Ex-Hollywood Writer: Why Modern Movies Suck
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2023
- 💥Join us on our Journey to 1 Million Subscribers💥 Andrew Klavan is a crime and suspense novelist whose works have been adapted into films such as 'True Crime,' starring Clint Eastwood, and 'Don't Say a Word,' starring Michael Douglas. In addition, he has written screenplays for several films. He now hosts 'The Andrew Klavan Show' on The Daily Wire. #hollywood #movies #andrewklavan
In this clip, Andrew discusses the current state of Hollywood's movie output, where he thinks they are going wrong, the golden age of cinema, how modern movies portray female characters, how TV series have experienced a golden age over the past 20 years and how wokeness is at the centre of Hollywood's current problems.
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🤔🤔 WOKE has taught us something...that ALL religions are just ancient WOKE...we havent shaken off yet.. sorry to burst your bubble... I THINK, THEREFORE I AM . GOD... and I wrote it down and called it " the bible "....then some other guy edited it...
This guy Andrew was great. Spot on, on everything.
Andrew Klavan, Donald Trump espouses the polar opposite of your values. The man really IS all for himself every second of the day. Thumbs down for your delusion.
Wokeness is the materialised atheist culture because it really is marxist and Marxism ia atheist as well.
watch some of edward dutton's discussion on religion and its relationship to trust in society, and the mechanism it plays in raising iq, innovation, and breeding genius. it parallels some of the things klavan mentioned about the lack of religiosity and trust in modern american civics, media, arts and entertainment. these positions of power and influence are only interested in the accumulation of power for the purpose of entrenchment. i'm an atheist possibly a doubtful agnostic, but religiosity seems to be a highly moderating influence on selfish human behavior possibly something our brains evolved to co-operate and function under. the new pseudo religion of the woke elites is something that might be naturally selected in a short while as being maladaptive and malignant, at least i hope so.
Wokeness ruins everything
UUGGHH Saaame oooold stooory - you'd think the smart ppl with money to make movies would've learned this by now. Almost as if they're sticking to the indoctrinating nonsense on purpose... hmmmmmm
And that is the entire point.
@@mrsteve170 Destroy Western Civilization.
Everything and then some. These people cry about not being able to use their preferred bathroom. I cry when I lose a loved one. Their emotional intelligence level is in the negative.
@@gabriel7664 They are bunch of losers. That's why they want to destroy everything.
I finally figured out why Hollywood can _only_ copy now. Because the writers now, are the first adults that don't know anything other than the internet. None of them have experienced anything real. None of them have confronted anything that matters. They've seen the world through a screen. That's also why there are so many movies that deconstruct something. Because the writers now have no experiences of their own, they only have the experiences of others. And the only thing you can do with that is to analyze what you've seen. We're not just coming to the end of movies, but the end of our society.
Deep
You're probably thinking that comment was some pretty deep stuff, and you'd be right.
Brilliant analysis. And succinct.
Progressives are totally devoid of talent. They can’t create anything new that speaks to anyone and are too lazy to build something from the ground up. All they can do is hijack properties some white guy made popular decades ago and try to infuse it with their BS, but no one but blue city idiots will buy it.
i think it is the absence of true boredom as children. boredom will unlock imagination and creation. since television, video games, etc. the mind is entertained constantly now.
How right he is! To me the root of the cause is the lack of culture in the industry. They only care about money but especially they know nothing of philosophy, the arts, the classics. Those are not just "knowledge", those are formative works that give you perspective into the human history and psyche. That's why they take themselves sooo seriously -nothing has a real sense of humor anymore.
The story Andrew describes feels like Baby Boom with Dianne Keaton. She starts out as a powerful business woman, inherits a baby from her distant cousin who dies and tries to give it up for adoption but realizes she can’t do it. It’s all about a career woman who never wanted kids becoming a mom, if you like feel good 90s films it’s a good one.
Yep, its a touching film that NO ONE in Hollywood would green light today because the woke Twitter mob would freak out.
Yeah it’s a great movie and it’s from the 80s
A really good movie
I was thinking the same thing except in the movie she creates her own company which competes with her own! Etc!
87 film
So I watched Rambo for the first time about two days ago. All I'd ever heard about it was "war movie" so I avoided it for 40 something years. What a revelation it was. Here was a man who had been willing to fight, and die, for something bigger than himself. He loved his country and wanted to keep it safe. That rawness at the end when he finally lets go of the grief and horror hes been carrying... I'm not ashamed to admit it made me cry.
Now that's some god damn storytelling. You want to copy something, Hollywood? Go find something real, something that matters, and then write a character that cares about it.
I show my kids all good 80s movies and they love it. First blood is one of their favourites.
Yes. Vivid. Raw. Deep and complex. And if you unroll the plot-line in your mind or words, years later, its impact will still be summoned.
That's not relatable anymore because no one cares about anything anymore
What? But better late than never i guess.
Yep. And Richard Creena learnt the script the day before the shoot.
My brother-in-law is a screenwriter who finds himself constantly unable to participate in the utter rubbish they're putting on screens today.
I'll tell him once it's out his hands and if you want the real download the script or book
I'm an award-winning author and I absolutely loathe the uninspired gutter trash Hollywon't is plopping out from its cantankerous, cancerous colon.
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Self censorship is the death of art.
Same here
I really hope creative talents will forge new alliances and business ventures and let the studios whom cannot produce good quality anymore fail out and fade away.
I’m 80 and encountered my first screen in 1948. My grandfather’s 12 inch Dumont B&W TV. I can still remember watching the Republican convention that nominated Dewey and how it reworked my brain. Everything on the TV was more exciting, more involving than real life. I can remember telling my mother, beside myself with excitement, about the cowboy in a western: “He had two guns!” I have since adapted to computer screens, this iPad screen, and the phone screen. Become used to being able to look up just about anything on line and be reading an e-book about it 5 minutes later. But the loss of meaning you talk about is a positive thing to me as I approach death. The last time I do this or that no longer holds me. That part of me hasn’t died, I have died to it. I have come some fair way to dying to myself. Come to see and accept my insignificance and the insignificance of my end. I call it Holy Indifference. Some things still compel my attention. Certain forms of prayer and meditation, art projects, and intellectual understandings that are still possible. But all those must go in the end and I’m increasingly ok with that. Anyhow that my view from 80.
Thank you mate
That was beautiful and sad to read
Thank you for sharing this perspective with us
Read every word
Thank you for this, sir.
There has been many moments in my life where a memory of a good movie or story has helped me carry on. I can only imagine kids growing up with movies and shows we have today, if there will be a single life lesson they'll remember when things get hard.
Exactly! I feel so bad for kids they will never experience the joy of finding inspiration in a film! I used to be so moved by kids movies as a kid. The under dog story. It inspired me to fight hard in life.
Writers back in the day used to have to have some life experience they could draw on to write good stories. Today most Hollywood writers come into the business directly from liberal universities without having any life experience, and their writing demonstrates that lack of lived experience.
Reminds me of that _Simpsons_ joke in which a young writer retorts that he wrote his thesis on life experience.
"Reflect upon the Past.
Embrace your Present.
Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis
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"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
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--Diamond Dragons (series)
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They are entitled narcs and their "heroes" are also entitled narcs.
Thank you!
I’ve been going back and watching movies from the 1990’s that I never saw. What an incredible decade for quality dramas. Probably the last great decade for films.
Early 2000s was awesome as well. It was the last great one.
Even films with bad cgi back in the 70-80s are better
I watch Scream 6 then I decided to watch the medicore or so I thought I still know what you did last summer it was so much fun
Now do the 1960s and 1970s.
If you think the movies from the 1990s are great, you should go back further, they are even better.
Destroying the studio system gave us the greatest era of movies in the 70s.
The writers guild is on strike. Best gift they could give the world.
Movies today are not inspirational, they are desperational.
I grew up on Star Trek and fell in love with the duty, honor, integrity, sacrifice yourself to protect others, taking risks, etc.
Sacrificing love for the sake of the future "City on the edge of Forever". Or the change and honesty of the officer in "The Corbomite Manoeuvre".
This still exists, especially in anime. In The Eminence in Shadow, episode 17, Moonlight That Pierces the Darkness, one of the characters, Rose, has discovered her father, the leader of a peaceful country, is drugged and forced to obey an evil cult. Rose attempts to kill the cult leader, but fails and instead the cult leader claims she has gone mad and she is forced to run and hide in the sewers. To make matters worse she is dying of a disease which the cult has encouraged to spread, so alone, dying, with her family either drugged or convinced she is mad she considers what to do.
At that moment in the sewers she hears someone playing moonlight sonata on a piano and she finds this so unusual she follows it to its source. There she sees the main protagonist, the shadow, who is himself a deeply flawed character, playing the piano. When the shadow finished he then faces Rose and asked her if she is going to give up, or is willing to fight until her last breath. Confused, Rose states she is helpless and doomed and she cannot do anything. Then the shadow offers her power to achieve what she wants, if she is willing to fight. Rose accepts and is cured by the shadow. She realises she must free her father by killing him, before she ends her own life. It’s a really deep and moving scene.
The closest analogy to the cult is the woke establishment, if you really think about it carefully enough.
You would make a great soldier to die for America’s politicians.
There is a machine gun nest that needs to be charged somewhere with your name on it, hero.
Also, inherent in Star Trek is the belief that the future can be a better place. You sure as hell don't see that in current abomination that is called Star Trek; particularly in Discovery and Picard (The first two seasons). The Federation is corrupt and no longer lives up to its ideals. A Federation starship captain can also be a sadistic monster. The people who write this garbage don't have the talent to create anything of quality that's original, they can only take and deform someone else's creation with the excuse that they are writing for a "modern audience."
I think my life long love of Trek also is a reason I see people as Humans (Terrans if im looking in a mirror darkly) and not as Brits, Aussies, Yanks etc - basically the human race and not any of these other nonsense labels that try and differentiate us.
Also, another factor adding to the worsening of the movie industry is the need to create FRANCHISES of movies. It isn't enough to make a movie, there has to be a sequel, a prequel, the second sequel, a tie-in, and a tie-in to the tie-in. So much so that the originality of creating a movie is gone -- as long as it makes money.
Thank you SO MUCH for this! This man is so wonderful, and he knows his movie history and how they shaped our culture and our country. I was born in 1971, and my grandparents were the greatest generation. They raised me on classic Hollywood films, stars, and the studio system. I would rather watch any film from before 1970 than anything after. I'm so glad this was in my feed this morning!
We're either bereft of talented writers, or talented writers are not being given opportunities or the creative space to write without outside interference
I think talented simply ignore their talent for the sake of woke signaling. That's why even once great filmmakers now suck cause they sold out to the woke crowd. Talented people enter the industry and then get brainwashed into ignoring all their innovative ideas forbthe sake of "the message".
how the hell you can write or do anything creative when you have a blue-haired ghoul standing over your shoulder making sure everything conforms to her social justice vision of the world?
edit: worse, these people get into HR first, and take control of the hiring process. You don't even get the job unless you signal the correct ideological commitments. That's why there's so much "BLM flag, trans flag, ukraine flag, pronouns in the bio" conformist cronyism in the linkedin corporate world.
They aren't being given opportunities.
Combo of both I think. The talented writers aren't allowed to do their best because of woke policies. And, fewer people are being taught how to be good writer's. That takes both a motivated person to learn, and a motivated person to teach. So the wokeness take the motivation away. Leaving hallow people in need of something to feel connected to. Then the woke swoop in and save them from their emptiness. See the narsasitic circle?
@@carolynrogers1243 Yep, and being told you can't write outside of your own experience. I remember seeing something for YA novelists a while back. "If your character is not your ethnicity/sex than you'd better not write them. If you do feel they should be included than you need to get an "appropriate reviewer" to make sure the character is" ...I was going to say authentic, but they don't care about that..."shown in the best light."
I watch Korean, Chinese, and Japanese dramas. There is no wokeness and no political correctness.
I enjoy watching Kdramas as well, and considering the influence of Netflix, I have some concerns about the potential overwhelming impact of "wokeness." Netflix recently announced a $2.5 billion investment in South Korea to produce Korean TV series over the next four years. Although there are certainly benefits to this collaboration, it also raises valid points for concern.
Over the years, I've observed a noticeable shift in the storytelling of Netflix Kdramas, with the increasing presence of "wokeness" in recent times. Having started watching Kdramas over a decade ago, I have witnessed this evolving trend.
@@mosibyl779 I’ve had that concern too
@@mosibyl779 I primarily am streaming on Viki Rakutan an Asian channel. The series I watch are not made for Netflix, though some are also broadcast on Netflix.
It’s starting to filter in slowly and almost undetectable due to the cultural lens.
Yes! A character in a story needs an arc where the character learns something and grows. The problem of a character going from being a bubble of power to a bubble of power is there's no growth, the character is just always perfectly complete. What is required is an experience that humbles the character, where they need to come back from, triumph.
Scarface. Tony didn't learn a thing.
The problem is, they are not only overpowered, but they never abuse their power and they never make mistakes. I like to watch Anime series and movies and sometimes there are characters ridiculously overpowered, but they are not perfect, they can't always protect the weak or even care to protect them, they sometimes abuse their power and so on.... but a woke overpowered character is actually a being without soul, they never make mistakes, they never abuses their power.... also that being has plot armor in addition to their power.... i.e. even when they appear weak their enemies can't do anything, because it has plot armor.
Being overpowered doesn't mean you'll always going to make "the right decision" sometimes you make mistakes... but not in the woke movies. There they are always right and always stronger and don't have any flaws or their flaws are superficial i.e. even if they have some "flaw" it's not a "real flaw" and it actually doesn't matter.
@ddsjgvk he was written that way and he paid the price.
Everyone just want to be a victim and pleasing others today. Modern Movies gotten too real world political, trash and boring.
My husband and I were saying the other day how movies have changed. When I was growing up I watched movies like “The Secret of my Success”, “Working Girl”, “Trading Places”, “Karate Kid”, “Rocky” etc. ie empowering movies that made me feel motivated- like I could achieve anything if I focused and worked hard.
But not to be careful what you wish for.
We're seldom shown what happens after the spoils of victory.
@@beingsshepherd so what you are saying is “don’t even try because it might go wrong”. I would rather try than spend my whole life thinking “what if”.
@@donna-mariebroomfield4584 Those protagonists had trifling worldly ambitions and achieved them by bringing down others.
Rat race propaganda dressed up as epic David vs Goliath battles.
Hollywood doesn't believe in America or Americans any more, so they are incapable of writing and producing empowering movies.
@@beingsshepherdoh gawed what unoriginal deconstructionist BS NPC comment about those classics.Karate Kid, wax on, wax off. GTFOH 😂
Even Maverick would have been an average movie in the 80s or 90s but was a huge success due to such a lack of other compelling stories. This happened even when they couldn’t even say who the enemy country was in the movie.
Nah Maverick would be good in any era. Few modern action movies have hit like that period.
@@IntergalacticDustBunny The whole time I watched Maverick, I couldn't help but think this is SW: A New Hope, but now that you started talking about his character, I also realized it's 90% of The Last Jedi as well, we watch an old washed up hero, who made some horrible mistakes in his past try to correct them, train the next generation and then go on one last adventure.
@@IntergalacticDustBunny "They got to do a Star Wars." -Ryan, Pitch Meeting
@@JanVernyI'd say _Maverick_ is _The Last Jedi_ done right. Disney-era _Star Wars_ was spiteful.
That's a pretty absurd statement. The first Top Gun, which most people agree was much weaker than Maverick, was the highest grossing film of 1986. Thus there is no reason to assume that Maverick would have been seen as average back then.
I started watching older films such as “Night of the Living Dead”, “Indiana Jones”, even Sam Raimi’s Spider-man trilogy.
I swear, the 90s to the late 2000s had the best films!
I watch Chinese historical shows now. Great storytelling per Joseph Campbell's heros journey, deep human nature and reflection, women who are strong yet engaging and feminine, lots of high values like loyalty, honor, eternal love, also clean without sex or nudity. The Legend of Fua Yao is amazing example. Seen by 2 billion people worldwide.
More than half of whom are of Chinese descent
I've watched a couple of those as well -- Qin Dynasty Epic and Three Kingdoms (2010) are amazingly well done.
@JadeOhara hello to a fellow fan. That was a truly wonderful series and so glad you mentioned it. Loved her perfect husband too. It was really cute. I find these dramas can really delve into human nature. The heights and the depths.
I enjoy a good wuxia or xinxia- the top ones are just as impactful as anytging western. . But at at least 40 episodes plus, I find it hard to commit to them. Also the dubbing, wooden acting and the child-like female leads with high squeaky voices put me off a bit.
I just want to enjoy a story. I don’t want an agenda or theme pushed on me. Let me just watch and enjoy a story.
And a well written one at that
Thank you.
What about originality. Movies these days are copied one after another. Imagine whites creating a movie where Martin Luther King is white? Everyone will be outraged then.
There's always an agenda. It's just how subtly you hide it.
The story does need substance though. Substance that, as he says, is not just about who oppresses whom. And I'm not sure the industry is able to deliver that.
This goes into why everything is being rebooted. They're simultaneously pulling in people who remember the originals and love them, and they'll make their money in that nostalgia, while simultaneously stripping out the spirit of the movie by "tweaking it".
That and they simply have no good original new ideas
So.. “milk the old cow”
Yes, you may be right about that. 😕
Exactly what Disney did with the new Star Wars trilogy. Bring in the original cast members to bring in the old fans, and then fill the movie with all kinds of modern trash for the younger crowd. They systematically killed off all of the originals to replace them. I'm sure the real life death of Carrie Fisher did nothing but help their plans.
Andrew is spot on! Movies is a business of emotions, but there is little emotional depth left in the world anymore, our movies reflect our spiritual drought. I don't ever see any celeb show gratitude to God in his oscar speech. There was a time the good guy was Benhur and his virtues were inspiring, but then he slowly became Scarface, there has been a gradual swift in ethics for the worst, for mankind and movies.
I don’t go to the movies anymore and I barely watch TV. My only regret is that I didn’t ditch hollyweird sooner
The film industry is now more interested in Box ticking than Box office !!
I reject your comment because it does not contain a deaf black lesbian in a wheelchair.
@@jamesmcinnis208 🤣 I will bear it in mind for next time !!
@@rayboishno vegan option either
You can see the ideology most clearly if you compare the old James Bond movies with the new James Bond movies.
You'll see it even more clearly when the old Bond books (which I'm presently chewing through) are rewritten by sensitivity readers and published for a "modern audience".
There are no "new James Bond movies". There are movies with James Bond in the title and some violent goof trying to convince us he's the character. The actual character was successfully assassinated decades ago. If you're watching one of the "new" movies now you're watching an animated rotting corpse.
Honestly, I know people don't agree . But I've always thought Timothy Dalton played the best bond. Sean Connery a d Roger Moore were maybe a bit more light hearted but Timothy Dalton was great.. but who knows..maybe his movies were some of the better ones in general, so that might be affecting my opinion.
I cannot watch the new Bond movies from start to finish without having to stop and take a break. I'm not a masochist. The movies are bait for people who care but it punishes you for caring.
Goldeneye to this day was my favorite Bond movie of all time.
Hollywood is catering to younger audineces and now we have Gen Z, the Christopher Columbus generation that just renames stuff that already exists as if they discovered it. They are going to make awful directors just plagiarizing what came before
Short, sweet and spot on. What a brilliant man. I thought I was the only one who cannot watch Hollywood c*ap for the past few years. I watch Euro movies instead or UA-cam. Truly enjoyed this interview.
I read a quote recently that I've been desperately trying to find again, but paraphrasing, it said something like; movies and TV shows used to have an illusion that you could believe in and escape in, but now the illusion has been broken because movies and TV chooses to "lecture" the viewer in what it thinks is right and wrong.
Most movies from totalitarian societies like Soviet Union were horrible to watch due to their “ preachy-ness”, we have now become then
Nowadays I entertain myself detecting the “woke preaching moments” in movies and TV series which occur at least once or twice every five minutes.
@@elcidcampeador7400 It's not at all "moments"; it's the entire fucking *premise* of virtually all shows and movies now. Everything from the story, the dialogue, the jokes, the actors chosen - literally every aspect is ruled by how woke they can go.
Moreover, movies and TV were there for entertainment, not for education.
Once, going to the movies or watching TV was escapism.
You worked hard all week, you had all these problems and worries.
But go to the movies or watch TV, and for two hours, you forget the world, and your biggest worry was would the hero defuse the bomb in time or rescue the girl before the train came.
Movies and TV made you laugh, put you on the edge of your seat. But most importantly, you could switch off and leave the world behind.
Movies and TV were fun. They weren't taken seriously. They made us feel something. They gave us hope.
But these days, every movie and TV show has to have *life lessons". We need to learn something. We have the world we are trying to escape thrust in our face now.
Movies lack fun. Many now also don't offer hope. They are dark, depressing.
I think the MCU did well because they were fun movies, with colour and humour. They didn't take things too seriously.
We don't want the world in our movies and TV. We want fun, humor, action, a roller coaster ride.
When it comes to marvel movies the older people criticize remember it's based off a children comic book 😅 yeah
All Trump was, he was symptom of a deeper issue; not the issue as many were telling people.
100% agree
Here in Australia we just had a sensational defamation trial finish. A spec ops soldier was exposed by news outlets as having executed Afghan civilians. He sued but lost, the judge finding that he probably did the things he's accused of. But what strikes me is how ex Prime Minister John Howard, who sent him there, gets off the hook. Same as Blair and Bush. They're war criminals and would be tried as such if they didn't do it at the behest of American empire. But Trump, who was anti-intervention, is somehow the worst president in US history? Even after January 6 there is still a real chance he gets elected again because people are tired of the evil rot.
Do you understand he is one of the daily wire and they are all in for DeSantis? That's not rational thinking about Trump! Lol 😂😂😂
@@biancaenera2500Yes, the softer side of elitism . He said average people are so demoralized and/or revenge driven they voted for the likes of DJT. Disgusting
@@chet9128 It's time for Caesar against the Pompey that is the "Elite". Murder Caesar, we will give you Octavian. Think they'll keep it from occurring and if you're lucky you'll get a Robespierre. Unlucky: Stalin or Hitler, and not just someone they screech about and call that, a real one. Sure, many are demoralized. I simply see it as the time for revenge so severe that show trials for "Elites" are generally acceptable.
What a great interview! Mr. Klavan is very clear and direct and he knows the movies and their history. We need more thinking people like him and you guys.
The “powerful businesswoman decides to quit doing that and have a man take care of her while she starts a family” movie is made a dozen times every year by Hallmark.
Hallmark - not Hollywood
What a breath of fresh air to watch this sensible lucid conversation. The sooner wokeness is crushed to a pulp and completely obliterated the better. Hollywood has become a basket case, a complete disaster.
Hoorah! Touche! You hit the target in your comment!
I hope you're right, but I think it will get worse. Woke is the new Notsee flag. Fly it outside your house or else.
@@tryingbutfailingIt's incumbent to redpill the intelligent/open minded people in your life. I've helped several people open their eyes to what wokeness is really about and now they see it for what it is.
Absolutely. That was my feeling as well. Literally a sigh of relief hearing people speak coherently and intelligently and seeing the relationship between these topics.
@@joseph6243Can you define wokeness for me please?
Art without aesthetics is merely politics. Disney's art is to tell a good story. Budweiser's art is to make a good beer. Target's art is to make a deal. They are all utter failures.
Budweiser's beer production hasn't changed
I wouldn't call anything those 3 corporations are engaged in "art." It's business, pure and simple. Their "business" is slinging mass-produced entertainment, metallic swill beer, and cheap chinese goods respectively. And they can't even do that because they are too busy evangelizing on behalf of identity politics to turn a profit.
@@beenright5115 yea it's still awful warm piss.. I wouldn't call it beer 😂
@@beenright5115 but their sales are way down🤣😆😂😅
@@jamesbrice6619I had to laugh silently to myself as I watched their latest beer commercial trying to Rebrand themselves.
Oh no no no forget that whole trans thing. You never saw that😂.
The Jesus Revolution was a breathe of fresh air. It completely bucked the current trend in Hollywood and was well received by movie goers regardless of worldveiw. It was simple but deep.
It's a good film, but it still followed a lot of the standard cliche Hollywood story and character tropes.
Very good conversation and spot on conclusions. Thank you for saying it out loud ❤🎉🙏🏼
"All these people in the media said, 'no no no you must be afraid!'"
Yes. Their ability to direct the fears of their audience has been the conscious source of the media's power for decades now.
Here's something else to consider -- young people have no sense of history, whether practical history of the world, or of their own country, or in movies, the young constantly suffer from a depths of only 3-5yrs. Pretty sad!
I'd agree but change yrs to months...
@@aaronfagerstrom34 change months to tik-toks
@@badunius_code hahaha. Is it really that bad?
It’s crazy that there are young people who seem to believe that society didn’t exist before they were born. It’s as if some of them haven’t even seen movies nor listened to music prior to 2000.
@@aaronfagerstrom34 obviously I do not possess the hard data to back it up, but that is the vibe I get from my own observations of the current generation.
There are people who remember and still refer to memes from a decade ago, but is there a person who still remembers previous tik-tok trend?
The trajectory of film has gone from inspirational to re-educational. In the 30s, heroes / protagonists weren't direct representations of their audience; they were ideals to be aspired to, or to express a desirable human trait - usually at their own detriment. And they weren't real people - they were idealizations of the writers. Nowadays, all characters have to represent the social group they are portraying, right down to the ethnicity of the actor portraying the character - be they real or fictional. There is no symbolism, nothing aspirational, and nothing enjoyable in film. It has become an extension of the oppression Olympics, the stuff of everyday American culture. Children and adults alive today have been deprived of their heroes, replaced by superheroes which can NEVER be aspired to, thus making their enjoyment a mental thing, but not heartwarming (except in exceptional cases - which are rare to be sure). The stories of humanity overcoming diversity ( at any level) are gone, or if they are portrayed, are usually bashed for portraying white supremacy, not enough social justice, too much masculinity, or not enough farce. We live in desperate times, but truth is eternal, so the essence of good film and story writing will always be there - and will always come back. It is just that today, the powers in charge are only interested in re-educating people to communist doctrine - even Disney - so American culture has to take back the centers of film and television before media can return to it's rightful place in society,
Sometimes I feel I don't want to live in this era anymore
Thank YOU, Mr. Klavan. You pretty much said it all in this interview. The one beneficial thing about all these woke films is that it gives me more time to READ books.
I just watch old TV series and old movies. I rarely watch a movie that came out after the 90s
The last 2 movies I saw and enjoyed were
' 1917 ' and Dunkirk. OK, no women, but I also loved ' Thelma and Louise ", and ' Alien ', starring women. Just give us entertaining movies, well written, directed and acted.
Exactly. My husband and I recently watched The Hunt for Red October and because of modern society I noticed there were pretty much no women and guess what? I didn't care lol! It was honestly refreshing seeing a bunch of men just being men.
WHY exactly were there no trans women of color starring in those movies??? This is an outrage, and they can't keep getting away with it!
We need more storytelling.
My top 10 movies 🎬
1- Terminator 2
2- Predator
3- Backdraft
4- Point Break
5- Born On The 4th Of July
6- Road House
7- Jurassic Park
8- Silence Of The Lambs
9- Lord Of The Rings
10- Zodiac
1930s to 2000s were great years for movies.
Wonderful discussion!What I really miss in modern films is romance and love, softness and tenderness. The sex depicted in the most popular US series from the past 15 years disgusts me; It's always ugly, violent and unloving.
I fully agree, this is why I only watch old movies from the 1930s to 50s with some 80s too, not only were the films all clean but they used to value romance and love and knew how important it was, the most important bond that is the beginning of all other bonds, this is why 90% of 1920-50s movies have romance in them no matter what genre and I love it. Far better romances than will ever come out today, and the kiss scenes in old movies are more romantic and passionate than any of these disgusting scenes today.
@LostInOldMovies even if old movies covered a topic like adultery, such as Intermezzo, they always showed it to be bad and a huge mistake at the end. It also expressed forgiveness and Repentance
Did you notice that modern movies don't know how to write love? It is just something that it happened and if they put something is shallow or extremely toxic.
@@elenabob4953 very rarely do you see anything in modern movies expressing true love, honor, nobility, sacrifice, selflessness, etc...
@@LostInOldMovies Films under the Hays Code were "clean" only insofar as they didn't explicitly show or reference sex or nudity. There was plenty of innuendo and inplied sexuality.
Modern movies suck, because they all come with a Left wing lecture. They are also completely devoid of new and creative ideas.
You know why modern movies suck ? Cause this man here and men like him are EX Hollywood writers. He probably has more interesting bedtime stories for his kids than a whole crew of today's screenwriters can come up with for a blockbuster.
we live in the rise and power of the "mediocre"... and they hate true talent or hard work.. so they protect each other, hire each other and keep the doors closed to those that could prove them to be talentless hacks that they are... we once lived in the world of merit, sadly no more
Ayn Rand said that the way to bring people down was not to go after merit, but to elevate mediocrity.
Exactly
There never was a world of merit.
@@thomasfairfax4956 That's utter baloney. Tell yourself that the next time you ride in an airplane, or are about the go under anesthesia for an operation.
@@ianboard544 .. re read my comment... "in the rise"... I did not say in total.... and yes, some areas are advancing.. but in many, they are regressing...creativity, media, arts, university, government etc etc... so only partly baloney... anyway, u know what I mean, u seem smart enough
Really, normal people must stop supporting woke tv shows, movies, Disney etc. I watch many of the thousands of fantastic movies made between 1935 and 1960. There are also some classics in 1960 to 1970.
Don't limit yourself. There's plenty of wonderful movies made prior to 1935 including silents.
I don’t see why not either. Bud light being a prime example of what can happen when consumers take action or a lack of action.
With today's technology, they not only know how many people watch, they know when they tuned out.
"Hey look - we lost 24% of our viewers twenty-two minutes into the show. What was happening then?"
@@dumbunny7986 If you can handle the subtitles, try "M" starring Peter Lorre.
"The Kid" with Charlie Chaplin is a good introduction to silent.
@@CornerTalker Thank you. I've seen M with Peter Lorre. Much superior to the American version. Tho famously funny many of Chaplin's pictures had a touch of pathos and The Kid had that in spades.
I watch contemporary movies for CGI eye candy, but when I want art, I return to classic Hollywood. New movies can engage my visual sense, but only classics can move me emotionally, intellectually and aesthetically.
Under rated comment 🎉 couldn't agree more , same !!
Years ago, most films tried hard- they gave us so much. Most of today's movies give us almost Nothing yet ask us to sit through trash and keep coming back
Years ago I began noticing how many tv shows ( in particular) featured protagonists - the character we invest in and root for - who are literally bad guys. Vigilantes and outright criminals. I’d ask my students about tv characters they liked and ask “would you want this person as a neighbor? Would you want your future kids around him or her? If they asked for a loan, would you feel you could date no?” I’d get a conversation going about why so often we valorize characters in our entertainment who are literally anti-social! This is an interesting take on that question.
nah, its actually a fucking stupid question .
For some reason we seemm to favour sociopathic traits, probably mistaking them for leadership?
With "deconstruction" I've also noticed that our collective notion of heroism and leadership are being eroded. You have to get back to books and films that are sometimes over 70 years of age to find a healthy role model in that sense.
@@isakaldazwulfazizsunus7564 Nah fam, I don't look to fiction for Role models 😂 it's just entertainment. Most "Positive role models are boring as fuck.
The lack of clear cut protaganists in movies is a microcosm of all of society.
A wicket perverse and corrupt society doesn't produce heroes and protaganists nor does it portray right and wrong on screen nor does it want the good guy to win.
A stupid society as America doesn't like heroes; it likes villains more; it now has no concept of right and wrong.
A very stupid country that seems to be well past the point of no return.
One of many things I miss about 'older movies' are clear cut protaganists who put villains in their proper place and always come out on top in the end.
Seeing bad guys get their comeuppance, etc.
Also portraying men in men's roles and women and women's roles and there's never any confusion between the two roles: They are as opposite as night and day.
An ugly stupid felonious trailer trash manly quasi-transgender female covered in tattoos with an uber-unlikeable personality beating up men is reprehensibly-pathetic and a trillion percent the opposite of a 'MODESTLY-CLAD' morally clean and very effeminate and intelligent Shirley Temple or Grace Kelly who doesn't use profanity and is truly attractive and has great civilized mannerisms.
Aren't these many proofs that America is a stupid worthless degraded 3rd world country?
Examples? In particular of series your students would be likely to see.
I'm so tired of every movie being a superhero movie or comic book movie. I want to see movies about normal people with good writing and no special effects.
YES!
Yes ... nornal regular average people not about some guy who was amazingly succesfull or invented some crap or something like that. Just normal people who can relate to you or your life.
Road to perdition, Oldboy , A history of violence, the death of Stalin are all comic book movies comics aren’t just about superheroes
There are plenty especially in France and Belgium with a lot more down to earth stories
If a character starts at the top then they have nothing to learn & no lesson to teach the audience so the movie becomes pointless.
I agree with him.
I worked in LA at a very important channel and at first I wanted to stay, but then I saw everything that Hollywood is and I was so disappointed about it. It is an awful industry. Everything is a lie. It keeps going in a huge decline!!
When I want to watch a movie, it's to escape the daily grind, escape politics, take a break from reality. I don't watch movies anymore. I watch critics and commentators takes on the garbage currently in the theatres instead.
There are also great movies which are not meant to be an escape. As long as they dont try to push an agenda on you, as long as they leave space for thinking, they can be great aswell
Triggernometry is a blog for the thinker, ... for the one who reflects, ponders,... for someone who lives at the intersection of politics, culture & natural law. Thank you for bringing Klavan to your podcast!
"Reflect upon the Past.
Embrace your Present.
Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis
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"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
--Diamond Dragons (series)
Talking to colleagues in their 20s they say all movies these days are rubbish! It just goes to show it's not just the older generation.
SCHINDLER'S LIST is one of the BEST films ever made. One that should be watched.
"Nothing really compels me like it used to."
Francis stated what I've been feeling for years now. The last movie I was excited about was the first Jurassic World movie and that sucked.
The last time I felt excited about going to see a movie in a theater was when the first Resident Evil movie came out. It was a huge disappointment. That's when I realized the great era of the 60's, 70's and 80's movies was over.
I've never really liked Andrew all too much, maybe it's his cadence, his tone or overall presentation that hasn't quite intrigued me..
But I can't deny that he is a very intelligent human being, and his analysis is spot on.
When i was a teenager in the late 90s early 2000s often times when me and my friends would get bored we would randomly decide to go see a movie and we wouldn't even bother looking to see what movies were playing because we knew that one of the eight screens would be playing at least one movie we'd want to see, many there would be multiple good movies playing and we'd make a decision on which one to watch. And it was extremely rare that would leave a movie disappointed. I wouldn't dream of doing that today with the crap Hollywood has been putting out recently.
What are some crap movies ? & how can the film industry improve ?
He’s a bright man…and that’s different than being right. And the goal has never been to be right…it’s been to think and to express one’s thoughts respectfully and to list others’ ideas. I can’t imagine someone would have a problem with these three. Not once did they tell people what to think, nor did they harass their audience for seeing the world as they do. The other side (not represented here) are bullies…bullying others because they don’t see things their way. So, their methods suck and yet their methods are separate from the topics they speak on which may indeed have merit. It is some pretty sick nonsense to for anyone to believe that their opinion or point of view should become someone else’s point of you - that’s a dictator in the literal sense of that word…’to follow someone’s word (speech).
what's he talking about? stars have no power today, Cruise is the last movie star that draws an audience. He put too much emphasis on religion, Japan is not religious, their anime is art. the problem with hollywood is there's too many agenda driven movies, too many remakes, there's little room for risky projects
It’s not necessarily about religious or not religious, it’s about worldview. In anime their worldview is not naturalistic or materialistic, it has a spiritual underpinning due to their core beliefs. Miyazakis movies don’t need to be religious but you can’t deny they’re deeply spiritual.
Blessings to Mr. Andrew Klavan for his wisdom and speaking the truth. All one has to do is stop and take a long look to see where this world is headed and at full speed. God bless you. 🙏❤️
The main reason why people don't go to films anymore is the actors in films nowadays don't like people. For that business, one needs affinity.
I loved his take on art, art life cycles historically, and on Wokeism. We come from two very different places when it comes to how to live, though. I think people who have always been historically more physically vulnerable have relied on those who were not. They relied on the physically healthier individuals to behave responsibly and heroically like the old heroes did. In a story archetype, their role was to defend the other aspects of life worth fighting for, like freedom, integrity, honor, etc. People like me (medically fragile) existed to provide the archetype as to why survival, life itself, and the act of living should not be taken for granted. The two ideas worked in a mutually beneficial way. Now everyone is out for themselves-- it's not about preserving the idea of the value of an individual human's life-- it's about feeding or preserving one's individual sense of self and importance.
This looks like a great interview and I'm going to watch the whole segment.
To pick two relatable examples, both the Star Trek TNG episode "Brothers" and the Twilight Zone episode "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" discuss why people need to create things of transcendent value regardless of their own life spam. This notion is completely gone now.
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 I am not familiar with either episode so I will have to check them out. Thank you for the recommedations!
@@Sidera17 Actually, aside from the subject, the Star Trek episode is not that good lol. Twilight Zone (1959-1964) however I would recommend to anyone who likes great storytelling.
@@dr.juerdotitsgo5119 I ended up just finishing the episode. Yes, it's exactly the idea I was trying to lay out about the characters and archetype roles! Thank you for this, I'm going to refer to it in the future.
Sounds like the frail old mentor figures in: Star Wars, Karate Kid, Dungeons and Dragons, Rocky, TMNT ...
Absolutely true. The same with modern music. It was good till around 2000. I haven't seen a new release movie in years.
Same with modern video games to, the last golden age was the 2000s. Literally every entertainment medium has declined rapidly since 2010.
IDK, I still keep discovering great new music :-)
That LAST bit is so important, "everything is a catastrophe, give us more power" humans and their tinny heads can't deal with power, they get lost
You all blame writers and attack the wokism, but you don’t consider why it’s bad. Millenials aren’t paid enough to sustain a life where they don’t have to overwork to barely survive. They don’t get the chance to meet new people, travel around as much as previous gens did, resulting in a lack of perspective. I bet probably the best paid writers don’t want to be in the industry so they just take off to do something else, because the hustle isn’t worth it.
Secondly, movie industry made great films because it hasn’t been done before. Whatever you did was an original idea, or the story line was original to keep the audience engaged. It is much harder to find a story that is not untold.
Finally, world has changed. When I watch old movies, and I don’t want to trash them because most of them are great actually, they have badly aged jokes. I can’t stand an early Bond movie for example because he treats women like disposible items at hand, moreover r*ping a girl in one of the movies. Call me woke I don’t care but sexist jokes aren’t funny anymore, it’s unsettling to watch.
It would be interesting to see the aftermath of achieving something. Yeah the main character had their goal, what about their life after that achievement? It would be nice to see what happens to an avenger to quit and go back to their old boring lifestyle.
There is a film called - 'In Her Shoes' which came out in 2005 not that long ago but also before the woke storm in which a successful lawyer leaves her job to become a dog walker, re-bonds with her sister and ends up meeting the love her life and gets married in the end, sorry for spoilers!! It has Toni Collette and Cameron Diaz in it and it's one of my favourite films.
Added to my list to view with my family. Thanks.
Just watched it again on Hulu a couple of months ago. Love it!
You're right - In Her Shoes was a great movie.
another revealing thing to do is to watch "old" movies or just those made 10-15 years before and noticing everything that wouldn't be allowed now, not by usual censors (level of sex or violence used to determine the age of viewing), but by woke producers because now they would be labelled "offensive" or they would just say "this storyline / this character doing this is not sending the good message (because of their color, gender, sexual orientation)".etc. and we must also add the different but even more extreme censorship made by China, country that these same producers hypocritically bow to.
The problem with the Marvel movies is that they're not being made correctly. They're straying too far from the source material and the essence of the characterization and narratives are being lost in favor of woke ideology, and and they're not following the structure of the comics, which is based on classic literature and 20th century science fiction writing.
Great work guys, a really inspiring interview.
Being Woke is being aware of the Spirit and being aware of those who try to manipulate us all. It's beyond sad that this term has been hijacked to mean something completely different. 😢
I call that being Awake. Let them have all the terms they've destroyed.
@@HeyMykee it might not be the best idea to enjoy the fact that definitions of words are being eroded. 🤷🏽♀️
@@B-Nice Oh I definitely care about the definitions of words. But honestly I never heard the term woke being used like that until the left started using it. It was always just a verb-"He woke with a taste in his mouth like stale cigarettes and rancid beer." Let them have their version of it. We need to choose our fights, and I think definitions of words like woman and man are far more important.
@@HeyMykee "What good do your words do, if they can't understand you" - E. Badu
@@B-Nice Yeah, just give up if you want to, whatever. I'll stay in the fight. But stop pestering me with your ridiculus nonsense.
This is brilliant. Feel like this whole mess is coming into focus as time goes on.
“There are more important things than dying “…so awesome !
Everyone dies. It's how we live that matters.
Writers today never played outside as children; they grew up indoors with their faces planted in a screen--literally, their babysitters were MACHINES!
Very much like a Robert A Heinlein story/book.
I think he missed a point in that movies and TV were often about being a good person or a good "American", as a collective, based in spirituality or a belief in a purpose higher than yourself. Wokeness is also very selfish and narcissistic so movies today, I find are mostly look at me, feel for me or I am the only one who can "save" the world. That's why we have representation instead of storytelling.
11:37 I had that exact take. This is the 1st time I have ever heard anyone else describe that moment for the truth of it and how the media took the opportunity to set America back. Thanks for drawing attention to it and framing it so well.
Thank you very much for this video. This gentleman was concise, new his history of films and is able to verbally state what I knew in my heart to be true, without knowing how to articulate such common sense.
That's an interview worth watching. Good job.
I’ve been building up a large library of old DVDs of 1980s - 2010 movies.
2 reasons really:
More and more streamers charge for anything decent so it makes good sense to buy them for a pound or 2 on EBay or in charity shops.
Also if they start censoring them by no longer makng them available or cutting scenes I will have access.
I was just thinking about doing that.
brillant. and ya can feel the effect of soulnessness in a lot of new movies and wokeness
“Whatever happened to Gary Cooper? Y’know, the strong silent type…”
I love "Moonlight" AND "Gone with the wind" for different reasons
When the Oscars give you a menu of what needs to be in your movie before you’ll be considered for an award, no wonder that everything that comes out of the kitchen tastes bland
The same is true in Bollywood. They are just making absolute woke crap.
True. Hindi films are just copy paste today. No original scripts anymore.
NO... Really? Even in India???
It’s happening in Bollywood too? No more wet sarees then I’m guessing? Hahaa!
Their culture is under attack just like ours.
So can we blame athiesm there too?
He's nice to listen to. Good at telling his story.
There are AMAZING movies being made. I watched The Banshees of Insherin (Irish) and it was stunning. It's a simple story of two friends that a rift happens between them and that's the story. Sputnik (Russia) horror film. Sort of an homage to the Aliens franchise but so well done. They are out there but Hollywood? Not so much.
When I was a child I went to the movie on either a Wednesday or Saturday matinee. And even as a young adult I went regularly. Now in my old age I never find any film I really like, so I am reassured that it may be the film making rather than just my taste that has changed.
"Reflect upon the Past.
Embrace your Present.
Orchestrate our Futures." --Artemis
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
"Before I start, I must see my end.
Destination known, my mind’s journey now begins.
Upon my chariot, heart and soul’s fate revealed.
In time, all points converge, hope’s strength re-steeled.
But to earn final peace at the universe’s endless refrain,
We must see all in nothingness... before we start again."
🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨
--Diamond Dragons (series)
In the 1930s, 27% of the top 100 grossing films were nominated best picture.
In the 1940s, 18% of the top 100 grossing films were nominated best picture.
In the 1950s, 30% of the top 100 grossing films were nominated best picture.
In the 1960s, 25% of the top 100 grossing films were nominated best picture.
In the 1970s, 27% of the top 100 grossing films were nominated best picture.
In the 1980s, 16% of the top 100 grossing films were nominated best picture.
In the 1990s, 18% of the top 100 grossing films were nominated best picture.
In the 2000s, 4% of the top 100 grossing films were nominated best picture.
Everything lately is not an original, it's a remake with a woke theme. No one wants to see that crap.
30% of 100 is thirty.
I may have been misreading your data as “each year of [said decade]” which is a lot of nominations for a year, but if that is nominations over the whole decade then that averages to three per year which seems more manageable, however when we get down to only 4 movies in a decade that is just one ever 2-3 years which is dismal. Supposing my final interpretation of your stats was correct that is.
I'm not quite sure what point is trying to be made here. Back in the day, the Acadamy was more likely to nominate popular films, not because they were "the best" but because they were popular. Just look at the nominations and winners in the 50's/60s. The 2000's has more to do with what type of movies were box office successes. Action, Children's and Comic Book movies. I don't think anyone was clamoring for any of the Transformer movies to be nominated, or Alvin and the Chipmunks: the Squeakuel.
@@patrickmalarkey2292 Ask yourself: What did people pay to see?
In the 1950s, each of these movies were # 1 in sales for their release year: Rear Window, The Ten Commandments, The Bridge on the River Kwai, South Pacific, Ben-Hur.
1960s saw #1 grossing films like Spartacus, West Side Story, Lawrence of Arabia, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, The Graduate, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This is what the audience wanted.
In the 1970s it was Love Story, Fiddler on the Roof, The Godfather, The Sting, Blazing Saddles, Jaws, Rocky, Star Wars, Grease, and Kramer vs. Kramer.
These were each critical successes as well as big sales.
The first decade of the 2000s produced great films as well: The Hurt Locker, Master and Commander, Million Dollar Baby, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Lost In Translation, Pursuit of Happyness, A Beautiful Mind, and Juno - but NOT ONE of these films appeared even on the top 100 in sales. They were outperformed at the box office by Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Transformers, Star Wars - Attack of the Clones, Planet of the Apes, Mission Impossible 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and The Matrix Reloaded. People paid for crap.
@@CornerTalker I'm with you on that. But it also a change in demographic. It used to be that the majority of film-watchers were adults, or adults taking their families. Over the last 20 years or so it's shifted to more of a 16-25. Everyone still goes, but that demographic has more disposable income and has a larger effect on the box office. I don't exactly expect the 16-25 crowd to have the most discernable taste.
The bigger problem is that the "smaller" films get pushed out of the theaters so quickly, that if you don't see it in the first two weeks (if it even makes it to your area), you risk not being able to see it in theaters.
The 80's and 90's were the best years for movies for me. There was actual genuine and deserved excitement about new releases. Going to the theater was an experience. That has been completely destroyed by virtue signaling.
Hollywood hasn't produced anything worth watching for over 15 years. They can't even make an average mediocre movie. Zero entertainment. It's all lectures from the least moral people on earth.
I refuse to pay to be told I'm a bad person by people who have cocaine for breakfast and mutilate their own children to help their careers.
I just discovered Klavan wrote the screenplay for A Shock to the System, starring Michael Caine. I saw that movie maybe 2 decades ago and loved it, but never in a million years would I have guessed it was written by Klavan.
Has he not seen any Hallmark movies? Especially, the Christmas movies? They are all about lonely, single women in demanding corporate jobs who go home to their little towns for Christmas, fall in love with some guy from the town, & quit their jobs so they can marry the guy & start a family in the little town. I've watched a tonne of those types of movies.
Hallmark?!