Oct 15, 2024 02:27 AM
(This post was last modified: Oct 15, 2024 02:43 AM by C C.)
ECHO CHAMBERLAIN: "Why entertainment is failing"
https://youtu.be/pn5n1abri3k
VIDEO EXCERPT: With too many entertainment products these days, it feels like the showrunner is the real protagonist, instead of the main character. Too often, showrunners will treat a name brand property like a customizable template.
They perform self inserts and indulge in identity preoccupation, making it about themselves. In channeling their history, trauma, and identity -- they are coming from a place of authenticity, which must therefore be compelling [in order to succeed].
When taking your inner creative drives, and then setting aside your own world views, shedding your morbidities, and shaping that raw material into something for everyone -- you are being generous. But writing for an audience of you, and the rest of the writing room, and leaning into those world views and morbidities -- is selfish, and lame.
Take Leslye Headland, who was raised in a strictly religious context. In her $230 million show [The Acolyte], there is a clear sense of her deconstructing strict religious sects and religious observance.
She's a lesbian, therefore the content will be heavy with sapphic themes, lesbian, and gay characters. She has unresolved cross-purposes with her sister -- therefore, that gets explored.
There's nothing wrong with personal stuff as a galvanizing force of creativity. The issue was with proportionality, self-indulgence. Whether a showrunner is playing their issues out without discretion or sufficient filters on the page and the screen. And whether the audience has been given appropriate enough consideration.
And the fact you didn't will a wholly new story world into existence, but just made whatever use you wanted of a brand with a built-in appeal.
The problem with trying to inject [political] messaging into entertainment, is that in entertainment -- first and foremost -- the medium is the message. If the entertainment is lackluster, people won't be receptive to you or your worldview. And if the audience doesn't show up, because you put the cart before the horse, then don't be petulant and blame the audience. It's not their fault.
If you're trying to be socially progressive, but your creativity is stale -- relying on the past to develop a progressive present -- then there's a disconnect there that people can sense and instinctively aren't interested in...
Narcissists are making content for no one
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pn5n1abri3k
https://youtu.be/pn5n1abri3k
VIDEO EXCERPT: With too many entertainment products these days, it feels like the showrunner is the real protagonist, instead of the main character. Too often, showrunners will treat a name brand property like a customizable template.
They perform self inserts and indulge in identity preoccupation, making it about themselves. In channeling their history, trauma, and identity -- they are coming from a place of authenticity, which must therefore be compelling [in order to succeed].
When taking your inner creative drives, and then setting aside your own world views, shedding your morbidities, and shaping that raw material into something for everyone -- you are being generous. But writing for an audience of you, and the rest of the writing room, and leaning into those world views and morbidities -- is selfish, and lame.
Take Leslye Headland, who was raised in a strictly religious context. In her $230 million show [The Acolyte], there is a clear sense of her deconstructing strict religious sects and religious observance.
She's a lesbian, therefore the content will be heavy with sapphic themes, lesbian, and gay characters. She has unresolved cross-purposes with her sister -- therefore, that gets explored.
There's nothing wrong with personal stuff as a galvanizing force of creativity. The issue was with proportionality, self-indulgence. Whether a showrunner is playing their issues out without discretion or sufficient filters on the page and the screen. And whether the audience has been given appropriate enough consideration.
And the fact you didn't will a wholly new story world into existence, but just made whatever use you wanted of a brand with a built-in appeal.
The problem with trying to inject [political] messaging into entertainment, is that in entertainment -- first and foremost -- the medium is the message. If the entertainment is lackluster, people won't be receptive to you or your worldview. And if the audience doesn't show up, because you put the cart before the horse, then don't be petulant and blame the audience. It's not their fault.
If you're trying to be socially progressive, but your creativity is stale -- relying on the past to develop a progressive present -- then there's a disconnect there that people can sense and instinctively aren't interested in...
Narcissists are making content for no one
