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Absurdly Driven look at the business world with a skeptical eye and a language firmly rooted in the cheek.
Snobbery is a mean trait.
Some have claimed that in England, it has been invented that this can give the author an excessive sense of his own superiority.
Sometimes, it takes a figure of authority to put the snob in their place.
I am embarking in this direction because of an extraordinary letter that just came out of the Department of Justice.
Variety obtained the letter written by the Department of Justice at the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Cinema, a delicate organ that hides behind the Oscars.
Makan Delrahim, who heads the Antitrust Division of the Ministry of Justice, uttered harsh and unusual words:
In the event that the Academy – an badociation that has several competitors among its members – establishes certain conditions of Oscar eligibility that eliminate competition without pro-competitive justification, such conduct may give rise to antitrust concerns.
Hollywood movies certainly do not fall into such a category. Or do they do it? Delrahim fears that they will:
Competitor agreements to exclude new competitors may violate antitrust laws where their purpose or effect is to prevent competition from the products or services that consumers buy and enjoy but that threaten corporate profits. in place.
Well yes. We can see that. But do many Oscar-winning films not yield enough money?
I do not often see a close correlation between Oscars for the best image and the huge box-office returns.
Or, indeed, between Best Picture Oscars and the best real pictures. (Which, in my little spirit, were represented last year by Blindness, the favorite and very little else.)
Again, the Oscars represent glory and glory. In all areas of creation, everyone is desperate, preferably a lot.
For its part, Spielberg seems to believe that once your movie is designed to be broadcast on a television screen, it simply does not deserve to be viewed alongside the pure show of movie films.
"Once you have engaged in a television format, you are a TV movie," Spielberg recently told ITV.
He therefore believes that your TV types deserve an Emmy, but not an Oscar.
It is also thrilling that the Trump administration has weighed so heavily alongside the Netflix, Amazon and Hulu films that can win Oscars.
The DOJ seems clearly used to defend younger and, according to some, more enterprising companies that have managed to capture more of the imagination and feelings of viewers than many traditional movie studios.
Of course, there are many very nuanced business aspects for those who not only own movie studios, but also want to stream their products.
Still, many things on TV seem – in my mind-boggling bubble of life – to offer a higher form of entertainment than most of today's movies.
Why, I have not seen anything that beats the glory and subtlety of Ten percent, for example.
It's a Netflix Original no matter what it means.
Ten percent Some of the most famous French movie stars are also playing in a way that is both soulful and soulful.
And honestly, have you ever seen a more captivating series than Episodes? Which, strangely, was linked to the blind madness and lack of pure taste of, oh, Hollywood.
These things are all subjective, of course. I may appreciate the entertainment that makes fun of the entertainment industry.
Regarding the letter from the DOJ, the Academy says it has responded "accordingly".
I suspect that at the heart of the Hollywood resistance, movie theaters are dying more and more.
The one in my city of California closed three years ago. People just did not go in sufficient numbers.
Streaming companies do not support the theater experience. They often shoot their movies in theaters for a week or less to qualify for the Oscars. For Hollywood fans, that is wrong.
Instead, I'm afraid they prefer it if Netflix has screened his movies at the movies for a few weeks rather than on Netflix.
Maybe some kind of compromise will be reached. The cinema experience is indeed something different and very rewarding.
But time and money can change and even destroy many previously revered experiences.
Just as vinyl still exists, so will cinemas. The Oscars will also stay for a while.
Until one day, people realize that they do not miss them very much.
We should, however, leave the last words to the highly acclaimed actress Helen Mirren.
On Tuesday, she was in Las Vegas promoting her new movie. The good liar.
So do we have a convert, a renegade of the Hollywood crowd? Not quite, because she added:
But f *** Netflix. There is nothing like sitting in a movie theater.
Ah, the creative mind is so tortured.
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