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Post by AQUA RAPTOR! on Aug 14, 2023 2:50:50 GMT 1
This is very informative, actually.
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Post by Lord Death Man on Aug 14, 2023 18:05:26 GMT 1
This is very informative, actually. It's an excellent summary, but their "solution," while applicable to non-serialized storytelling, would not be an effective fix for Disney, IMO. Truth be told, there is no way to save Disney, at least not in its current state. Disney should be allowed to die. It's a brand whose value system (if such a thing exists in Corporate America) and culture are incompatible with 21st-century capitalism. The brand is the providence of those caught in a prepubescent timewarp who prefer to suckle on the teat of infantilism rather than face the harsh realities of a complex and predatory adult world. Its IPs, collectively, are the human equivalent of holding multiple contradictory ideas in a single corporate brain. Imagine having a dissociative identity disorder and trying to get your myriad personalities to sing the same song in perfect harmony. That is Disney's dilemma. Its successes always come at the cost of a self-imposed limiting factor on what can truly be achieved with a given property. None of its IPs ever reach its full potential because of… Disneyfication. As a creative, you must fight Disney's pervasive ethos in order to create meaningful and challenging content. Marvel managed to resist the law of Disney's perverted gravity because of the inherent strength of the IP. It's actually amazing that Disney has survived this long. Its demise undeniably started when it kowtowed to the Street's incessant demands to 'go forth and stream' at all costs. Not that streaming is a terrible idea, mind you; it's just clearly the province of technology companies and not Hollywood studios. Disney's storied past should be enshrined on a plaque and buried somewhere - the last vestiges of old Americana. The only purpose it can serve now is as a blood bag used to power the engine of iPhone sales. Apple's church of clean lines, symmetry, and endless miniaturization will purge the Disney machine of its delusions of culture and values. They will be baptized into the new faith of the 3-nanometer process and made to serve the unbinned system-on-chip architecture. This is the way.
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