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Ben L.'s avatar

Ford wasn't a canary as he served no purpose as a warning. He was deliberately gassed.

PapayaSF's avatar

A lot of the problems in the big-money creative professions seem to come from ignoring audiences and instead trying to impress peers by being “progressive” and “pushing boundaries.” Architects do this, too: creating buildings that win architecture awards but which look ugly to most people and are rarely optimum for tenants. Another version of the same problem happens in academia.

DAVID HANLON's avatar

Well written article.

Mike Lynch's avatar

With the advent of AI and the rise of the internet and the craze for short YouTube videos Hollywood is dead. It cannot complete with the future of self authorship and publication. Film is merely a snapshot in the long timeline of human story telling.

B. E. Gordon's avatar

And from what I understand, Ford himself approved of Han Solo’s stupid death. He’s one of them.

DemsAreTrash's avatar

He willingly went along with it.

John A Douglas's avatar

It really is insufferable what this guy has become. He used to be a man's man, the ideal of masculinity without being an Arnold-like parody. But now he's just an angry, bitter old man yelling at clouds who hates his own roles and it shows.

twb's avatar
Aug 19Edited

The point was never to simply empower female heroes, we already had some. The goal was to demolish masculine male heroes. They succeeded spectacularly.

Crispin's avatar

As we sit waiting to see who the new Bond will be 😕

RHampton's avatar

Don't act like Ford didn't have a role in the undoing. He had to willingly participate in this humiliation. I won't ever watch another Harrison Ford movie at the box office even if he finds the Fountain of Youth.

Gregory DeVore's avatar

This is why I look to the indy world. Everything cultural has been corrupted by woke idiocy. I am looking forward to based indy films created by A.I. to further erode trad media's monopoly. Has anybody tried creating full cast audio dramas using based indy fiction? I bet A.I. could pull that off.

TJ's avatar

I’m looking forward to that day too. Have you seen “The Chronicles of Bone” by Kavan the Kid on YouTube? Make sure you watch the prequels before you watch chapter one or you won’t know what’s going on. It’s amazing what can be done with AI these days. I can’t wait to see where we’ll be in 10 years.

Gregory DeVore's avatar

Oh so Amazing. The Chronicle of bone is amazing. Hollywood is so done!

Gregory DeVore's avatar

I will check it out.