In an interview at the Sundance Film Festival (is it still?), Director Quentin Tarantino said the movie died in 2019:
What is the current movie? What is the current movie? It is played in the theater for a four -week token release, and you can watch it on TV by the second week. I was not involved in all of these to reduce all of these. … In 2019, it was bad enough, that was the last year of the movie. And it was a transaction for me as far as I could. The fact that it worsened significantly, the fact that it was a pony exercise of the show -release of theater. theater? You can't do it. theater? Yeah, I pay a lot to take the seat. However, there is no fucking to tap it. There is no fucking mobile phone. … You own a audience … and that's not just art. That is to surprise them. It is to give them a wonderful night worth it, and for me it is exciting.
The background here is that Tarantino is currently working on the play. So he explains why it excites him rather than making another movie.
The 61 -year -old Oscar winner repeatedly said that his next movie would be the last. Film critic When Brad Pitt decides to move to play lighting, he starred.
The obvious division between 2019 and today is the pandemic of the community, which has changed the theater business forever. Here, theater release is now available in a few weeks to provide paper view. The three -month window was shattering forever.
This makes sense from a business perspective. The studio wants to get a viewer tied to those homes while the media is still hot. Why do you pay for two advertising campaigns, a theater and a house?
Tarantino does not talk from business or artistic perspectives. He is talking about today's entertainment world, that is, as a showman. “And it's not just art,” he said. “It's surprisingly surprising them. It's about giving them a wonderful night worth it, and it's exciting for me.”
that's right.
For Tarantino, it is (or almost) grabbing the audience in the throat through a common experience to knock out of them. As a showman, that is important.
Imagine you make a roller coaster, and you believe it is the largest roller coaster created so far, but only one person rides. As a Creator, you lose the satisfaction of the group that has experienced your creation, which is very different.
If Tarantino hits, the group experience happens every night. If he has a hit movie, the group experience begins to shrink the hit movie a few weeks later.
It seems to be what Tarantino reduces returns.
Another problem is a method in which streaming (including paper view) reduces movies to mere content. It used to be special, so special people had to leave the house and see them. Yes, there was always a television movie, but there were two tough lines between them. It is gone, and the erasure of the line is not enhancing television movies, so all movies are reduced.
As you know, TV movies were once considered special. This week's movie or HBO movie -they were not events like theatrical events, but they still left the mark.
At this point, I see most streaming movies as worse than content. I call them a filler.
Tarantino did not mention the quality of the movie, which is also a factor. Previously, going to a movie was a pretty certain bet. It was rare to get out of the disappointed movie. Today, a movie rarely feels worthy of your time and money. How often do you feel worth two hours even if you catch a new movie for free on Amazon or Pluto?
Besides reviewing BreitBart's new movie, I have receded in the past, but I rarely disappoint. Just the other day, I watched a 1954 movie that I had never even heard. Drive on the bent road Starring Mickey Rooney. It was a low -budget -independent noir distributed by Colombian photos and the best “new” films I've seen. Same as the 1957 movie starring Jeff Chandler and Orson Wells Man in the shadow。 A “problem” movie about the cold -blooded murder of Mexico immigrants, and a movie about the fact that the white sheriff overcomes their prejudice and the town must do the right thing.
They may be a 85 -minute programmer, but they are 70 years old, but Woketards is not a programmed robot to check the box, but through a character with a relationship that behaves like a real person. There is something I want to say about the human condition.
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