Is Creativity Dying in Hollywood? Another Director Sounds the Alarm

For Harmony Korine, “cinema is no longer the dominant art form.”

Came to present Baby Invasion At the Venice Film Festival this weekend, the American filmmaker Harmony Korine explained that for him, a filmmaker must always experiment and dare. The director of spring breakers believes that Hollywood no longer wants to take risks and is therefore losing its creativity. In front of the press at the Mostra, he calls out the studios:

“Hollywood needs to encourage young talent, aspiring filmmakers, to be creative. It's not a necessity for them (financially), but it would be wise to do it anyway! Because we're starting to see Hollywood creatively collapse, for the simple reason that studios are seeing a lot of their most creative minds leave for the world of video games and streaming.”

An opinion increasingly shared in Los Angeles, as Jonathan Nolanwho told us at the time of the release of his series Fallout : “This new generation that I am part of looks at video games without contempt. On the contrary, we look at them with admiration. At the end of the 2000s, when I was asked my favorite movie, I said: Fallout! Bioshock! Portal! Games have become sophisticated. They have taken a punk-rock path left free by cinema. Game creators have dared to tell really ballsy stories that movies have gradually abandoned. They are less and less provocative when video games, themselves, are digging this furrow.”

This vision of Hollywood, Harmony Korine sums it up like this: “They are so locked into their conventions that all the really creative young talent is now going to find other avenues and go elsewhere to express themselves. Because cinema is no longer the dominant art form.”