
The Future of Search
People vs Algorithms
Reflections on Film, Reorganization, and Hollywood's Storytelling
This chapter explores the commonality of company reorganizations and hints at a detailed future discussion on the topic. It also touches on the state of Hollywood, advocating for original storytelling beyond the popular comic book adaptations.
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right, we gotta do an entire episode on reorgs sometime. I'm just amazed at how many reorgs a lot of these companies have. And there should be like an oral history of the Conde reorgs. It's just really remarkable. But let's get into the product. Okay. I've
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done variations on this theme before, but this is what I got this week. I was driving out to Shelter Island yesterday and looking for something good to listen to. And you know the podcast, The Rewatchables? Yeah, right. It's a Bill Simmons podcast. What I noticed is they had done a two-part episode on Pulp Fiction, and each episode was two hours, so four hours in total of breaking down every single scene in the movie. And I wasn't gonna listen to it, and I turned it on, and they were cutting between sort of analysis of a scene and then playing the scene. And I was reminded of how special and kind of historical a movie that was. And I remember when it came out, I was working at the Montreal Mirror and we hosted a premiere party for, I can't remember the distribution, I mean it was Miramax at the time. Did Harvey come? Yeah, seeing the movie and just thinking, wow, what an incredible movie. And then waves of rewatching it or watching it with my kids. And last night, I got home and I watched it again. It's kind of one of the few movies that I can watch multiple times. And it just, the whole experience from the fun lesson of having super nerdy film people deconstructed scene by scene in all the context and historical meaning or like just the sort of film history around because Quentin Tarantino is someone who's processed the history of film and kind of brings it to life in his movies. And so it was that whole experience of diving into this obsessive group of people, four hours deconstructing a movie and then watching it again. And that's
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a summertime treat that I would consider a good problem. It's a good movie. They need to make more of them. I think if you see that Bill Simmons has made this point, like the success ofumed Innocent is a good case and point is, I think people gravitate to them and maybe it's a summer thing, maybe it's nostalgia a little bit, but it's a bunch of new audience basically because they're good stories. And they're not like, Hollywood to me is over rotated, but it's not my business. They've over rotated with all of these sequels and all this. I just don't believe that the comic book world is as big as Hollywood seems to think it is. But
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that's me. I loved it by the way. I loved it. Did you watch the- Presumed Innocent?
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I watched the original. The original is enough for me.
Speaker 1
Yeah. I would encourage you to watch this series on Apple TV. It's great. All
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right. I'm going to do it. Thank you all for listening. If you like this podcast, I hope you do. Please leave us a reading and review on Apple or Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts that takes ratings and reviews. Always like to get those. And if you have feedback, do send me a note. My email is bmarisie at therebooting.com. Be back next week. This was fun. I think this was a... Thank you, Brian. Nice to talk to you. Take care.
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Bye. Cool. Thanks.
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