Freaks vs. hipsters: Who will dominate the film industry?
September, 18; 2025. By Arscodex
Peter Jackson's King Kong shooting
The cinema with which the author of this article grew up with was undoubtedly dominated by geeks. And now we must draw an imaginary line, more like a kind of brotherhood that doesn't exist, that would bring together most of the geeky directors in the film world, mainly in this case, Hollywood, and therefore Anglo-Saxon. It must be said that the author doesn't personally know any of these Anglo-Saxon directors, and it makes him a little sad, but now is not the time to get melancholic, because that's not what this article is about.
The fictional brotherhood of freaky film directors/producers, I've always thought, hehe, and pardon me those mentioned, would be honorarily presided over by J. R. R. Tolkien, creator of The Lord of the Rings. We would continue with other members such as Stan Lee, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Ridley Scott, or, a little younger, Peter Jackson and/or J. K. Rowling (creator of Harry Potter).
In terms of Hispanic geekdom, the author of this article must say that he knows almost all, if not all, of the Hispanic members of this imaginary brotherhood of freaky directors: Guillermo del Toro (a hybrid of Hispanic and Anglo-Saxon), and of course Santiago Segura and Álex de la Iglesia. We'll also mention actress Carolina Bang, the latter director's current partner (or so we think), as a female member of this fictional brotherhood because she's also very geeky. Oh, I almost forgot to include myself, Pedro Alonso Pablos, in this illustrious, nonexistent brotherhood of geeky directors.
Well, there are all those names from this nonexistent brotherhood, each in their own field, who together amass a very high percentage of Hollywood and Spanish box office hits (which is, ultimately, the environment in which this writer moves), and many of them also amass gigantic personal fortunes. The reality is that not all of them are very active, and that harms cinema as a whole, because their eternal enemies, the hipsters, are currently dominating the film world with their politically correct, fantasy-poor offerings.
What's the current situation? The current situation is that, with a couple of examples, cinema is dominated by the urban tribe of hipsters, and that makes movies, as we mentioned above, very realistic and very politically correct. There's no room for creativity or fantasy. And what's happening? Well, it turns out that many people have long since switched off, for example, following the Oscars ceremony; they're simply no longer interested, and that, gentlemen, is a disgrace to the entire industry as a whole.
Therefore, it's necessary to bring out freaky pride, without any complexes, and strive for the film industry to once again be dominated by card-carrying geeks. So that there aren't just a couple of freakies working out there, but rather, as we say, the industry is controlled by these people. Ha ha ha.
Featured links in People
