Hollywood is in Extremistan. Now much makes sense that was not clear. It may not be that they cannot tell if they know talent or not, or what the audience wants or not. Perhaps it is that the standards of stardom in Hollywood are that the only real success are the outlier great successes. And perhaps Hollywood is more self-aware that it lives in Extremistan than Wall Street.
Here's the old observation:
I have started to become aware of how it is that creatives talk about their work understanding that there is no objective standard for it. In contrast, when you are 'a techie' the aims of performance are clear, and what you know in every situation is that when you are presented with a piece of code or a system that it must submit to both real time and forensic examination. At the end of the day, a good system is good in the same way to everyone who can understand it and fulfills the same needs everywhere it can be appreciated. But there is no such ubiquity of appreciation in music or film. And it is because of this that I have just begun to appreciate the ways in which the Hollywood types talk about each other.
It appears to me that for the Hollywood creative, the only constant is dedication to craft and reconciliation with self. So conversations about relationships employ references to the work in a veiled way. The overt narrative is about workmanship and relationships between working people, but only the subtext is about the work itself.
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