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PURE CONJECTURE
What if Writers and Actors Told the Studios to Stuff It?
Maybe it’s time for the big studios to go the way of the Dodo
I’m sick of corporations taking advantage of working people.
When the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) joined the Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) to strike for a contract overhaul that would adequately address the changing industry and provide working people with fair compensation, it was just the last in a long line of battles between corporate America and working Americans.
But this time, the strikers have a silver bullet. This time the strikers aren’t nameless, faceless people fighting for their rights. They are familiar faces with names we know. These are people we respect and appreciate for their unique talents and abilities — they are also the people who put the words in the mouths of the characters we watch intently because they have the power to give us glimpses into other worlds through their creativity, humor, and intelligence. We need them.
I don’t care who runs the studios — now that I have a reason to think about it, I would prefer the studio system didn’t exist. I hate watching 30 minutes of action movie nonsense while I wait for a movie I paid for to begin. The last time I tried to skip that, we found other…
