via Reddit:
“One of the best vehicles to siphon taxpayer and citizenry money off to black projects is movies.
The last 10 years have seen the worst movies made with big bad budgets:
The star wars flicks and spin-offs, the flash, Eternals, Black Widow, Superman, Indiana Jones, Supergirl – all from the major studios – AI writes the script and songs – credible evidence out there that the disney movie Wish was completely made by AI – songs and dialogue – and also the Brad Pitt movie F1 where the music and the script and storyline are AI generated. And the audience can’t tell if the extras are AI anymore – so the cost to produce them has gone 10 times lower – no need to pay actors and put them in costumes or get permission to shoot from a city and pay the city. And you can tell from the Flash, that for that level of money, the VFX is so so mediocre and lightweight – as though it was made offshore in one of the low cost countries like India or China.
And then the movie flops – and it becomes a giant tax write-off for the corporation. And this is why they have been intentionally stuffing in all their LGBT messages, actors, race swapping etc., coz when you know the whole thing is a vehicle for something else – and you get to transfer the loss to shareholders – but Iger, Bezos and other studio execs still get to keep their big salaries – anything goes, right.
They only say “dang it” if the movie accidentally performs well, like Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker. So they made the movie worse in Joker 2, coz they needed that box office bomb.
The money siphoned is large and goes straight to off planet sites, ocean projects, underground projects etc etc.,
The general public always is like “go woke, go broke”. Meanwhile, there is so much going on in the production of a bad movie.
As a case study, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny – almost 400 mil budget? Hell no. Even Avatar 1 didn’t cost that much (adjusted for inflation). But it’s a loss for Disney on paper when it comes to P&L financial engineering.”