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Masters of the Universe is a big giant cinematic middle finger to irony poisoning and a nostalgic love letter to 80s whimsy and radical sincerity.
★ ★ ★ ½
"Art director making $300 a day is a livable wage."
One thing people don't understand about the film business is it's feast or famine. You may not work for weeks or months so that money has to be saved and amortized.
Then the Obsession crew lives in LA, so they're paying the highest rents, highest gas, highest utilities, highest insurance (to be fair they keep voting for it, but that's another story).
A 14 hour day doesn't account for 1 hour of traffic each way. Indies can routinely go 12-18 hours.
Art department is an especially brutal crew. They are the first to get on set, the last to leave. No set, no shoot.
Then crew heads don't really get paid for their time. Reading the script? Free. Thinking about it? Free. Talking with the director? Free. Creative discussion, creative obsessing, detail planning on weekends. Free free free. The time on the clock is not the time on the job.
$300 a day on an 18 hour day, before gas or any other expenses, is $16 an hour. The off the clock work is double that. So $8 an hour. Now save that to survive the next actor/writer strike.
Is it a livable wage? Sure. In Iowa if you're a mid level stripper. Not a film crew in LA.
My favorite part of my Amazing Digital Circus sceening was spending 20 minutes thinking this is a very nice evolution of the youtube economy and my theater was well behaved, and then the only people who cosplayed up walked in late and one immediately started filming the screen.
I'm going to the Digital Circus movie in a few hours less as someone that's a fan and more as someone who wants to witness the butterfly effect of buying a copy of Klay World: Off the Table, 21 years ago.
#ToyStory5 is toys vs. tech. Would love a “Turn off your cell phones” PSA from Woody, Buzz and Jessie before the film starts. And how about a conversation midway through the movie in which the gang recommends people look up from their screens, in a “breaking the 4th wall” style?!