In the wake of the SAG and WGA strikes, film fans are more than aware that studio executives don’t have anyone’s best interest in mind.
While it may be occasionally advantageous to make a good movie on a studio level, as the success of Oppenhemier and Barbie proves that audiences will turn out in mass to see great films, the artistic quality of a production doesn’t matter to a board of executives that simply want to reap the financial benefits.
There’s a cynicism to Hollywood that isn’t new, and films have never been able to tackle the complex process of the studio system itself; understandably, filmmakers might be cautious about exposing the institution that they were working in! However, none of these trepidations scared the great director Robert Altman, who tackled Hollywood’s corporate structure with his 1992 tragicomedy masterpiece The Player.
Tim Robbins’ performance as…
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