I stream
You stream
We all stream for original content over franchises
Why watch a stale “Fast and Furious #23” or “Indiana Jones and the Wheelchair of Death”?
There are a lot of foreign shows of interest out there on the streaming services.
It isn’t the difference between “franchise” and “original” content, it’s the creative input. So many of the big corporate companies think they can slap a “brand” on poop content—and that “brand” alone will make people buy it.
Avocado
and
Toast
astounds these folks.
They will pay 20 bucks for it.
How dare they re-boot Road House.
How dare they......
The never leave home generation squatters who live in their parents homes have sooo much more free time than the generations who worked.
“…and 74% said they were interested in seeing more diversity and representation on screen…”
So they want to see more White people then…?
Something to possibly take a look at on Netflix is a Korean show called physical 100. It has an English dub so you can follow - an elimination show that starts with 100 athletes of all shapes and sizes with men and women competing for a large prize and people who fail at various challenges being eliminated throughout. Interesting show without the back biting and scheming junk of something if Hollywood produced it - the focus is on the athletes and when in teams, the strategy they come up with for how to win. There is one part early on when a female power lifter thought she could be the girl boss and challenged an average guy who just easily handled her in a one on one contest. Reality resulted.
This is an important question but this is actually not a very useful way of asking it. "Diversity" is fine as long as it is subordinated to the story. Of course American movies will be more "diverse" onscreen as the population continues to diversify. BUT -- diversity should be reflective of the reality being portrayed. When and where is a movie set? Diversity does not have the same implications for an American film set in 2024 as it did for a movie set in 1924, 1824 and 1724. Nor, even today, does diversity mean the same thing for a movie set in Montana vs. one set in Chicago or NYC or a small town in West Virginia, Nebraska or Mississippi. Etc.
Diversity is a problem when it is forced into unrealistic settings. There were not a lot of black, asian or Native American Vikings roaming around northern Europe a thousand years ago. Etc. Racial stuntcasting is the problem. The problem is that actors and advocacy groups are interested almost entirely in the job count, so diversity becomes a cynical powerplay and realism is sacrificed.
So what does the 74 percent really think? The way the question is posed, there is one obviously politically correct answer, and most of them probably mouthed that by sheer reflex. The important follow-on question would be about forced, artificial diversity; I doubt that very many respondents would approve of Zulu impis being 60 percent white in a Shaka Zulu movie.