Why doesn't Hollywood make great movies anymore?
Noah Hawley says: "It's a place where people are always running to where lightning just struck."
This is why Hollywood feels so stuck: it's a copycat culture where people look at what's already working instead of taking the necessary risks to actually make something original.
"One of the things I enjoyed most about the movie Everything, Everywhere All at Once was how mad it made people in Hollywood. Because there were no takeaways. There was nothing you could take from that movie where you were like 'oh, if we just copied this we'd have the next biggest Oscar-winning movie.' It was such a unicorn. It ran the table, and people didn't know how to repeat it."
The alternative is to take risks. To make bold bets. To pursue originality instead of formula. To remember that lightning rarely strikes in the same place twice.
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