Legendary director Richard Linklater has criticized Hollywood filmmakers for making kids-oriented movies that lack sex appeal, but he also said he sympathizes with a generation that is simultaneously bombarded with kid-friendly films and exposed to pornography.
“This is Hollywood. This is a film for this generation. It’s just not for adults. I think when superheroes first emerged it was pretty clear that they didn’t have genitalia,” Linklater said on the podcast.Mixed Signals“
The director, whose work includes classics such as “Beyond and Confused” and “School of Rock,” said Hollywood is trying to keep people forever young, believing it’s more profitable to make films that are generally compelling and convince adults that they’re good.
“Oh, I’m glad I’m not a kid anymore. When I was a teenager, between 10 and 13 years old… the only reason I went to the movies was to see a movie… because they were all adult movies. I had to find a way to get into them. Now they’re making movies for 12-year-olds. They’ve successfully convinced adults that those movies were good movies. Stay a kid. Keep reading comics. That’s movies. They’ve abandoned adult moviemaking and all of its complexities, sex included. They’ve pretty much abandoned it. That’s the way the studios do it. They just thought it would probably be more profitable to make movies just for kids, and the kid in all of us.”
“I think there’s a generation of adults out there right now who have been exposed to pornography their whole lives.”
Film director Cody Clark He likened Hollywood’s tactics to “wearing a 12-pound weight forever and never putting on more.”
“Giving the audience a little more than they can handle, and then a little more so they can grow as people, just doesn’t work anymore.”
“There’s nothing intellectually or emotionally stimulating anymore in what the studios are producing,” Clark told Blaze News, agreeing that there is no real difference between modern films marketed to children and those marketed to adults.
“There are countless old R-rated movies that feel like reading a complex, interesting novel,” but studios have always chosen to give audiences “easy fare,” he said.
Linklater acknowledged that the #MeToo movement has made it easier for the film to be “sex-free.” [scenes]”
But he cut his comments short, suggesting that if his words “create the wrong impression or cause offense, then don’t even talk about it.”[] who.”
“But then why do anything?” he added.
Digging deeper into the topic of sex in film, the director theorized that a film doesn’t just have to have sex in it, nor does it have to be “hardcore.”
He explained that today’s generation is constantly bombarded with pornography, so there is even less need for it in films.
“I think the generation that’s now coming of age has been exposed to porn all their lives. Speaking as an older guy, when I was growing up Playboy was all topless. Gradually, porn became more prevalent. There was very little porn. I think sex is everywhere. It’s boring. It doesn’t really fit the story and it feels unnecessary. I think you have to work to get sex into your films and your stories,” Linklater said.
“Everybody’s distracted,” Linklater said of why Gen Z isn’t interested in sex or socializing.
“I’m not saying anything original. If you stare at your phone all day, you’re not going to be as social.”
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