The Sad State of Hollywood
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- čas přidán 10. 04. 2024
- It’s official. Hollywood is running out of ideas. With the news that Margot Robbie is being tapped to develop a movie with Lionsgate based on the board game Monopoly, this has got to be one of the biggest jokes I’ve ever seen in cinema. In a world filled with creative independent artists and struggling filmmakers, isn’t there anything better than we could come up with? Hell, even ChatGPT would be able to come up with five other ideas for movies that would be ten times more creative.
Moreover, it also shows me the almost desperate nature of Hollywood's desire to simply go to Margot Robbie to make money. After seeing her success with Barbie, I can just imagine some old executives at Electronic Arts and Activity coming to her with the proposal for Sims and then now with Hasbro with Monopoly saying something like, “Look, we love what you’ve done. Can you make us a billion dollars for this game?" It feels so sad to see.
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What is Monopoly?
Monopoly is a multiplayer economics-themed board game. In the game, players roll two dice to move around the game board, buying and trading properties and developing them with houses and hotels. Players collect rent from their opponents and aim to drive them into bankruptcy. Money can also be gained or lost through Chance and Community Chest cards and tax squares. Players receive a salary every time they pass "Go" and can end up in jail, from which they cannot move until they have met one of three conditions. House rules, hundreds of different editions, many spin-offs, and related media exist. Monopoly has become a part of international popular culture, having been licensed locally in more than 103 countries and printed in more than 37 languages. As of 2015, it was estimated that the game had sold 275 million copies worldwide. The original game was based on locations in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States with the exception of Marven Gardens which is in adjacent Ventnor, NJ.
Monopoly is derived from The Landlord's Game, created in 1903 in the US by Lizzie Magie, as a way to demonstrate that an economy rewarding individuals is better than one where monopolies hold all the wealth. It also served to promote the economic theories of Henry George-in particular, his ideas about taxation. The Landlord's Game originally had two sets of rules, one with tax and another on which the current rules are mainly based. When Parker Brothers first published Monopoly in 1935, the game did not include the less capitalistic taxation rule, resulting in a more aggressive game. Parker Brothers was eventually absorbed into Hasbro in 1991. The game is named after the economic concept of a monopoly-the domination of a market by a single entity.
The history of Monopoly can be traced back to 1903, when American anti-monopolist Lizzie Magie created a game called The Landlord's Game that she hoped would explain the single-tax theory of Henry George as laid out in his book Progress and Poverty. It was intended as an educational tool, to illustrate the negative aspects of concentrating land in private monopolies. She took out a patent in 1904. Her game was self-published, beginning in 1906.
Magie created two sets of rules: an anti-monopolist set in which all were rewarded when wealth was created, and a monopolist set in which the goal was to create monopolies and crush opponents.
Several variant board games, based on her concept, were developed from 1906 through the 1930s; they involved both the process of buying land for its development, and the sale of any undeveloped property. Cardboard houses were added, and rents increased as they were added to a property. Magie patented the game again in 1923.
According to an advertisement placed in The Christian Science Monitor, Charles Todd of Philadelphia recalled the day in 1932 when his childhood friend Esther Jones and her husband, Charles Darrow, came to his house for dinner. After the meal, the Todds introduced Darrow to The Landlord's Game, which they then played several times. The game was entirely new to Darrow, and he asked the Todds for a written set of the rules. After that night, Darrow went on to utilize it to distribute the game himself as Monopoly.
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Barbie didn't actually have a character before the adaptation. Every version of Barbie is nothing like the Gerwig film, why is it so weird that they invent characters for monopoly and make it compelling? They made it for Jumanji FFS, and monopoly has the guy already for brand recognition.
I think making random board game films is a more fun idea than having the billionth Liam Neesan or The Rock action film. We're missing comedies.
Also, companies do both original ideas and franchise ideas, you go see whatever you want to see. I saw Poor Things 4 times in the cinema. Companies like Fox Searchlight and A24 exist to make original films, it's not like we're in a bankrupt dystopia.
Also movies were always made for audiences instead of just good movies, wtf is the clip at the end about.
Every point in the video is dumb, I just got frustrated towards the end.
Critical drinker tier.
Have there not been several Barbie animated movies? Jumanji is a better example, however, the original story of Jumanji had characters already and the modern-updated reboots are less than a shining example.
Would you prefer a random board game film over something more original? Why not invest in higher quality of works in the same vein of the A24 outlook or even the Blumhouse direction of taking creative risks with original filmmakers.
I agree we're not in bankrupt dystopia but has the focus shifted away from telling good stories versus catering for what we know will attract an audience based on name recognition and existing IP?
What changed across all industries is that statistics are more important than believing in the art form. This problem is by no means unique to the movie industry. What works must be tried nd proven already or it simply doesn't work.
Agreed. Statistics and market research seems to be the way forward.
@@motioninart The issue with this is that it leads to no one having a brain. Most statistics are extremely relative. Yet people will blow them beyond proportion and try to apply them to an entire way of life.
Companies talk about how much employee turnover there is. There's turn over because you directly influence those statistics. Stop being reactionary and start being proactive and maybe the statistics will shift to your liking.
I think I've finally reached the point where I just don't care anymore. If studios want to keep wasting time, money, and resources on bloated, soulless blockbusters, I say let them.
Agreed
I don't agree on Barbie. This movie is made by professionals, it has some amount of artistic value, but it is soulless. Because it is an ordered product.
but I agree on what's going on with Hollywood. This garbage will keep pumping out until the boiling point point is reached and this whole thing will collapse. Then the new era of cinematography will begin. We just have to be patient
Hopefully our patience pays off
By the half way in you pointed out how the underlying concept in the gameplay could relate to real world events, and it's not a far reach from there to use that as vehicle to satirize ruthless behavior in real estate development and various industries.
Truly a cinematic masterpiece
What characters would you have?
when you look at monopolies and our 'anti monopoly' laws, they've actually failed because what the companies do is sell majority of their shares to other companies, including the megacorps that own all the smaller companies. So it's virtually one monopoly. Because of the reddit stuff, only GameStop is a major company who's shares aren't majortively other companies. Basically every company owns each other and all use their unified interest to manipulate markets and profits with fake competition presented to prevent uprising at this revelation. Why do you think every corp is so coordinated in world events despite 'competing'?
A movie about this and possible destruction of it would be cool but they don't like people being aware of this to entertain that idea.
Woah my comment about monopolies seems to have deleted. I didn't even use bad words. Interesting...
I'll try again. The idea of monopolies and antitrust laws are irrelevant because all major companies and corps own shares in each other more than non-corps, so they are essentially one consolidated entity pretending it isn't.
That intro reminds me of "Rob Schneider is a Stapler!" czcams.com/video/2nXpVl9l43A/video.html&ab_channel=Vetock
hahahahaha
Wait... what???
Yes
Wasn't Clue a cult classic. People are aggravating AF.
Possibly. It seemed similar in the same style of The Pink Panther. Maybe a bit more camp.
Cult classic implies it was a initially panned to wide audiences.
Clue was ORIGINAL. That's the difference. Nothing Hollywood does is original anymore. Nothing.
You don't know anything about it but because you can't figure out what you'd do with it, so then you assume no one else can do it either?
They did Batleship, cheesy and dumb in a lot of places, but stil brainless fun and executed well enough for what it was.
I could think of a few interesting ways it could go, and I don't even make movies for a living.
Still calling it brainless means it's mindless slop to illicit a dopamine response. A subhuman entertainment.
^thus
If you enjoy brainless fun then by all means, you do you. But do you really deep down in your soul believe those are the movies you have enjoyed the most?
Why would you assume that I can’t figure out what I’d do with it?
I’d love to hear your thoughts on what interesting ways it could go, genuinely curious.
^this*
@@hippopilot6750 you're calling a lot of people, including likely millions of videogame players if you want to talk about 'brainless' in entertainment, 'subhuman' for liking something more than you do. Get off your high horses.
There are lots of better movies out there. But Margot knows someone who knows someone
She does indeed
First 🥇
Boardgame movies have been around since the 80s stop pretending that this is a new thing...
We haven't seen boardgame movies and existing IP drawing this much attention though, no?
Its nit that they are out of ideas its that investors dont want to take risks and want to do whats worked before. Monopoly actually makes sense. It was made to critique capitalism and landlords and now its been taken and turned into a game and now a movie with no soul.
Agreed