Borrowed gods

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Who is the standard of a vibrant eventful life for us? Where do we see them, what do we dream about? The questions are not simple and do not have an unambiguous answer for everyone. But if you try to somehow generalize and answer honestly, then there is such a common yardstick and we understand it kind of as frivolity, but … of all the arts, Hollywood is the most important for us, and movie stars will be the benchmarks.

No, I understand that this is not about you, dear reader. But we live among people, and whether we like it or not, the opinion of the majority must be taken into account. Galkin stuck in his teeth with a booth on any channel is not close to being in our table of ranks, even with Brad Peet.

We all watch mainly American-made films. Strange, but they are in no hurry to give filming to China or India, where films are produced no less. Maybe it's not about commerce. Let's figure it out.

Who are the stars? Hollywood and others. Actors, directors, singers, musicians, show men. The usual answer to this question is talented and beautiful people. And they listen to their opinion. They are, as marketers say, influencers. Think about it, how many talented and beautiful in the world? But these, which is important, are promoted through the media. This is also a well-known and banal fact. They are promoted not for the sake of art, but in order for their gesheft, when necessary, to convey values to their audience. They are valuable as opinion leaders in the first place.

You don't need many stars, but there are a lot of talented people, especially those with ambitions. Among them, the choice is very wide - absolutely any conceivable, there will definitely be a talented one. And the main thing is talent? We need controllability, predictability of a star. Therefore, at first they choose the submissive, dependent, weak-willed, dependent, etc. This is necessary to solve their task of instilling in people the ideas and values that manipulators need. And only then look at the talent. Weak and weak-willed people rarely have a bright talent, so the industry is connected to them. That is, a system for stamping stars. Sometimes, someone more or less original makes their way to the top of the stage, but not for long. Showbiz stars are a product of the industry. A kind of factory, where from what was (so as not to put it more strongly) they collect candy in a beautiful package. Look, an actor in one frame is no more than 6 seconds - this is not a theater where you have to play from beginning to end. For singers, notes are glued. And the most unpleasant film can unexpectedly receive the approval of countless film festival juries and time at the box office. So, there is no more art and talent here than in the bust of Lenin in the red corner of the village council.

The stars live beautifully from their gesheft. And if not for talent, then why would they be paid so much, you ask. Let's see, I’ll answer what happens when the money runs out. The luxurious life that an opinion leader is obliged to lead ends, and the most interesting begins.

Angelina Jolie has to cut off her breasts, the Wachowskys have to change their sex, and there is no meanness to which the "superstar" would not have descended in order to prolong the beautiful and ostentatious lifestyle of people who do not know the true value of money. Oh, did you think they do it for free? Yes Yes. Watch the box office of the latest Wachowski films. They invested personal. And they probably took loans. I had to give it to my own … Here's a sad story.

Pay attention, there is nothing successful businessmen or hereditary moneybags engaged in ostentatious perversions, and even more, just behaving arrogantly. But such "fried facts", oh, as the scribblers love. They have no ostentatious consumption. If, of course, you look at the facts, and not at the movies.

So maybe make a logical conclusion? Stars are paid for propaganda. Does anyone seriously think that the voiceless singer Gaga, at the end of a concert in Moscow, herself, without the producer's knowledge, on her own initiative, declared that Russians did not have enough love for homosexuals?

Having eyes, let him see, American show business is a propaganda machine, and nothing more. Commercially successful, yes. Beautiful, like an attraction in a children's park - yes. With the show of a beautiful, but fictional life, where a petty clerk supposedly lives in a two-story mansion, and inside any bank there are mountains of cash - yes. Brainwash - also yes.

Today people have already started talking about stupefying cartoons, corrupting "comedies", demeaning action films, eternally backward and evil Russians on screens, and so on. The methods of influencing the psyche are being analyzed, attempts are made to systematize these slops. But this is not enough. All this supposedly innocence is covered by commercial necessity. Otherwise, they say, Hollywood will go broke. Wake up! In our information-rich age, finding a good kind fairy tale is as easy as shelling pears. It is even easier to promote it in the media. Good is now sorely lacking. What we are being served is a deliberate choice. And the choice is not short-term, as we are convinced, but long-term, with a long-range scope.

Note that this choice costs nothing in terms of money. People pay for it themselves. And who among the readers would like to have a magic wand for manipulating not one, but a huge mass of people? Moreover, so that it does not cost anything.

Not bad in my opinion. Tolkien's ring of omnipotence rests on the sidelines.

And let the service personnel take the small profit that the magic wand bears. What is the profit of one studio (tens of millions of dollars per year) compared to the ability to control the desire of billions of people on the planet?

In the wrong place in our head Hollywood right now. Not on that one.

A grandiose romantic drama with as many as 13 Oscars about the Titanic - everyone was watching. After her, who knows that the first class passengers escaped every one, and the third class died? After this film, who will be interested in a serious study showing that the Titanic was deliberately flooded in order to get insurance money?

Why watch how many million tons of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the greed of transnational corporations, and not an individual Malkovich, when the movie "Deep Sea Horizon" shows that 11 Americans died? This is a tragedy, I do not argue at all. But the small fry, the hero of the actor Malkovich, is responsible for it. And for the ruined fauna - no one. And, which is typical, no one will know about the fauna.

If for the sake of an hour and a half of tickling your nerves in a motionless state in a chair you are ready to sacrifice your Picture of the World, then I am not!

Hollywood and the media don't just dull us - they drive us. Strictly in one direction. And there is an opinion that it is not a pleasant walk in a quiet park. Maybe we should already take a closer look where they are taking us? We have only one life, and our children and grandchildren will already live without an alternative.

What can you do? What can I do?

Knowledge is our strength. If you understand, manipulations don't work. See, understand. Not superficially - see deeply. Tell about it. But not on the Internet, where anyone's opinion is worthless, but to close people. To those who are important to you, dear, whom you love. They will listen to you, believe me.

Yes, the alternative is not rich. And as long as we agree to drink the flushing liquid, it will not appear. In the hope of an alternative, I send you greetings from our past. For children, this is the best alternative for today:

Soyuzmultfilm.

Master Zhongda, Picture of the world