On the Environment, Hollywood, and "Jeremiah Johnson"
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There are at least three reasons that Hollywood isn't good at, or really interested in, environmentalism. The first is the most structural and the least interesting. The stories that movies tell well are centered on people. They rely for their impact on human dilemmas, human interaction, human conundrums; this means that the natural works well as a setting for movies, but less well as a topic or (despite what the pull-quotes from so many film reviews assure us) a character itself. On top of this, the film medium is primarily a visual one. In prose, one can speculate on what might happen inside the consciousness of an animal (or the consciousness of a tree, if we're
On the Environment, Hollywood, and "Jeremiah Johnson"
On the Environment, Hollywood, and "Jeremiah…
On the Environment, Hollywood, and "Jeremiah Johnson"
There are at least three reasons that Hollywood isn't good at, or really interested in, environmentalism. The first is the most structural and the least interesting. The stories that movies tell well are centered on people. They rely for their impact on human dilemmas, human interaction, human conundrums; this means that the natural works well as a setting for movies, but less well as a topic or (despite what the pull-quotes from so many film reviews assure us) a character itself. On top of this, the film medium is primarily a visual one. In prose, one can speculate on what might happen inside the consciousness of an animal (or the consciousness of a tree, if we're