Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1298632" data-attributes="member: 812">Keep in mind that these people DO go out of work quite regularly -- entire corporations have been known to simply collapse -- such as Orion, Cannon, and MGM all did at one point or another. Big companies, employing hundreds if not thousands of people.Brought down because somebody thought some film or other was a good idea.Cutthroat Island probably looked like a good idea to the marketing flacks.I agree that Hollywood is meritocratic -- for the most part, crappy films get smacked. But it's also famous for providing talentless nobodies with healthy livings -- and not all of those are the actors.If demographic-based marketing worked (based on gender or any other quality) with significant accuracy, studios would only create films that the marketing showed would be successful. Indeed, studios DO only make films that their marketing says will be successful. And they keep on losing money, kept afloat only by the occasional blockbuster that supports all the other losers. The film industry is one of the most volatile industries anywhere -- because marketing is so crucial to what they do, and their money gets made (or lost) in such brief spans of time.Let's note that the marketing departments of no other studio in Hollywood was able to foresee the immense success of LotR -- not one. That property's been kicking around for ages, and every studio has passed it up -- even once PJ got involved he was still struggling to find a studio to finance it. Yeah, those marketing flacks got it ALL figured out, don't they?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> Clearly market prediction in the film industry is not very successful. And that's the gist of my point -- that Billy's contention that gender-based behaviour prediction works more often than it fails may not be entirely realistic -- or at least that the film industry offers some reason to believe it isn't perfectly straightforward.Now, as I've said, I broadly agree with TB's remarks. I think you CAN predict behaviour of large groups with some success, and you can predict that sort of behaviour based on gender, sure. And obviously certain sorts of entertainment appeal more to one gender than the other. Knowing that boys go to more action movies than girls do isn't much help when it comes to actually creating an action movie that boys will want to go see.Really, Billy said, "How come nobody's responding to my post?" and I felt sorry for him so came up with something to say.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I'll admit it's not much. But I'm just that sort of guy.And for the record, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! totally rocks.</blockquote>

Verification