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In response to
"sure, there are exceptions."
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groiny
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Well, those are four exceptions, and just the ones at the top of my head. So it's not really exceptions, it's a pattern.
Posted by
Roger More (aka rogermore)
Jan 18 '16, 09:22
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And like I pointed out above, we see extraordinary things happen quite frequently in Hollywood, but it doesn't change a lot.
Passion of the Christ didn't mean that Hollywood made a bunch more movies for religious audiences - they just kept doing what they knew how to do.
And if there is change, it's formulaic. "Wait, a movie with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker was a big hit?" The response is "We'd better make Rush Hour 2", not "We have to find other ways of bringing this audience back into theatres". Same with Tyler Perry. "Oh, let's just give Tyler Perry more money to do the same thing". And "Teenage girls like Hunger Games now? Let's buy the rights to some dystopian YA series we've never read", etc. And so on...
The thing that needs to change is how women and minorities are represented among the decision-makers in Hollywood - the people who decide which movies get made and which ones don't. (There's no easy answer for that either)
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