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Hackman Capital became the largest independent studio landlord in the world during the streaming boom.

Now three of their major properties have fallen into distress:

Radford Studio Center
Sony Pictures Animation Campus
Kaufman Astoria Studios

I took a look at what happened.

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Ford was no longer making Westerns about building America.

He was making a Western about remembering America.

Through frontier towns, cavalry outposts, settlers and outlaws, Ford created his own American mythology and helped establish the visual language through which the country remembers its past.

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John Ford didn't simply make Westerns.

He helped create the visual mythology of America.

Across more than 130 films and a career spanning 50 years, Ford repeatedly returned to the same question: How does civilization emerge from chaos, and what does it cost to preserve it?

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Ransom Stoddard becomes a respected senator because everyone believes he killed Liberty Valance.

He didn't.

When the truth finally emerges, it is deliberately buried.

The legend has become more useful than the truth.

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He also remained intensely in character throughout production, isolating himself between takes and immersing himself in the mindset of a man consumed by power and control.

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There Will Be Blood

(2007, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)

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Day-Lewis prepared for the role by studying old recordings of oilmen and businessmen from the early 20th century, especially the distinctive speech and mannerisms of filmmaker John Huston.

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That perspective makes the film all the more disturbing, as evil becomes far more difficult to comprehend when those responsible believe their actions are justified.

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Nuremberg

(2025, dir. James Vanderbilt)

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Perhaps the most notorious villains in history, the story recognizes that Hermann Göring and the rest of the Nazi regime committed their atrocities with human intention, believing they were acting in the interests of their country and people.