film and cinema
What happened to movies?: Medium evolutionists
The standing ovation that taught nothing The night Parasite won Best Picture, the Dolby Theatre applauded a Korean-language film with no stars, no franchise, no source IP, made for $11 million.... What happened to movies?: Cultural declinists
The ceiling at two in the morning The first time a movie wrecked me — genuinely wrecked me, left me staring at the ceiling rearranging what I thought I understood — it was Chinatown.... What happened to movies?: The Story
The lights go down For a few seconds the theater is just breathing — strangers settling into the dark together, the screen not yet lit. That silence used to be one of the most democratic spaces in American culture. Then the projector catches and you are somewhere else.... “I haven’t been to the ballet” – a confession that could cost you $20 million?
Photo below - snubbed actor Timothee Chalamet reacts to rumors that he has been dropped from the upcoming space opera "Dune 3", and the whole film is being re-shot as a ballet . . . Musical tastes are personal, so keep them to yourself Timothee Chalamet!... Left Media Bias bigger than i realized. No matter how you measure (print media, online, page views, paid subscribers, followers, etc) US media leans heavily left, to an extent that surprised me. Most ways I tried back-of-the napkin math have right + right-leaning news sources being below 10%… and even the most generous assessments that include lost of neutral/other outlets still have left + left-leaning above 50% (meaning 5:1 liberal to conservative is the lowest estimate i could find).
Context
The US is pretty evenly split in terms of the two major parties:
> 45% of U.S. adults Republican-ish, 44% Democrat-ish Gallup 2022Some sources
- Allsides Here’s Allsides review
their media bias on Allsides.com here’s the site’s own assessment of its own bias - Googling the top 25 most-subscribed news channels in the United States, and
- Even the more left leaning LLMS can’t help but point out this as a fact of modern media.
Takeaways
First, this gives me empathy for Republicans. Many American conservatives feel like the underdog, regardless of how much power or influence they yield, because in a very real way, they’re not represented in a substantial part of the public narrative making machine—the media—proportionally. The perception of bias is true despite their being popular conservative outlets with sizable audiences, and as a result the left has influence on public opinion.Impact on Public Trust (but also how come Republicans aren’t better at getting media subscribers?)
Second, how come Republicans, who are stereotypically thought of us as having more business acumen or money or something, are getting so handily beaten in the media?
Third, I try not to get involved in politics because I’m scared of loosing connection or turning people off of the value of relatefulness because of my takes, even if they’re nuanced. We’re very good at otherizing people and forgetting to look at nuances. I’m certain I lack nuance. I don’t want a difference of political opinion to get in the way of our connecting. I started writing up this for the TTT email (which I ended up deciding not to send) but I realized others are deeply esconced in politics and way smarter and more educated in the field than I, so I decided to not go there. But here on uptrusting.com I think it’s a cool opporutnity to test; could also be a nice road to empathy, or self-empathy, depending on our identifications.
Maybe your feed shows you something different: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DU1QY5Nkf0b/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== Why do I envision Ed Harris as Christof, the director in the Truman show, leaning forward to see how moist the corner of our eyes get as... How much are you Uptrusting? Downtrusting? I mean pressing the green and red arrows on peoples posts and comments.
Just curious how people are using this feature, as you can't directly see who has Up and Down trusted a post.
Currently, my threshold is reasonable high. I hit UpTrust if something is well thought out/I like the thought process behind it, and/or if it presents something novel that I like/agree with/find plausible.
That means something like 1 in 10 things I read, I hit the green button. Maybe? That's very approximate, it's hard to gauge without measuring it.
And I've been using the site regularly for a couple of months, and I don't remember having downtrusted a single post/comment.
BTW, this is very much not advocacy! I've no idea if this is how I should be operating, or it would be better (for any of numerous versions of "better") for me to be doing something differently.This is a response to "Imagine a movie with no words". I have often gone to the theater in an ethnic community and watched a movie without understanding the words.... Is the movie theater experience dead? As someone who grew up going to movies multiple times a week - I'm starting to worry that the end is nigh. I'm aware many have said movies are dead at different times over the past 30 years - and they've all been wrong... but even though I pay a monthly fee for a movie pass that allows me to see multiple movies a week - I find myself unwilling to leave the house.
Part of this is the amount of ads before the film - part is the the number of people who think the movie theater is their living room and proceed to talk through the film - part is the amount of people who are on their phones while the film is going...
As someone who loves movies, who has made movies and TV all of my adult life - I'm just wondering if the communal experience of sitting together and laughing, crying, screaming and enjoying a great film is something that is quickly becoming a thing of the past.
I wonder....
Do you still go to the movies? Do you enjoy it?
If not...
Why not?... put on subtitles so you can understand everything... go back and rewatch the part you missed... Not have to deal with people talking through the film like it's their living room - no kids on their phones through the whole show.... It's true... sad but true....