one of the reasons to get into cinema (or the history of any art form) is to marvel at the physical lengths people used to go to to realize a vision. I think this will get harder and harder to understand in an AI “art-on-demand” culture. It won’t be intuitive how they did this
I feel like Americans always think in excess. The tension of the World Cup comes from the fact that it is every four years and cycles through generations of players. It’s something to wait for and build up to.