What ON EARTH Is Going On With HOLLYWOOD? (WOKE CULTURE, SJWs, ULTRA-FEMINISM, LGBTQ AGENDA) Are They Trying To WRECK The Decades Old STUDIO SYSTEM And REPLACE IT?

[HistoryIsComplex]

Hollywood has always been on the political LEFT more than the RIGHT. That doesn't bother me one bit.

 

What I do NOT understand is WHAT THE FUCK HOLLYWOOD IS DOING TO MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT - THEY ALSO MAKE TV SHOWS, MUSIC AND GAMES - RIGHT NOW.

 

Was the plan to GET US ALL HOOKED ON GOOD, ACCEPTABLE HOLLYWOOD MOVIES FOR 3 DECADES, then PULL THE RUG OUT FROM THE WHOLE THING AND PUSH A WEIRD AGENDA?

 

Are NEW PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF HOLLYWOOD NOW, or was the plan ALWAYS TO DO THIS WHEN 2020 ROLLS AROUND?

 

What do you people think is happening in LA?

 

 

Edited September 11, 2020 by HistoryIsComplex

[Michi713]

Hollywood has always been about degrading society and mind control, MKUltra programming, promoting American Fascism, and money above all things.  

 

The messaging was always there even in the tamer films of yesterday, mostly to promote a degraded lifestyle and all its trappings.  See any Vigilant Citizen article about old Hollywood to confirm. 

 

Hollywood has always had a communist agenda, but it turned more blatantly satanic in the 60’s.  

 

As time went on technology and mind control techniques got more sophisticated.  Now that two or three generations of programmed masses have gone by Hollywood doesn’t have to hide it’s agenda anymore, just as the government can also be more obvious.  

 

A substantial portion of Hollywood was recently bought by Chinese companies, which is actually the CCP. 

[rideforever]

It's a really good question and I think the answer is that the California is geographically remote from Europe or any centre of civilisation and so it was not colonised or developed in an organized way, unlike the East Coast of the US which was close to Europe  which was settled organised and encultured normally.

 

But California was not, it was settled from different directions by different people ... it was multi-cultural due to its geography.  And many of the people that arrived there were brutal pioneering types, murderers, gold miners, and drunk sailors, and immigrants from China and Mexico.  These people thought they were in heaven and drunk, fought, killed, got rich, prostituted and so on.  Even today it's still a long way from anywhere.

Interestingly even the Spanish who had fort towns in earlier California were worried about the approach of America and broke up every Catholic Mission and sold off all the churches to try and keep hold of the area .. and this damaged any kind of organised developed of the State.

 

When the cat is away the mice will play.

 

San Francisco was settled in this way ... a gold rush on a river in 1840.  40,000 people rushed over to pan the river for gold, they were almost all men, no women ... and they were immigrants speaking different languages with no law and order, no society and no leaders ... and sodomy took root, along with gambling, moonshine production, daylight murder.  There was gold and there was no law, there was no culture and no society.  Anyone who found gold would be killed if anyone else found out, killed and robbed.  Gangs from Sydney Australia took control of that river at some point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_culture_in_San_Francisco#19th_century

 

Cannibalism parties in LA today

 

Edited September 11, 2020 by rideforever

[Messenger]

3 hours ago, HistoryIsComplex said:

Hollywood has always been on the political LEFT more than the RIGHT. That doesn't bother me one bit.

 

What I do NOT understand is WHAT THE FUCK HOLLYWOOD IS DOING TO MOVIES AND ENTERTAINMENT - THEY ALSO MAKE TV SHOWS, MUSIC AND GAMES - RIGHT NOW.

 

Was the plan to GET US ALL HOOKED ON GOOD, ACCEPTABLE HOLLYWOOD MOVIES FOR 3 DECADES, then PULL THE RUG OUT FROM THE WHOLE THING AND PUSH A WEIRD AGENDA?

 

Are NEW PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF HOLLYWOOD NOW, or was the plan ALWAYS TO DO THIS WHEN 2020 ROLLS AROUND?

 

What do you people think is happening in LA?

 

 

It's about controlling people's mind and breaking down humanity and reducing our numbers. The agenda seems to have changed around the late 90's early 2000's when they began feeding the public multi-racial programming, white women with black men mostly. Then after they normalized that they began with the LGBT agenda. Ultimately all this programming breaks down a persons lineage and breaks the family unit which results in population reduction. Everything the cabal do is about controlling people and reducing the population so that the old bloodlines can remain in power. Hapsbergs, Bernhard, rothschild, rockefeller, and other's that are not as common, they believe they are lineage from Anunnaki and Gods and so they believe that it is their right to rule over everyone else and Hollywood is one of the mechanisms they use to brainwash the population.

 

The name Hollywood is derived from the actual Holly tree in which witches would make their wands. Hollywood is run by the black magicians and are an arm of the CIA, and the CIA originally began as the OSS which was from Britain.

 

If you want more information, find a interview by Dave McGowan and Jay Dyer I think is who the two guys are who talked about Laurel Canyon.

 

Here it is. Listen to this, it's long but it's some juicy amazing information.

 

 

[HistoryIsComplex]

Hollywood is DYING though. Last year's Oscars broadcast lost 6 million viewers from the year before - they went from 29 Million TV viewers to 23 Million in 1 year.

 

The movies they are turning out are increasingly SHIT QUALITY. They have no STAR FILM DIRECTORS anymore. They keep giving big awards to GAY themed movies.

 

And this year, COVID19 FUCKED THE CINEMA CHAINS and caused DOZENS OF BIG FILM PROJECTS TO BE CANCELLED.

 

Hollywood seems pretty SCREWED to me, for now at least.

[Mr H]

Yeah just read about this seems totally and utterly bizarre.....

 

We seem to be coming into an ever increasingly rules based culture and society. I do sometimes wonder if this increase in rules and the demand to comply with them is a tip toe towards transhumanism? I say this because a computer operates on a rules based system. So once humans merge with computers as is the plan, then the new entity will be easier to control.....But that is just wacky conspiracy! (maybe!)

[Messenger]

5 hours ago, HistoryIsComplex said:

Hollywood is DYING though. Last year's Oscars broadcast lost 6 million viewers from the year before - they went from 29 Million TV viewers to 23 Million in 1 year.

 

The movies they are turning out are increasingly SHIT QUALITY. They have no STAR FILM DIRECTORS anymore. They keep giving big awards to GAY themed movies.

 

And this year, COVID19 FUCKED THE CINEMA CHAINS and caused DOZENS OF BIG FILM PROJECTS TO BE CANCELLED.

 

Hollywood seems pretty SCREWED to me, for now at least.

It is but the damage they have caused is already done. But Hollywood is owned by the cabal who also own all the major corporations in every industry including food and agriculture, which is why I preach to unite and grow food so that we are not dependent upon the cabal anymore.

[rideforever]

The thing that is missing is that the wolves are always at your gate, if you become weak they will tear you apart, destroy your culture, screw your women and so on.  Same old same old.

The Western culture has clearly lost its strength, it doesn't believe in itself, it is being attacked from outside and inside ... but the wolves are always there so it means something has died inside the culture.

You can't blame wolves for being wolves.  They are always there.

And ... the way diseases progress is that they start to chew bits off the outside and seek to get their claws in to the organs, once they do they collapse happens quickly.

Society in the West is making an adjustment here ... and an adjustment there, to try and keep things together.

But ... its mojo seems to have been lost, and for me it's clear that the West no longer has any goals, any contact with the transcendant ... meaning goals higher than the material world.  It has no church.  And death follows.

Because without spirit material just dies, it does not animate itself.

 

The desperation to treat computers as spirituality ... what this shows is that Western people are already lost, I think they are finished ... because material people cannot help themselves.  Spiritual help is not found inside the material world it comes from the outside ... that is what Jesus did, he came from the outside to help people living in a material prison,

I don't know what Western people respect anymore.

 

Western people think they have everything.  All consumer goods.  They made it, and now they have everything they will merge with computers.

But ... do they really have everything?
Do they have oak beds, or mass produced chipboard garbage manufacturerd by Ikea's machines, the wood being 2/3rds glue combined with wood chips and plastic?

The supermarkets are full of food ... or is it "food", mass produced by scientists clever food substitutes, chemical vitamins, dying wheat full of pesticide.

 

Do they really have everything ?
They have the illusion of everything.

And the endless sense stimulation of the media, the violence, the hatred, the drama, the sexualisation ... it numbs them ... they don't feel anything.

They don't feel things any more ... they are numb after the media's stimulation.

They can't tell the difference between being alive and dead.

This is why indulgence kills societies, it numbs people.

Then they cannot even tell the difference between men and women.

Or between themselves and a machine.

Or between themselves and an agenda.

 

... I was going to stick in one of the Ikea adverts here, but it made me vomit so I removed it ...

Edited September 12, 2020 by rideforever

[bamboozooka]

hollywood is dying

music industry is dying

professional sport is dying

fake news media already dead

 

all the things created  to distract the masses are dying.

has to be a good thing.

does this mean there really is an awakening happening

[alexa]

55 minutes ago, bamboozooka said:

all the things created  to distract the masses are dying.

has to be a good thing.

 

It's what they are going to replace it with that bothers me.

[HistoryIsComplex]

4 hours ago, alexa said:

 

It's what they are going to replace it with that bothers me.

 

I think they are going back to 80s tunes in music.

 

Hollywood is a ??? right now. But I do agree - WHAT are they going to replace the OLD SYSTEM with.

 

[allymisfit]

10 hours ago, Mr H said:

Yeah just read about this seems totally and utterly bizarre.....

 

We seem to be coming into an ever increasingly rules based culture and society. I do sometimes wonder if this increase in rules and the demand to comply with them is a tip toe towards transhumanism? I say this because a computer operates on a rules based system. So once humans merge with computers as is the plan, then the new entity will be easier to control.....But that is just wacky conspiracy! (maybe!)

Definitely not wacky! This is very thought out and yeah, I can imagine that a possibility! 

[HistoryIsComplex]

13 hours ago, Mr H said:

We seem to be coming into an ever increasingly rules based culture and society. I do sometimes wonder if this increase in rules and the demand to comply with them is a tip toe towards transhumanism? I say this because a computer operates on a rules based system. So once humans merge with computers as is the plan, then the new entity will be easier to control.....But that is just wacky conspiracy! (maybe!)

 

 

That is precisely what Elon Musk's wife sings about:

 

 

[rideforever]

Images of the devil appears in many forms of culture at the moment.

Anyone not rapidly leaving this world will regret it.

[HistoryIsComplex]

1 hour ago, rideforever said:

Images of the devil appears in many forms of culture at the moment.

Anyone not rapidly leaving this world will regret it.

 

Scripture says pretty explicitly that the Antichrist will reign for some time, that many stupid people will follow him, and that only the Second Coming will defeat him.

[rideforever]

2 minutes ago, HistoryIsComplex said:

Second Coming

 

God helps those who helps themselves.  If you know how now is a good time to make strong efforts.  

[HistoryIsComplex]

1 hour ago, rideforever said:

 

God helps those who helps themselves.  If you know how now is a good time to make strong efforts.  

 

Scripture also says that one should make efforts. It just predicts that a sheepish majority will simply bow its head to the AC.

[rideforever]

20 minutes ago, HistoryIsComplex said:

Scripture also says that one should make efforts. It just predicts that a sheepish majority will simply bow its head to the AC.

 

Sure, of course they will they know no better.

I think the world seems very confused at the moment and it is necessary to turn away from looking at the bad things and simply practice much harder.

[Michi713]

2 hours ago, HistoryIsComplex said:

 

I think they are going back to 80s tunes in music.

 

Hollywood is a ??? right now. But I do agree - WHAT are they going to replace the OLD SYSTEM with.

 

80s would be great!  Loved going dancing at 80s night.  Love me some Flock of Seagulls. 
 

Well production of movies has resumed for now.  A lot of streaming material.  It’s funny because China bought out all the major movie theaters in the US prior to the pandemic so their plans have been dashed.  
 

Did y’all have that whole Pokémon Go craze over there?  It was an overlap of gaming with reality.  Everyone was falling into the street and crashing cars over it.  Well that’s the future: games/tv integrated, multiverses, “screenless screens.”

 

 

 

[Coldrum]

OP we know you love dancing 

 

[EnigmaticWorld]

On 9/12/2020 at 3:09 PM, Michi713 said:

Did y’all have that whole Pokémon Go craze over there?  It was an overlap of gaming with reality.

 

I'm convinced that was a test run to get the public used to the idea of hunting down targets, which will probably be fugitives/dissidents in future.

 

 

Edited September 19, 2020 by EnigmaticWorld

[SoundOfSilence]

On 9/12/2020 at 8:32 AM, HistoryIsComplex said:

Hollywood is DYING though. Last year's Oscars broadcast lost 6 million viewers from the year before - they went from 29 Million TV viewers to 23 Million in 1 year.

 

The movies they are turning out are increasingly SHIT QUALITY. They have no STAR FILM DIRECTORS anymore. They keep giving big awards to GAY themed movies.

 

And this year, COVID19 FUCKED THE CINEMA CHAINS and caused DOZENS OF BIG FILM PROJECTS TO BE CANCELLED.

 

Hollywood seems pretty SCREWED to me, for now at least.

Hollywood used to be very conservative. I am talking about the golden years of the studio system.

 

The studio system ended in 1948 following the Supreme Court decision in Paramount. The decision was that the same corporation could not own the studios and the theater chains.

 

The decision was intended to break up a monopoly and result in more diversification.

 

But, as usual, with any government action the result was exactly the opposite. Under the studio system producers could afford to experiment. They knew that they could force their controlled theaters to show the film for a couple of weeks and recoup some of the money spent. So they were prepared to take risks.

 

However, once the theaters were independently owned the theater owners wanted bums on seats.

 

The best way to ensure this was to show only blockbusters. 

 

So the business shifted from supply side economics more to a demand driven system.

 

You can see the results of this overnight. If you look on Wikipedia there is a list of Oscar winners for best picture giving the studio that produced each winner. Other than a couple produced by Samuel Goldwyn they all went to the major studios.

 

But after 1948 you see the emergence of the independent producers.

 

Independent producers cannot afford to take risks. So the blockbuster trend continued.

 

But now there is the added pressure of royalties. Most revenue generated in the ridiculous superhero films comes from selling merchandise. To retain the rights to the merchandising producers need to keep pumping out mediocre content. The rights only run a certain time from the film.

 

As for when the globalists and the satanic pedophile cult infiltrated Hollywood I do not know exactly. But it certainly required the independent producers who rely on big banker money to fund their films.

 

The studio system was self financing and was quite robust to such outside influences.

 

I can imagine the reaction of Louis B. Mayer to someone pitching Brokeback Mountain to him. He was very patriotic and very conservative and didn't consider fist fights beneath him.

 

Of course the infiltration was by design.

 

The first step was to break up the studio system.

 

It is interesting how the US government does not seem to have a problem with the same business model when it is applied to the auto industry.

 

But yes, Hollywood is finished.

 

 

 

[MatrixMan]

Just stay with me for a minute. You look at influencers of the internet age. 1st the newspapers, and MSM channels came online to try and hold onto their readers, until they figured out how to create an internet income stream.  They are the internet influencers of the 90's and the first decade of the 200's. At that time Hollywood was still pretty much offline, and still having influence in the cinemas and through DVD's.

 

The Hollywood tv and movie actors, tv hosts, some radio programs hosts, musicians, sports stars have been the biggest influencers for decades (unchallenged until the age of the internet). When the internet came along, search engines wielded enormous influence, but didn't capitalise on the potential until Google (with it's advanced search algorithms changed the game).

 

Before that the newspapers started to come online along with MSM tv stations, through the 90's to the mid 2000s had a good run, but as we moved into the age of social media platforms and personal video streaming another shift came, and the influencers were people that came from anywhere, even some people who never acted, never put out a song, even people with no talent at all became huge stars online, and some of whom subsequently became bigger influencers than the biggest Hollywood stars of today.

 

This created a problem for the puppeteers owners) of Hollywood and the MSM, newspapers who until recently had centralised control of these industries.  They still control the politicians and other influential figures, but then as influencers became more independent, the puppeteers wanted to find a way to regain control of their lost grasp on societies.

 

I believe their system was to use political correctness by using their MSM media platforms and MSM TV to push that agenda.  They know that politicians are absolutely at the mercy of MSM, and thus will adapt to what ever agenda the MSM media pushes onto the public.

 

I believe these overlords also wanted to divisive social engineering to divide us into several more manageable groups.  Starting at universities by sponsoring universities they gave caveats pushing their liberal left agendas to influence younger generations, preparing them to be liberal minded or make them feel ostracised at an age where having friends and a social life is most important.

 

They then moved onto schools, with younger generations, trying to introduce into education curriculum divisive ideologies to make children feel guilty about historical periods by making them feel in some way associated to the ethnic groups who carried out these injustices.

 

This in itself should be seen as a criminal agenda to mass influence young children to mess with their minds and confuse them, cause them to overthink, to feel bad and to feel responsible, causing in untold millions of children damaging thoughts, possibly lowering self esteem, and creating a more negative self image. But astonishingly, in this day and age, it is being rolled out in schools in America.

 

As hard to believe as it is, it gets worse, as now Hollywood is making a comeback on the fairly new online entertainment streaming industry.  Hollywood and online streaming companies are churning out weird content, overly pc, liberal left woke content.  This again is saturating that industry so much, that there is virtually no new content without it, therefor young people cannot avoid this content if they want to watch anything at all.

 

So they go to school and are brainwashed, they come home, and watch any entertainment online and it's all woke.  Also social media companies is being heavily influenced by these elites to censor anyone who speaks against the narrative, the agenda these people are peddling. Where is this heading?  It's the same group of people regaining their global monopoly of influence.

 

Hollywood is really old school influencers, who have lost a lot of ground to online stars. But the global elite have now regained censorship of the online influencers and are pushing hard their agendas on young people to ensure future generations will grow up with some liberal left influences they picked up from school, universities and online entertainment.

 

This will keep the future generations inline as they are being trained to be weary of and adapt to new woke, and political correct trends.  It's fascinating to see how people of the day, even older generations tow the line in order to fit into society.

 

Just look at each generation.  Look how men had outlandish handle bar moustaches in the late 1900's, then in the 30's to 50's men wore hats, and in the seventies even men in their 50's had side burns, and young people in the 60's grew long hair and became hippies, as it was a socially accepted way to be cool and fit in.

 

Now it's socially cool to dye your hair blue, self hate for being white, and being liberal, and left.  These are the new cold social norms of today the global elite want the young people to look to, but it's a hard sell.  More and more young people are questioning the narrative, are making up their own minds.  They sense that they are being manipulated, because it doesn't feel like a fun harmless appearance trend, it's becoming to restrictive in the way they can behave, and there is no fun side to these social trends, it's all doom and gloom, boring, restrictive, especially at an age where a young person wants to choose their trend, the trends are being demonised, and sexual trends are being promoted.

 

that's not much fund to the majority who are heterosexual, so it's a turn off.  In my view it causes more harm than good, as young people associate oppressive mandates by a certain section of society pushed on the rest of us.  That causes deep resentment, and divisiveness. Parents have the ultimate influence and their word will prevail on their children behind close doors.

 

Overall it's a giant mess.  Western governments seem to almost promote society to normalise broken families with advantageous opportunities for those who separate, such as a council flat in the U.K. that you can buy at 50% discount after 5 years occupation.  How's that for an incentive?

 

And pitch that against a young women having to take out a giant student loan to better herself, then the government has offered a no-brainer to many women.  Have a baby, go to the council, and tell them you are homeless, and by law they have to provide you with safe and warm accommodation.

 

At the same time men are demonised and marginalised by the government system almost to support the social perverse system.  Again if you follow the money it will paint the picture.  How do you follow the money? Easy, look where influencers make their money.  Politicians make their money from side hustles, foundations that they can funnel money, lobbyists, promises of speech circuits, and plum jobs when they leave politics etc.. 

 

they are influencers of society because they vote for legislation. The global elite have their tentacles into each are of our system.  Social media influencers have to tow the line or risk losing their income streams (that's following the money) actors, musicians, hosts, sports stars all are under contract by companies controlled by the global elite, that's following the money.  It's all down to money, and in politics it's also down to power, and prestige.

 

So we are being hit from every angle.  From the government where even the police are being used to kick down your door if you say something wrong online, and politicians are passing hate laws and giving police more powers to change from being traditional crime fighters, to becoming thought police to support the new agendas that are being broadcasted to the public.

 

 They don't want other foreign countries to gain to much ground, so they keep Hollywood like another horse in the stable. Hollywood also has huge control over the cinemas, where there is still a huge global demand, and where they can buy into popular franchises.

 

Silicon valley buys up new start-up apps and websites that are becoming popular, resulting in a few giants monopolising the internet, just as the MSM is owned by a few companies.  I believe the Bilderberg and Davos, and such like meetings are where horse trading is done by the global elite to make offers to political influencers of politics, and other global organisations that the global elite want to push a certain narrative, I imagine many promises are made there.  

 

 

So what is the future of Hollywood?
I think why Hollywood is still so relevant is simply because of the old mass manipulation psychology trick i.e. when almost everyone is acting in a similar manner, and their values and opinions are almost identical.  This is an extremely powerful way to influence people.  A human being has a natural proclivity to seek out what the majority of people are of the same or similar mindset, and naturally see that as most likely to be the most sensible judgment.

 

Like MSM people used to think because it's on the news it must be true, it must be right, it must be moral, it must be acceptable by society, they too see large groups of people all behaving virtually the same way, therefor...

 

So even though Hollywood, and sports elites seems to be on a self destructive path, they have no choice.  It's tow the line, or you're out of the club, or worse, you could be setup.  It's no wonder so many of these once esteemed actors and sports stars are oddly turning on the majority of their audience.  It can only mean one thing.  Who pays them is who really matters.  The fans don't matter as much as the money coming in, it's that simple.

 

The perverse films is not their choice, the perverse divisive destructive radical groups are not what a sports stars will go out of their way to ruin their career to support, it's what the global elite want as they are the money men.

 

So to me the question about Hollywood is important, and it is a symptom of a bigger disease.  I think this disease is really something more primitive.  It's a human propensity, to rule, to gain power.  Most of us don't see this, because most of us don't taste power and wealth.  Once you get a taste it plays on your mind.

 

You might be wealthy, but you want more, it's human propensity to go further, to taste more, to prove to yourself, it becomes a game as you gain wealth, you can take more gambles as you can afford to lose, it's like a drug, call it ambition, its desire to be centre of attention to be very important, this is like a drug that plays on powerful people's minds.  They cannot stop, because there is nothing they found more fun, more alluring.

 

Yeah many people can buy a ranch, buy an island, a private jet, live a playboy lifestyle a hundred lifetimes over, but that is not what drove them to get there, and certainly doesn't pacify their propensities just because they got to another level.  Like when you play a game, you want to get to the next level to prove you can do it, it's the same with rich and powerful people, they live to play, and the global elite are at the top level in the game of life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[SoundOfSilence]

On 12/5/2021 at 5:15 AM, MatrixMan said:

The Hollywood tv and movie actors, tv hosts, some radio programs hosts, musicians, sports stars have been the biggest influencers for decades (unchallenged until the age of the internet). When the internet came along, search engines wielded enormous influence, but didn't capitalise on the potential until Google (with it's advanced search algorithms changed the game).

 

I am not sure I agree with this.

 

You really cannot compare modern Hollywood with the Golden Age. The difference in scale is staggering. 

 

The internet didn’t break Hollywood. It was already finished. It was finished through an antitrust case in 1948 and television. IMHO.

 

There were five major studios. Called the Big Five. But I will focus on the biggest. M-G-M.

 

In its heyday Hollywood certainly didn’t suffer from a lack of ability to market its product.

 

In the early 1930s it used lobby cards, fanzines, gossip columns, posters, interviews and radio promotions to promote upcoming films.

 

For example.

 

Greta Garbo was the biggest star of all time. Movies, music, whatever. The term Garbomania was coined way, way before the Beatles. She was so popular that the printing presses at M-G-M literally ran 24 hours a day. You could wallpaper the globe with her publicity photos. Almost. They printed that many.

 

In 1931 a Pashtun Tribe tribe opened fire on a cinema on the Afghan border when the theatre owner refused to let them take their horses in with them to see a film. They had rode hundred of miles to see 'Inspiration' starring Greta Garbo. But it does make you wonder how nomadic warlords living in the desert could have even heard of Garbo. And it certainly makes you wonder if the interweb could have that reach. Even today.

 

For two decades Louis B Mayer was the highest paid executive in America. Surpassing even the automobile industry execs.

 

From the mid 1920s through to 1940s M-G-M employed 5,000 people in all manner of trades. Its backlots sprawled hundreds of acres hosting cities and towns which could be used to replicate any setting.

 

M-G-M’s carpenters could build literally anything that production required. And M-G-M had everything. Its own police department, its own fire department, a school for the child stars and it even had a zoo should an animal be required for a film.

 

From the 1930s to the 1940s M-G-M was run like a production line. As soon as a new project was given the green light writers and researchers were busy preparing the scripts. Design would be consulted to plan sets and props. Construction would start and actors and directors would be allocated in advance. By the time those directors’ and actors’ current projects had completed the scripts, sets and costumes would be ready and filming would commence on the new film.

 

M-G-M’s huge film laboratory processed an average of four and a half million feet of film per week and consumed up to 300,000 gallons of water per day supplied by the studio’s three artesian wells.

 

The Property Department was the world’s largest and maintained more than 1,000,000 items from every country and historical period, providing anything from a mantel clock to a full-sized locomotive, row boats to horse drawn buggies, antique furniture and crystal chandeliers to medieval swords and machine guns. All owned by the studio.

 

The Makeup Department had the capacity to meet the makeup requirements of up to 1,200 actors an hour and could handle as many as 12,000 in a single day.

 

As many as 100,000 yards of fabric (or a thousand football fields) and other materials were cut annually in the Wardrobe Department which had 15 warehouses, housing 150,000 costumes representing nearly every historical period. This department could equip as many as 5,000 actors and extras in a single day. Here the fashion designer Adrian supplied the style for M-G-M’s biggest female stars.

 

It had its own telephone exchange. The studio operators handled a switchboard with 2,400 extensions and routed thousands of calls a day.

 

It had its own power department. The annual electricity used by the studio, and supplied by the studio’s own electrical plant, would light over 25,000 homes.

 

People today just don't realize the phenomenal scale of the old Hollywood business model.

 

Any business operating on this scale at the dawn of the internet era would have had no problems adapting. The suggestion that it would have missed a marketing opportunity thereby resulting in its collapse is extremely unlikely.

 

The people running it were marketing geniuses.

 

After all, they managed to sell a product which they got to keep!

 

 

On 12/5/2021 at 5:15 AM, MatrixMan said:

 

Before that the newspapers started to come online along with MSM tv stations, through the 90's to the mid 2000s had a good run, but as we moved into the age of social media platforms and personal video streaming another shift came, and the influencers were people that came from anywhere, even some people who never acted, never put out a song, even people with no talent at all became huge stars online, and some of whom subsequently became bigger influencers than the biggest Hollywood stars of today.

 

 

Maybe bigger than the talentless Satanic hacks who pose as stars today. No argument there.

 

But bigger than Gable, Crawford, Harlow?

 

No.

 

On 12/5/2021 at 5:15 AM, MatrixMan said:

 

This created a problem for the puppeteers owners) of Hollywood and the MSM, newspapers who until recently had centralised control of these industries.  T

 

Centralized control?

 

No. It’s all independent now. Look at the producers of Oscar winners since 1948 (when the Supreme Court ruled Paramount couldn’t own studios any longer).

 

But if you mean exerted external influence then yes.

 

 

On 12/5/2021 at 5:15 AM, MatrixMan said:

As hard to believe as it is, it gets worse, as now Hollywood is making a comeback on the fairly new online entertainment streaming industry.  

 

I’m not so sure about that.

 

In my opinion it’s dead.

 

 

On 12/5/2021 at 5:15 AM, MatrixMan said:

Hollywood is really old school influencers, who have lost a lot of ground to online stars.

 

I view it as an industry infested by wokeness that has driven away a lot of its fans.

 

Who are these old school influencers?

 

Warner?

 

Mayer?

 

Zukor?

 

Sarnoff?

 

On 12/5/2021 at 5:15 AM, MatrixMan said:

And pitch that against a young women having to take out a giant student loan to better herself,

 

Not really addressing your point.

 

Under the old studio system, a girl didn’t need to be able to act. She just had to look good on film. If she had that then the studio would develop the talent. Provide lessons on how to act, how to walk, how to talk, how to fence, how to dance etc. etc. Everything.

 

They would build the star.

 

Now girls have to invest all that money themselves.

 

It’s easier to go into modelling where you just need to able to walk in a straight line.

 

On 12/5/2021 at 5:15 AM, MatrixMan said:

So what is the future of Hollywood?

 

None.

 

On 12/5/2021 at 5:15 AM, MatrixMan said:

You might be wealthy, but you want more, it's human propensity to go further, to taste more, to prove to yourself, it becomes a game as you gain wealth, you can take more gambles as you can afford to lose, it's like a drug, call it ambition, its desire to be centre of attention to be very important, this is like a drug that plays on powerful people's minds.  They cannot stop, because there is nothing they found more fun, more alluring.

 

It is because they have lost sight of what fulfills.

 

It is not the material.

 

But as long as you think that you are going to need more and more.

 

There will always be a vacuum.