I.e. when you're making anything mainstream like a Marvel movie this is part of your thought process "I want it to have my personal stamp, I want it to seem artistic and get good reviews from critics, but I don't want it to be TOO weird that Aunt Joan from Peoria gets confused"
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(I get the feeling a lot of these guys seriously dream of a society where the arts are being actively oppressed, where the big cinema has been shut down and there just are no blockbusters and the only movies that exist are "underground passion projects")
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Anyway people who think that editing yourself and accepting notes and "dumbing shit down" is what ruins art need to listen to "Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George again and think about it (Is Sondheim classy enough for you all or what)
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Or, like, every single one of you motherfuckers saw Inside Llewyn Davis and got a huge boner for how
#relatable Oscar Isaac was in that movie right Did you get that the whole Greek tragedy of this character is his misery is *inevitable*, like actually mathematically assuredShow this thread -
"I refuse to change myself to make other people like me, it's beneath me" and "I am unhappy and resentful whenever other people don't like me" Well congrats, prepare to be unhappy and resentful your entire fucking life, for reasons you just clearly stated
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Other people are human beings with their own preferences they are entitled to So either play the music they want to hear if you actually want to make them happy Or play the music you want to hear and make yourself happy and ignore them
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But this toxic loop of chasing other people's approval *and pushing that approval away* - what Hannah Gadsby called "definitionally insane, to despise the one thing you desire most" - is a guarantee of failure Get the fuck over yourself
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