Hollywood Can’t Survive Without Animation. So Why No Respect?
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Hollywood Can’t Survive Without Animation. So Why No Respect?
Posted by thetrilogy911
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Seems like Hollywood has completely abandoned comedy. What the world needs now is….a really funny comedy. That’s a true challenge.
You can have respect or money. Hard to have both. If studios want respect, then they need to stop creating sequels. Every additional installment cheapens the product. Doesn’t matter if it’s live action or animation. Fast and the furious would probably have a cult following if just stopped after the first movie but when you make 4, 5, 6+ installments of something, the thing that makes your movie special erodes and animation especially lately has been hit by the sequel bug.
Because Hollywood is an insular ring and animation studios aren’t privy to that ring? It’s pretty obvious that Hollywood is built on nepotism and face-to-face interactions. Hard to do that when your entire film process is done in booths and basements. The Academy also keeps showing time and again that they’re horribly out of touch so mass media and critics (i.e. Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly etc, not like “Dan’s Movie Reviews” on YouTube or whatever) often just follow suit.
It 100% can survive without animation.
I think Morris is on the right track. The problem is animation is basically a parallel system. It doesn’t have all the same on-set people there to make the pictures. It makes the movies almost despite them.
So the people making those live action films have no reason to promote (vote for) animation.
It’s just the same thing that kept the original Tron out of nominations for special effects. It didn’t employ the model makers and matte painters of the time (well, not many matte painters), it was other people tapping at keyboards.
I would love for Hollywood to give animation its due. Into the Spider-Verse should have been nominated for best picture. Not win, but there are 8 nominees. It was one of the best 8 pictures of the year. Great writing, great art, fantastic character development. Jefferson Davis (Miles’ father) is developed better than a lot of characters in other movies. And Aunt May? Dock Ock? Also it’s really funny too! Once of the best scripts of the year.
Except for actors, directors, writers, producers, editors and a few other positions, how many industry professionals work on both live-action and animation?
It’s like asking why some people in Hollywood don’t respect video game developers more. It’s because they mostly don’t interact with one another.
I suspect that Hollywood crews resent animation and its multiyear approach to production. Animators get to make the equivalent of 3 films (or more) to make the best film possible. They have so much more time and resources to “get it exactly right” than most live-action filmmakers have, and it’s hard not to be a little bitter about that (e.g., I had 120 days to shoot a film and they had 5 years).
Jealous.
movie awards are the movie industry awards to themselves. Animation is a craftsmanship, teams working together, refinement of skills. Animation takes more dedication then they can understand, it’s easier to award it to someone easy to cheer for.