Monday, January 14, 2013

Is Hollywood Doomed?

Mitt Romney and the GOP got a big surprise during the last elections.  All their polls indicated that at this moment a republican would be getting ready to move in to the White house.   Their polls were not wrong, they were just not polling the right people.  It is true, the majority of whites in the US did vote for Mr. Romney, it is just that there is no longer enough of a majority of whites in the US that you can ignore everyone else.



I get the feeling that at some point Hollywood is going to have a similar surprise.  At some point somewhere people are going to start making movies that are going to sell in the US more than Hollywood movies.  I think that at some point minorities, when given the 'real' choice, are going to stop going to Hollywood movies are are going to start wanting to see things were they are represented as something more than token, exotic or stereotyped.

At some point people I think are going to look at images like this one and are going to start wondering why people who look like them are not either on stage, or sitting at the tables.  I don't think that it will be a conscious act but slowly they are just going to stop watching
They are going to start looking for alternatives, and in our age of digital media, I am thinking they are going to find them.  Unfortunately I don't think Hollywood will find the solution.  It looks to me like they are going in the wrong direction.  But some young entrepreneur, my guess an immigrant is going to figure out a way to get movies with a better representation of the real world (race, age, gender, weight, religion and so on), they are going to market them to broad audiences and they are going to make bucket loads of money.

Then again perhaps they already have:
Everyday, some 14 million Indian people queue for a movie, with more than 4 billion movie tickets sold annually, compared to 3 billion for Hollywood movies worldwide.

It is not that there is a shortage of actresses that don't look like this:
Asian Actresses
Black Actresses
Indian Actresses
Hispanic Actresses
Native American Actresses
Older Actresses

Arabian Actresses
Full bodied Actresses




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