Since when do we expect stand up comedians to tell the truth? What the fuck is this?

No reason to be sorry, it’s an interesting conversation. I don’t know everything about movies or making them.

To answer your question about what I would say to investors to sell a movie like nightcrawler, the low budget and the cast attached to it must have been the selling point. These type of movies gets made because…

NIghtcrawler is a great example, he is unlikable and he does win in the end.
I didn’t say the point of every movie is for the main character to win.
I said unlikeable characters are not here to win in the end, except to frustrate the audience.
I think you have a winner with Nightcrawler. It’s a rare kind of movie…

Uncut Gems is a good example.

The movie is putting you in his shoes, the stress of his life, the deceptions and constant struggle of his hustles and bad decisions.

He is pathetic, he’s a loser that tries too hard to win, you feel sorry for him, and in the end he gets killed and it’s his own fault. But he’s not…

Well, they’re here to be “punished” in some way.

You can’t have a unlikeable character and have him win, or maybe if the point of the movie is to frustrate the audience. If you have an example I would be happy to hear it.

Unlikable characters are there to be killed off, think Di Caprio in Django or Jennifer Jason leigh in the Hateful Eight.

It’s obviously not the point of a biopic about a photographer.

Villains can be relatable though, like the Joker in TDK or the Joker Movie, or Charlize Theron in Monster. You want the audience to be…

It’s a poorly worded question to be honest. A better question would have been “Why and how am I supposed to relate to this character.”

Doesn’t matter man or woman, hero or villain, if the audience can relate to him/her, they’ll like said character.

“I’ve... had a director say to me: ‘Listen, you do my film and I’ll get your little Lee funded…’ Little!” she continued. “Or we’d have potential male investors saying things like: ‘Tell me, why am I supposed to like this woman?’”

I don’t think those things were said because she’s a woman. The first one is…

Pretty much that, except with a stick of dynamite.

Looks like they made the decision much easier for you. Go Unreal

“Unity Software net income for the twelve months ending June 30, 2023 was $-0.985B, a 49.51% increase year-over-year. Unity Software annual net income for 2022 was $-0.921B, a 72.93% increase from 2021. Unity Software annual net income for 2021 was $-0.533B, a 88.66% increase from 2020.”

They had a great thing going,…

The only smart thing to do is do a 180° on this. They’re going to kill their own company with this.
This is not just bad, it’s catastrophic.

Holy crap that’s bad.
And it’s not like Unity needed the money, they made 1.4 billion in revenue last year and a 920 millions in net income.

Why would they destroy their company like this? 

Life expectancy for a man in the US is 77 years.
Totally reasonable to require that a director who’s over that age choose his replacement.

The other solutions would be that the movie goes unfinished or that someone else choose a director to finish it. None of which is better IMO

Midichlorians define how much you are sensitive to the force, and that everybody has it.

Think of being a jedi as doing math, and midichlorians as IQ. Everyone can learn to do math, not everybody has the IQ of Einstein.

So in the same way anybody can become a jedi, not everybody can be a great jedi, and it’s a…

It was a crap movie, but that wasn’t the main problem with it.

My take on it is that like with anything in life, some people are great jedis naturally, and some will always be ok jedis even if they train hard all their life.

It was always clear that not all jedis are equals, it’s just that the movies and tv shows always focused on the greatest ones.

Holy crap that's an impressive line up.

Every comments is missing the point here. If they can do this, then that means nobody and nothing is safe.

Shouldn’t be capped at 500 000.