Ex-Hollywood Writer: Why Modern Movies Suck

whole premise of wokeness is there is no spiritual life there's only Power everything that we believe in is power femininity is power masculinity the constructs of power and so they can't say anything you can't you can't say anything about what it is to be a human being you know I've always thought what would it what would happen if you told a story in which a woman character starts out as a powerful business woman and then says you know what I don't want to do this I want to make a family I want to I want a man to take care of me so I can do this you know you can't make that movie what's going on with the movies I can't remember I mean there's the odd movie that comes along I go oh I'd like to see that but nothing really compels me like it used to yeah what's going on well there's there's two things one is that art forms have a natural life cycle uh you know they can come back they don't necessarily die forever but they rise up at their Peak usually very early on to me the peak year of the movies is 1939 I mean and what happens at that Peak is that the popular movies and the critically acclaimed movies are the same movie so when you get it when you get oh I see where this is going well it's true you know you've got an era like where the theater is thriving Shakespeare is the popular playwright uh you get the novels are thriving Dickens you know one of the greatest novel novelists ever is also the best-selling novelist 1939 if you look at the 10 Oscar nominees they're also some of the greatest films ever made including the Wizard of Oz and you know I don't know if Gone With the Wind was that year but it's almost that year um Mr Smith one of the Frank Capital as an art form ages out they split into uh popular trash like these Marvel movies these superhero movies and these kind of tiny little intellectual exercises that the critics think are oh so important but the rest of us can't stay awake through and that that's the one thing that's happening it's simply a matter of the art form aging out and a lot of that energy went over to TV in the 2000s the early 2000s I remember watching a show here called the shield and thinking oh gee they're doing everything I did in the golden the second golden age of mystery writing I was writing characters just like this and now they've all moved over to TV and that and we had 20 years of great TV here I mean it was really brilliant stuff but the other thing is this this idea of of wokeness which is actually uh a very deep we use it as a slogan uh as a catch word but it's actually a very deep philosophical moment it is the bottom of atheistic philosophy and it's impossible to make a good story out of it because it has no inner life it the whole the whole premise of wokeness is there is no spiritual life there's only Power everything that we believe in is power femininity is power masculinity the constructs of power and so they can't say anything you can't you can't say anything about what it is to be a human being you know uh there is we're talking about there are no women characters I've always thought what would it what would happen if you told a story in which a woman character starts out as a powerful business woman and then says you know what I don't want to do this I want to make a family I want to I want a man to take care of me so I can do this you know you can't make that movie and yet that is the movie right you can't make a movie where a guy comes to town and builds a business and he's the hero of the movie you know because it's all about power so if he has power he must be the bad guy when you get rid of the spiritual life there's only Power and and that's not a good story wow you know what you're investment of uh to I don't know if you're familiar with him he was a KGB Defector uh from the Soviet Union yeah uh in in the like he has lectures on YouTube and this is uh this is one of the things he talked about how in the movies at certain point uh the police the generals the army they all became the bad guys the criminal is the good one the the KGB uh not not the KGB the army colonel he's always the dumb one that whatever but I want to come back to the first of those two Andrew because what you're talking about is a perfect metaphor for politics more broadly because you you have a an elite that is so up its own us it is completely out of touch with ordinary person and so which is typical by the way right well right and so that's why the movie or that that there's the screen the screenshots from like the Rotten Tomatoes ratings for comedy shows like a Dave Chappelle latest show or a movie and now their their parody is on themselves where like critics 100 you know uh for the for they like or dislike something and it's the opposite way for the ordinary person right and it seems to me like it's not just about aging out it's about a fundamental Detachment of the people in in a in like in this case in Hollywood from the people who they're supposed to provide services or content or whatever it is but this is how this is how an art form dies it is it is a coagulation of power in a way you know we're sitting a few miles from Washington in Washington you can go to Georgetown named after Washington and walk down the street that used to be called Washington Street with inside of the Washington Monument in the middle of Washington DC so you can get the picture that George Washington's had a lot of a big effect on this um on this country and the thing that is Washington's signal moment is having defeated the British in this defeated the greatest Empire on Earth with this ragtag band of you know half starlings uh that wandering around in the snow he's got he's the king of a continent he can be the king of a continent there was nothing to stop him and he takes he goes to uh somewhere in Maryland and Annapolis and he turns over his sword to the civilian Powers because he believed that much in the idea of The Sovereign people that also just like you said has aged out so that at that moment the most popular man in America was also the best man in America and probably one of the best men who ever lived you know he was like but he was also now like the people who are popular are completely detached from the the power and the people who are powerful are completely detached from the people um the Advent of Donald Trump which even at the time I said you know this is a tragic moment when it takes a man like Donald Trump to speak for the people because everybody and you saw the way the power Just Came to shut him down this is not about whether Trump's a nice person or a good person or anything like that it's simply what he represented to people for for 50 years 50 years the powers that be told people in this country you stink your country stinks your religion stinks your cut the color of your skin stinks everything about your history it stinks you know like your God doesn't exist and then they thought well why did they elect Donald Trump you know my feeling was you're lucky they didn't show up outside your house with a torch and a pick Pitchfork and toss you into the Potomac you know this was the nice thing electing Donald Trump was the nice thing to do so you're absolutely right I mean I think that um as as people people think their way out of morality as as they think their way out of your individuality the importance of your individuality it's easy for me to feel my individuality and my reality but you have to have to sort of really think about it to think oh you know maybe that guy sitting across from you is just as important to himself as I am to me and and that we're both equally important to God then you have art then you have the enlightenment then you know once you get that idea then you have all the kind of beautiful things that that Europe produced and once you lose that idea you lose everything and and I think you're absolutely right that kind of coagulation of of power money uh political ideas in in an aristocracy that does not care anymore for the people that has no no bless oblige is the way a country ages out as well and you can see it but going back to this idea of the movies where the values that America used to embody and use to celebrate if you think about the movies of the 80s and 90s strength resilience Independence taking responsibility for yourself you look at the movies now and they just it's unrecognizable you think to yourself what message are you trying to send me how are you trying to inspire me yes well that's well that is a you know it's an amazing thing the people who built the movie industry the people who made the movies I love and probably you love as well many of them were immigrants many of them were Jews and they love this place they loved America I mean because they'd seen what the rest of the world was like especially the Jewish guys they knew exactly what what they had going on in America and they were liberal in the sense that they wanted to be included but they were businessmen who thought their business depended on the audience liking what they did so if the audience was Christian they give them Christians they have a scene where the Christian guy would be nice to a Jew and then and you know that would give you a good feeling and they would say yes we're part of this country too and everybody said yes you are that that was great stuff but they loved they may not have loved the people uh individually but they love them as the audience they were their source of their income they were the source of their popularity their power everything and they served them they served the people partially because the studio system was destroyed by the courts the essentially the inmates took over the Asylum uh in Hollywood this is part of the the deaths uh throws of the industry but you had this moment when they lost the studio system Studios had a monopoly they had a monopoly on theaters the court said you can't they it was a trust busting case and they destroyed that so ultimately now power rested with actors and not with businessmen and so you got you have actors who were great businessmen like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Cruise they're great businessmen but they're still not about the people those are bad examples because Cruz and Schwarzenegger actually are about the people but so many of these guys you know you make a movie even an Oscar to a movie like what was it called Moonlight was that was what it was called it was when oscar-winning film about a black gay guy discovering that he's gay you know it wasn't a bad film but it was like a slice of Life about this you know like this and then you think about Gone With the Wind you think about the movies that have won Oscars gave you all of life you know they gave you so many think Casablanca I mean that that movie you can watch that movie today you can watch it twice in a row today and it'll still break your heart whereas you know a black gay guy in the in the ghetto is an interesting story I'll watch that once you know but it's not it's not telling me something that I need to know to get forward in life whereas the fact that sometimes you have to give up the thing you love for a greater cause is something I needed to know the movies shaped you know it's funny the Arts shaped me you know I I wasn't happy at home I had a bad relationship with my dad I went to the first to novels and then to movies for male role models and I found Bogart John Wayne these you know Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlow the great detective guy Sam Spade um and they taught me these simple things you know they taught me how to walk they taught me you know how to what you what you would sacrifice for they taught me that you would sacrifice for something during the pandemic recently there was this moment when Donald Trump got covered and he came back to the White House and he said I've now I've had covet Don't Be Afraid don't let it dominate your life and there is this Montage that I play on my show from time to time of the news media coming out going what a horrible thing to do of course you should be afraid of course this this could kill you what's wrong you know that and I I don't know if I was the last person in America with all those movies in my head saying wait a minute you know there are there are things that are more important than dying you know like slavery like being like losing your freedom like losing your dignity like you know losing the chance to be the thing that you want to be people have died for all those things through time and yet here with the news that was the news media one of them after another say no no no that mean awful Donald Trump you know you must be afraid you must be afraid and then they sit around going why would anybody vote for Donald Trump you know these are the things we learned from the movies uh and we learned them before that from you know British novels I think more than anything else uh and these are the things that are gone in my opinion from a world without God because why would you why would you risk your life if there's nothing Beyond yourself you know why would you risk your life for anything if there's nothing Beyond yourself if something doesn't have a quality of the Eternal to it uh like Freedom like uh you know justice of those things why would you die for them if uh if everything is just material you know you're here you're gone and that's the reason I'm such a huge Arthur Miller fan the playwright Arthur Miller and his wife for me the the play The Crucible resonates harder than ever especially now yeah when you have Proctor and he gives John Procter at the end when he's about to he's about to die and he refuses to give give up the anybody else and he says but leave me my name that's all I have that's all that any man has yes and and then think you know with Andrew Cuomo who has made a hero he was the governor of New York yeah and he was made into a hero the anti-trump yeah and he said you know we have to do all this stuff because it's death and nothing is worse than death death is death and death when you're dead you're dead you know who are these people like like run and hide everybody and and you know this is this is kind of the instrument of power everything is a catastrophe everything is an emergency the climate is an emergency you go like you know it's it's a little warm today oh my it's an emergency give me more power you know racism is an emergency reason this is a health emergency you know give us more power uh the covet is emerging give us more power there's always back to that you know it's always basically they're gonna take care of you foreign

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Published: Tue Jun 06 2023