Barry Diller has run two studios, Paramount and Fox, and believes (correctly) that the Oscars and the movie business are both dead.
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It would be too painful to learn that taxpayers pay to manufacture all of those Oscars.
Please do not tell me if you know tax dollars pay to make all of those statuettes, plaques, and whatnots show folk give each other every year. I read somewhere that there are 400 different entertainment awards shows annually. That is more than one award a day. Hell, manufacturing all of those prizes handed out every year is bigger than U.S. Steel.
It is the culture of tax dollar artists that is most depressing.
Faced with proposed cuts to federal arts funding nationwide, some of Hollywood's biggest stars are adopting novel strategies for lobbying on behalf of the arts. “It’s not enough anymore, in this economy, for actors to just argue why arts funding benefits people,” actress Patricia Arquette said. “I came here to talk to Republicans about how the arts drive huge sectors of this country’s economy." Arquette is one of a handful of actors lobbying policymakers ahead of Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, and her trip is part of a joint outreach by The Creative Coalition, one of the entertainment industry’s premiere advocacy groups.
In tough economy, Hollywood stars make novel arguments for arts funding
By Christina Wilkie
04/29/11 06:19 AM ET
It never occurs to tax dollar artists they should find another line of work to support themselves when they cannot sell enough tickets to pay for their particular schtick. Ticket sales is unimportant to government artists. Peer approval is all that matters. Peer approval is everything to actors because they all know they will be paid whether or not the public buys the product.
There are a few ——very few —— movies that qualify as pure entertainment. Limousine liberal messages inundate movies. Simply put: Not enough creative people ever worked in the movie industry who could provide the pure entertainment merchandise needed to keep movie theaters open seven days a week. Keeping movie theaters open is the main reason so much Democrat Party garbage is produced every year. Crapola and propaganda of one kind or another is the stuff that replaced entertainment.
After lonesome movie theatergoers no longer want mainstream movies —— listening to sound in motion pictures with sound will fade into history.
Parenthetically, silent films were never silent. Even in the silent film era, musicians were hired to accompany the film being shown; in most cases they played a piano or an organ. Many of the larger theaters hired a small orchestra. Just think of the cost involved when one or more musicians played at every showing in every movie house in the country. The more astute studio heads, along with the owners of the large theater chains, wanted sound added to motion pictures so they could eliminate the staggering cost of those musicians. Had sound never been added to film, the novelty of viewing moving pictures would have worn thin decades ago.
One of the most believed lies of the last century is the one that says adding a sound track to film almost destroyed Hollywood. Hollywood itself promoted that falsehood for obvious reasons. Studio moguls always knew that without sound of some kind motion pictures would soon become as boring as looking at someone else’s family photo album. The fictional character of faded silent screen star Norma Desmond in the movie Sunset Boulevard was dead wrong when she said: "We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!"
You might try visualizing sitting in a large theater with hundreds of strangers watching a film that is absolutely silent. The audience would go bonkers in a matter of minutes without sound to control them. It is the soundtrack that keeps the audience in their seats just as the musicians accomplished that same control in the silent film era. And since the audience is sitting there listening they watch the moving pictures.
Music is an important part of a soundtrack. The screen is never quiet, even when the characters in a movie are not delivering dialogue. Silence is the cardinal sin to movie makers.
The soundtrack not only saved Hollywood it gave us Socialist/Communist propaganda supported by pictures. Political propaganda was inevitable when words replaced music as the primary audience-controlling factor in a theater. The black & white social dramas made by Hollywood soon after sound was added to motion pictures are the foundation for sound and image propaganda. Television effectively built upon that prototype. No picture ever converted anyone to anything, while the spoken word has done just that on many occasions. Pictures beguile —— sound persuades.
“Sight is the first law of sales” only comes into play when you are selling a product. Even then, ‘product sight’ is often supported by the words of a salesperson as in the case of automobiles, real estate, etc. When you are trying to sell hot air, electronic vocal chords accompanied by a torrent of words is the tool to use. If you doubt it, try to visualize being brainwashed into accepting Socialism/Communism by pictures alone. It is simply not possible. By combining sound and images, and then having them seen and heard in a relaxed home atmosphere, rather than in an impersonal theater, has been a boon to Communism/Socialism and devastating to individuality.
I will bet you that Hollywood’s spokespersons never mention that bit of truth when they pass the collection basket to a Congressional Committee about their artistic contributions to civilized society.
Do not look for the media, print or electronic, to criticize Hollywood. Just look at the amount of subsidies Hollywood gets from congressional Democrats to promote the movie industry’s latest product.
Tax deductible advertising dollars paid to Madison Avenue, newspapers and TV stations would be foolish to jeopardize that income. Hollywood gets it from the government —— the media gets it from Hollywood —— and everybody cutting a fat hog in the ass smile all the way to bank. That is everybody except a majority of Americans who can do without Hollywood’s product.
To sum up my commentary in 12 words —— no amount of government money can breathe life into Diller’s dead industry.
Nolte: Barry Diller Says the Oscars and Movie Business are Dead
Barry Diller has run two studios, Paramount and Fox, and believes (correctly) that the Oscars and the movie business are both dead. | Entertainment Barry Diller has run two studios, Paramount and Fox, and believes (correctly) that the Oscars and the movie business are dead.
www.breitbart.com
It would be too painful to learn that taxpayers pay to manufacture all of those Oscars.
Please do not tell me if you know tax dollars pay to make all of those statuettes, plaques, and whatnots show folk give each other every year. I read somewhere that there are 400 different entertainment awards shows annually. That is more than one award a day. Hell, manufacturing all of those prizes handed out every year is bigger than U.S. Steel.
It is the culture of tax dollar artists that is most depressing.
Faced with proposed cuts to federal arts funding nationwide, some of Hollywood's biggest stars are adopting novel strategies for lobbying on behalf of the arts. “It’s not enough anymore, in this economy, for actors to just argue why arts funding benefits people,” actress Patricia Arquette said. “I came here to talk to Republicans about how the arts drive huge sectors of this country’s economy." Arquette is one of a handful of actors lobbying policymakers ahead of Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, and her trip is part of a joint outreach by The Creative Coalition, one of the entertainment industry’s premiere advocacy groups.
In tough economy, Hollywood stars make novel arguments for arts funding
By Christina Wilkie
04/29/11 06:19 AM ET
It never occurs to tax dollar artists they should find another line of work to support themselves when they cannot sell enough tickets to pay for their particular schtick. Ticket sales is unimportant to government artists. Peer approval is all that matters. Peer approval is everything to actors because they all know they will be paid whether or not the public buys the product.
There are a few ——very few —— movies that qualify as pure entertainment. Limousine liberal messages inundate movies. Simply put: Not enough creative people ever worked in the movie industry who could provide the pure entertainment merchandise needed to keep movie theaters open seven days a week. Keeping movie theaters open is the main reason so much Democrat Party garbage is produced every year. Crapola and propaganda of one kind or another is the stuff that replaced entertainment.
After lonesome movie theatergoers no longer want mainstream movies —— listening to sound in motion pictures with sound will fade into history.
Parenthetically, silent films were never silent. Even in the silent film era, musicians were hired to accompany the film being shown; in most cases they played a piano or an organ. Many of the larger theaters hired a small orchestra. Just think of the cost involved when one or more musicians played at every showing in every movie house in the country. The more astute studio heads, along with the owners of the large theater chains, wanted sound added to motion pictures so they could eliminate the staggering cost of those musicians. Had sound never been added to film, the novelty of viewing moving pictures would have worn thin decades ago.
One of the most believed lies of the last century is the one that says adding a sound track to film almost destroyed Hollywood. Hollywood itself promoted that falsehood for obvious reasons. Studio moguls always knew that without sound of some kind motion pictures would soon become as boring as looking at someone else’s family photo album. The fictional character of faded silent screen star Norma Desmond in the movie Sunset Boulevard was dead wrong when she said: "We didn't need dialogue. We had faces!"
You might try visualizing sitting in a large theater with hundreds of strangers watching a film that is absolutely silent. The audience would go bonkers in a matter of minutes without sound to control them. It is the soundtrack that keeps the audience in their seats just as the musicians accomplished that same control in the silent film era. And since the audience is sitting there listening they watch the moving pictures.
Music is an important part of a soundtrack. The screen is never quiet, even when the characters in a movie are not delivering dialogue. Silence is the cardinal sin to movie makers.
The soundtrack not only saved Hollywood it gave us Socialist/Communist propaganda supported by pictures. Political propaganda was inevitable when words replaced music as the primary audience-controlling factor in a theater. The black & white social dramas made by Hollywood soon after sound was added to motion pictures are the foundation for sound and image propaganda. Television effectively built upon that prototype. No picture ever converted anyone to anything, while the spoken word has done just that on many occasions. Pictures beguile —— sound persuades.
“Sight is the first law of sales” only comes into play when you are selling a product. Even then, ‘product sight’ is often supported by the words of a salesperson as in the case of automobiles, real estate, etc. When you are trying to sell hot air, electronic vocal chords accompanied by a torrent of words is the tool to use. If you doubt it, try to visualize being brainwashed into accepting Socialism/Communism by pictures alone. It is simply not possible. By combining sound and images, and then having them seen and heard in a relaxed home atmosphere, rather than in an impersonal theater, has been a boon to Communism/Socialism and devastating to individuality.
I will bet you that Hollywood’s spokespersons never mention that bit of truth when they pass the collection basket to a Congressional Committee about their artistic contributions to civilized society.
Do not look for the media, print or electronic, to criticize Hollywood. Just look at the amount of subsidies Hollywood gets from congressional Democrats to promote the movie industry’s latest product.
Tax deductible advertising dollars paid to Madison Avenue, newspapers and TV stations would be foolish to jeopardize that income. Hollywood gets it from the government —— the media gets it from Hollywood —— and everybody cutting a fat hog in the ass smile all the way to bank. That is everybody except a majority of Americans who can do without Hollywood’s product.
To sum up my commentary in 12 words —— no amount of government money can breathe life into Diller’s dead industry.
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