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Ah… I have given my thanks so now it’s that time of the year when I get to complain about what’s wrong — and what hasn’t yet been fixed. I have done this before (several times), but this is that post on where we are right now. Like always, I suggest you don’t forget that lists like these only make the foolish despair. After all, we can build it better together. Let’s take this post as an action list. All are opportunities to truly ToDo. It does not need to be this way.
- The film business lives in Bizarro World, thinking we do something for the love of it, but in fact creating something far far far away from what we actually love — and thus making it so much harder to do what we love in the process. We have turned our strengths into our weaknesses. The worst of course is we now take it for granted that this is how it is and this is what the film biz needs be (if you are not fully following me here, I suggest you click on the link above). It’s not and it doesn’t but I don’t hear a whole lot of folks saying we need a complete systems reboot of the whole film ecosystem (see #2).
- It’s not enough to just think outside the box. The box is a trap and a false representation of a reality. We have to break the box, probably smash it to bits and then
