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Hollywood's Crisis: The Netflix-Warner Brothers Merger and Its Reverberations
The Illusion of Unbelievability in Modern Hollywood
The speaker starts by criticizing Hollywood's current flaw: an obsession with making "unbelievable, unremarkable" content. It's not just about a lack of realism—it's about the industry's failure to innovate or capture genuine human experience. Instead, Hollywood is caught in a cycle of outdated notions, heavy with ideological messaging and nostalgia for a bygone era where movies on colossal screens were kings.