Oscars 2016: It's time for Hollywood to stop defining great drama as white men battling adversity

[JustAnotherGen]

3. Fair point here however

The movie and TV industries won't solve their main problem — how to capture the eyes of young audiences — by hewing to hallmarks of excellence set by previous generations. Millennials and post-millennials aren't just big franchise fans, they are also the most racially diverse and socially tolerant generations in history. As the crossover audiences for "Straight Outta Compton" and "The Hunger Games" series proved, they don't "need" their heroes to be white and don't expect them to be male or straight or anything but interesting.

Google - Asia/China influence on films. Go back about 3 years and come forward.


All of that Marvel and blow up movie nonsense? That appeals to Asia.
Another piece - their move toward 'whiteness' being appealing.

So you have billons of people abroad demanding Hollywood show them what they WANT to believe about America -

Instead of Hollywood (I'm talking to you Harvey Weinstein) saying -

I'm going to shove out 5 to 10 movies a years that are the REAL America, American stories - with a great cross section of Americans in them.

There is a hesitancy to disgust (I don't know if that's the right word) or turn off people who are just going to steal what you've made and sell it illegally anyways.

There is a much bigger shift in thinking and this is why I can be a bit of a harpie on the copyright/intellectual property thing. Give it protection abroad and keep doing things as you are or -

Understand you are losing money so make them steal something they don't like.