Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese was caught at streaming services Tuesday for reducing cinema to just “content,” and said algorithms are ruining the discovery.
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“Cinema art is systematically reduced, lost, diminished, and reduced to the lowest genre, ‘content.’ ”
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In a cover article for Harper’s, Scorsese considered his love of cinema as an art form, and described how Federico Fellini’s films helped to inspire him, but also criticized the model. a conventional cinematic industry, which has put classic films on membership services that do not have proper reservation and keep viewers from exploring films outside of their own bubbles.
“We cannot rely on the film industry, as it is, to focus on the cinema,” he wrote.
While he noted that streaming services have been beneficial to some filmmakers, including himself, “he has created a situation where everything is presented to the viewer. on a level playing field, which feels democratic but which is not. If further observation is suggested by algorithms based on what you have already seen, and the suggestions are based solely on subject or genre, what does that make to your cinema art?
“Non-democratic or ‘elitist’ curacy is a term that is now widely used to make sense. It’s an act of generosity – you share what you love and what inspires you. (The best streaming platforms, such as the Criterion Channel and MUBI and traditional centers such as TCM, are based on curation – they are reserved.) An algorithm, by definition, is based on a calculation that ‘treat the viewer as a consumer and nothing. other. ”
Scorsese also ran a studio that doesn’t even bother to distribute old movies – a point on which Walt Disney Co. will be based. DIS,
was criticized for, after jumping a lot of Fox classic movies.
“We need to make it clear to the current legal owners of these films that they make up much more than just being used and then locked away. They are one of the greatest treasures of our culture, and they must be treated accordingly, ”he wrote.
Scorsese, who is also a film superhero, has mourned the death of film as an art several times in recent years, and pulled a flak in 2019 for saying that Marvel superhero blockers don’t count as a real house- picture. He has also praised the potential of streaming services to revitalize cinema. His last film, “The Irishman,” was streamed exclusively on Netflix NFLX,
and his next film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” by Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, will stream on Apple’s AAPL,
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