An Anthology of Professional Woes video made the rounds recently, lamenting the fact that many Hollywood professionals have been out of work for so long that they are now at the end of their collective ropes. They seem to be asking for some kind of assistance… presumably from the half of the country that they have mocked, denigrated, laughed at and insulted for the last two generations. It’s kind of hard to feel sympathy for people who knowingly — usually gleefully — chased half of their audience (and paychecks) away.
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Bill, your bit about the talking dog reminds me of the old Simpsons episode Beyond Blunderdome (with Mel Gibson) where Homer wants the shifty-eyed dog plot device. Good times.
Bill: I worked for GE. The 3 scariest words in the world is ‘What if we…’\
You then slam your head on the table because corporate has this strange hangup about doing blunt force on executives.
I’d be careful when you go to your car, Bill.
So happy to have all of those ‘old’ flicks still around…
As a former teamster, here are a few more. Why is the Teamster mascot a horse? It is another animal that sleeps standing up. How many Teamsters does it take to change a light bulb? Seven, you got a problem with that?
Artificial Intelligence is sooner than you think going to create a massive wave of “Hollywood” unemployment. Lots of humongous sets here in Georgia will be replaced by green screens. Huge producers here in Buckhead just shut down plans for a large expansion program b/o the future of AI. It will be a bloody mess.
Not green screens, LED walls. That’s the future of virtual sets. Bill himself used them on ‘Empire of Terror’.
But, yeah. With the advent of these new technologies, H-wood can be anywhere. A warehouse in Dallas, Chattanooga, Atlanta, etc. The “center of film-making” is over.
So are the big studios.
this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to2SMng4u1k
IS the BEST Star Wars remake EVER. I would produce a FULL remake using these people. Can you find them?
Hollywood did this to itself. It intentionally and knowingly committed suicide. I have no sympathy nor regard for those who suffer self-inflicted wounds. Hollywood didn’t become a “thing” overnight and it’s not going to unbecome a thing overnight either. Even so, Hollywood made the common mistake of thinking that once it became a thing we would always need that thing. We didn’t need it before it came along and we won’t miss it when it’s gone. The really sad part is that it didn’t have to be this way. With all the resources at Hollywood’s disposal they could have continued… Read more »
The situation reminds me of an entry from Douglas Adam’s “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. It describes a world where all of the useless people, like the official telephone sanitizers, have somehow risen to be in charge of everything. We have become that world!
Or Idiocracy.
It has electrolytes.
I’ve always been a fan of Douglas Adam’s HHGttG series. Got some weird looks and pointed questions one time coming back into the US through customs with a copy of the first book in my luggage.
There’s no way I haven’t read that bit. I don’t remember that part in the book but no doubt it’s stuck with me even so.
“This is what happens when you listen to, heed and act on the mores of the idiots among you. There are always people in any group who are one form of idiot or another. People who for whatever reason would not normally or should not be allowed to rise to a position of control in the group.”
This is Scott Adams’ “Dilbert Principle” writ large.
The idiots have risen to the level of their own incompetence. Which happened to be Studio Head…