In the modern age of entertainment, a kingpin in the industry has been streaming. Since Netflix hit the scene, it’s played to snowball effect, growing and growing as the years go on. Since 2020 alone, many streaming services have been popping up for film and television distributors, such as Paramount+, Disney+, and Max.
In the changing world of filmmaking, especially with specific stipulations being implemented by the streaming providers, other directors, standing up for the integrity of the job and the art, have not stepped down from openly jabbing and criticizing streaming. The most noteworthy example is director Nanni Moretti’s A Brighter Tomorrow.
Making its debut at the Cannes Film Festival, Deadline reported that the director made it clear that he wasn’t just jabbing at Netflix but streaming as a whole, and he wasn’t pulling his punches, either. “There’s something that displeases me: Several directors and screenwriters just give way to the platforms, they bow to the platforms,” he said, and his quote is more than backed up by the film itself. It’s a meta-commentary on movie making in the days of streaming, following a struggling director trying to get his passion project off the ground. There’s a part in the film where the stand-in for Moretti himself goes back and forth with a Netflix executive. The exec wants him to establish his story in just two minutes, while the director wants to be able to take his time to set it up, with it either being two minutes or 15 minutes.
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