something that would be attractive to a beancounter-type.
Re:Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Ring...
by bsaul on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:45AM
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very interesting theory... I used to attribute those choices to lazyness and "playing it safe", but your point is a reall possibility. I sincerely hope you're wrong though.
So it seems like a non-creative way to get free promotion, but I think it distracts from storytelling.
The example I remember is how bad the 2016 ghostbusters reboot was. And the studio had this whole narrative about how sexist trolls were maligning the movie and this got repeated with any criticism. It seemed like astroturf that highlighted a small amount of internet sexist complaining and used it to smear any criticism for any reason. That seems like something that would be attractive to a beancounter-type.