I'm always up for reading whatever @LisaDeP is writing, even if Gen X is a fake generation huffing the fumes of punk DIY all the way to an angry and early grave.
On this note, the reason I’ll never really like “conservative first” content or art slop is bc I came from someone and was myself someone who grew up “craft first” w politics as the undercurrent. While most of these ppl were doing their assigned social studies classes or reading the Federalist Papers for the 800th time, and have never taken a visual arts class in their life, my Dad forced himself to perfect the craft of writing in a high school for maladjusted students who got thrown out of prep school and then went to the best film school in the world. And I spent my formative years in art school, working at an art house video store, and then also went to the best film school in the world. That actually is worth something.
The problem w the right is there’s a lot of people in charge of $ and media who haven’t spent a min working on an artistic craft and CANNOT tell good from bad at even the most basic level.
The “Intro to Lighting” class for example would be really beneficial to every RW movie I’ve ever seen.
Competing w the best films students alive (and winning) and working for a premiere photographer for ten years and building my own pro book was fairly useful when it came time to tell a political story that didn’t look like absolute trash. You can tell a political story that is visually unique and beautiful it’s not illegal.
Anyway this is why my Dad deserves all the praise he gets bc he’s not just “one of the conservatives in Hollywood” but because he’s an artist and the best writer alive and a great *distinctive* director.
Guys on here will literally wake up and be like huh I think we should make movies that are good about US history but I’m going to dismiss the best movies made about US history bc it’s been a while and I want it to sort of be like Game of Thrones bc I have the film background of a 12 yr old.
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