The surprise success of this surreal duo proves cinema remains a powerful cultural force and suggests audiences want more than franchises

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The studio system broke down in the late 2000s, between China becoming a market and the massive, MASSIVE flood of money from lotr, HP, marvel and other similar copypasta franchishes the pressure for sequels and the like exploded, and independent directors lost a lot of their room to experiment.

    Streaming is the second half, everybody wants something with a long tail, ie you can recognize it from the Netflix catalog, which pushes harder for sequels and franchises