tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post7136270577525398876..comments2024-03-14T04:07:39.792-07:00Comments on Earl Pomerantz: Just Thinking...: "Looking For Trouble"Earl Pomerantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963705121297866334noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-36674229357399350592016-02-15T11:00:01.499-08:002016-02-15T11:00:01.499-08:00Here's the thing. You can only buy tickets to ...Here's the thing. You can only buy tickets to things that have gotten made. Which comes first, the ticket-buyer or the greenlighter? Modern greenlighters prefer to greenlight things that have been successful in the past - so we get a lot of stuff that's formulaic. They don't take risks.<br /><br />There's a reason so much talent is fleeing to venues like Netflix, Amazon, et al. and why network ratings continue to drop. William Goldman also talked about the increasing dearth of movies for grown-ups. While he was writing that book, Alan Alda's THE FOUR SEASONS, indubitably aimed at grown-ups, was released and became a big success. The way the Hollywood moguls explained that to Goldman? "It's a non-recurring phenomenon."<br /><br />George Bernard Shaw observed that "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself." My sense is that you're a reasonable man. There's value in that. But there's also great value in being unreasonable enough to demand change.<br /><br />wgWendy M. Grossmanhttp://www.pelicancrossing.netnoreply@blogger.com