People have a lot of complaints about modern movies. Some people lament the lack of true action stars like we had in the past. Some say it can be too vulgar and there's too much sex, though the numbers suggest the opposite is true for the latter. However, I think we can all agree with Clint Eastwood with one thing: Hollywood is too obsessed with IP.
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Studios and execs fixate heavily on peddling remakes of older films. Or they sap the creativity and intrigue of any franchise dry. Why? It's a mixture of laziness and greed alike; selling people on original ideas can be hard. A smash hit film like Sinners is difficult to come by, in funding and/or approval. Consequently, in a society poisoned by irony and a system that favors capital over creativity, this is where we are. Frankly, Clint Eastwood is sick of it at this point.
Clint Eastwood Trashes Hollywood Ecosystem of Remakes and
Recently, Eastwood spoke with Austrian publication Kurier (captured by Variety and Reuters). There, the 95 year old actor and director reveals he's in preproduction for his next film and that he has no plans of hanging it up. "There's no reason why a man can't get better with age," he says. "And I have much more experience today. Sure, there are directors who lose their touch at a certain age, but I'm not one of them."
Additionally, Eastwood wishes he could go back to the Hollywood of old, where original ideas were still aplenty and got funding. "I long for the good old days when screenwriters wrote movies like 'Casablanca' in small bungalows on the studio lot. When everyone had a new idea," he shrugs. "We live in an era of remakes and franchises. I've shot sequels three times, but I haven't been interested in that for a long while. My philosophy is: do something new or stay at home."
