This article I believe represents my own retreat from going to the movies. They are too expensive to gamble on for viewers like me. I'm not motivated to watch superhero franchises. And $20 to watch a well acted adult drama without Godzilla or Batman is $20 too much. However I'm very motivated to see "Oppenheimer" and I might spend $25 for that film. But then I won't go to the movies again for another two years. I don't think they want to build a business around people like me.
Or like me! I feel the exact same way. And the truth is, these people (and I mean not just studio executives; I mean the keepers of the culture industries at the highest levels) aren’t interested in people like us. They want “consumers.” Not viewers or propel
I was born working class, never had an iota of paid education. 49 pupils to one teacher in one classroom in my South London primary school. No execs, writers, teachers, "professionals" in my family. The best cinema is not "middle class" but for all of us. There is no "middle class cinema"—this is a contradiction in terms. There is only the cinema of humanity. And yes—as you say Matthew, it has been progressively shut down.
Yes, that’s correct. “Middle class” was the pure budgetary descriptor, but this cinema of humanity, as you say, is no longer available from these corporations
Good one. The Player has now gone on my TBR list.
This article I believe represents my own retreat from going to the movies. They are too expensive to gamble on for viewers like me. I'm not motivated to watch superhero franchises. And $20 to watch a well acted adult drama without Godzilla or Batman is $20 too much. However I'm very motivated to see "Oppenheimer" and I might spend $25 for that film. But then I won't go to the movies again for another two years. I don't think they want to build a business around people like me.
Or like me! I feel the exact same way. And the truth is, these people (and I mean not just studio executives; I mean the keepers of the culture industries at the highest levels) aren’t interested in people like us. They want “consumers.” Not viewers or propel
People, rather
I was born working class, never had an iota of paid education. 49 pupils to one teacher in one classroom in my South London primary school. No execs, writers, teachers, "professionals" in my family. The best cinema is not "middle class" but for all of us. There is no "middle class cinema"—this is a contradiction in terms. There is only the cinema of humanity. And yes—as you say Matthew, it has been progressively shut down.
Yes, that’s correct. “Middle class” was the pure budgetary descriptor, but this cinema of humanity, as you say, is no longer available from these corporations