sometimes sex appeal raises your social status and sometimes it lowers it it's an interesting problem and i would like your thoughts 🧵 — Divya Venn (@divya_venn)

— Blair (@__seab)

— Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_)

I get the (entertaining) dunking, but people just now learning about this are misunderstanding why some are so fiercely defending it. It's not just Disney or Star Wars brand devotion. — Kyle Tague (@KyleTague)

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart)

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Between the Iheartradio fake podcast listeners story, Facebook getting publications to pivot to video with fake data, and now this story about WB HBO max cooking the books… kinda feels like our entire attention economy is built like a ponzi scheme and all this shit is made up— Jacqueline (DJ Horse Jeans) (@Horse_Jeans) September 28, 2022

a close friend of mine works in the music industry, so I have takes on music streaming 🧵Spotify has never turned a profit in any year of its existence, this means Spotify's shareholders are already subsidizing artists.streaming services saved the industry from literal /1 https://t.co/CaSYct4TS6— Ariele 🌐🏗️ (@weatherdai) March 10, 2024

So apparently childish Gambino didn't pay the woman who's on the cover of Awaken my love her residuals. Lawyers of Donald Glover won't talk to her etc. She was promised residuals and the only person got paid was the white woman who created the headpiece. pic.twitter.com/pDmTrInUR9— Nat (@chatterboxnat) December 25, 2023

The children yearn for auteur filmmaking https://t.co/oD33qLykun pic.twitter.com/srW4Va1yxN— Jonathan (@jonathanmb32) October 22, 2023

Martin Scorsese on Barbenheimer: “I do think that the combination of Oppenheimer and Barbie was something special. It seemed to be, I hate that word, but the perfect storm. It came about at the right time. And the most important thing is that people went to watch these in a…

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I do not understand how Hollywood apparently learned nothing (nothing!) from the huge vast insane popularity of Knives Out, a solid film that would have just been a normal film twenty years ago https://t.co/NFc6ciJvOo— Amber Sparks (@ambernoelle) June 19, 2023

So many of Hollywood’s problems would be solved by simply making new and interesting $20-$40M thrillers for adults— Russell (@RussellFalcon) June 18, 2023

“nothing about michael keaton in the flash recalls the character or the world of the burton movies except for the casting. it’s like a reverse kuleshov effect: the audience has a reaction, so the movie must have made a choice. surreal, empty filmmaking”

“Since Spiderverse came out, lots of artists have been posting behind-the scenes tweets sharing their contributions to the beautiful film. So I'm starting a thread collecting them in one place:”

“I knew there was some reason why it was getting harder to hear the dialogue on TV, but hadn’t seen it explained so clearly before. https://t.co/qhzeVadp9Z”

Streaming platforms are actively making themselves worse because they have hit the max amount of customers they'll get and their shareholders want infinite growth which isn't possible so in the short term they are gutting themselves to save money by removing shows to avoid— Fletcher (@marshonstupi) May 24, 2023

Gotta love the folks flexing moral superiority in the quotes. 🤣😭 The whole point of the show is that these damaged, “bad” people possess “good” qualities, and the show helps you understand what would make someone so vile. Your feelings shouldn’t be binary, one way or the other.— Johnny Sobczak (@JohnnySobczak) May 15, 2023

I'm obsessed with how Hader is crafting this season of BARRY with a total focus on narrative economy, and instead of indulgently padding each episode to 50+ minutes, finds the fewest amount of scenes possible to tell the most amount of story and character. it's incredible.— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) May 8, 2023

I hate how in the new trend of "oners," they often call attention(!) to themselves, and you instantly know the action will follow a video-gamey and predetermined path. they're not thrillingly invisible or feats of great filmmaking. They just kind of ...happen, but in an empty way— Brendan Hodges (@metaplexmovies) April 28, 2023

On a diff note, there's a reason why Steven Yeun grew up evangelical, John Cho's dad was a pastor, & I was in a worship band w/Lee Isaac Chung in college. It's v hard to understand Korean imm & Korean Americans w/o (Protestant) Christianity. Some context for #BEEFNetflix viewers: https://t.co/4VEQZqEs88— Jane Hong (@janehongphd) April 12, 2023

Could never hope to distill the breadth of his legacy in tweets, but here's some Sakamoto, since we're thinking of him today ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/VF7jeR78WP— NTS Radio (@NTSlive) April 3, 2023

1. advance the plot; 2. deepen a character; 3. exemplify the genre (comedy- get a laugh; horror- have a scare, etc.); 4. build the world. So a scene between people, existing as people, int he world they live in, INSIDE your story, is legit even if there's not a plot point. BUT--— Seth Sherwood (@SethMSherwood) February 4, 2023