Everything is always a "both, and.." situation. The business has been stuck in an either/or way of thinking and in doing so misses the clues for regular dose of cultural and aesthetic course correction. For 125 years, the film industry neglected wide segments of the audience. Like most businesses, in an effort to compensate for years of neglect, they made some errors. Very few are trained, let alone practice, long term holistic systems-based thinking. The industry went for dumbing down of work and thus the audience. It abandoned whole swaths. A well-balanced portfolio for all would have given them a wider map to examine for clues as to where mindsets might be heading. Fear has no place in this marriage of art and commerce. I am with you on betting heavily on thus that are right a lot. I also believe we need to have a system that produces outliers too. And although there is no reason in my book to just make the good, I do believe that we make a big mistake just relying on the genius of the few to generate the great. There are systems that can elevate a large proportion of the good into the great -- but it requires slowing down instead of instinctual desire to speed up. Nice post, Roy. Thanks for all the thought.
You’re of course right Roy let’s hope the need for profit and the desire to reinvigorate and reward talent merit and risk taking wins the day dispatching DEI to where it belong, to a Universe Far, Far Away!
Everything is always a "both, and.." situation. The business has been stuck in an either/or way of thinking and in doing so misses the clues for regular dose of cultural and aesthetic course correction. For 125 years, the film industry neglected wide segments of the audience. Like most businesses, in an effort to compensate for years of neglect, they made some errors. Very few are trained, let alone practice, long term holistic systems-based thinking. The industry went for dumbing down of work and thus the audience. It abandoned whole swaths. A well-balanced portfolio for all would have given them a wider map to examine for clues as to where mindsets might be heading. Fear has no place in this marriage of art and commerce. I am with you on betting heavily on thus that are right a lot. I also believe we need to have a system that produces outliers too. And although there is no reason in my book to just make the good, I do believe that we make a big mistake just relying on the genius of the few to generate the great. There are systems that can elevate a large proportion of the good into the great -- but it requires slowing down instead of instinctual desire to speed up. Nice post, Roy. Thanks for all the thought.
After three years of film industry research and analysis, we have come to similar conclusions.
From our perspective, Roy Price is "the smartest guy in the room."
Give this man a studio!
You’re of course right Roy let’s hope the need for profit and the desire to reinvigorate and reward talent merit and risk taking wins the day dispatching DEI to where it belong, to a Universe Far, Far Away!