Peter Bart: Would Hollywood’s Old Guard Tinker With TikTok? Dismiss “Disclaimer’?
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deadline.comDavid O. Selznick was a demanding producer who often interrupted pitches and then bullied filmmakers once their movies started shooting.
I wonder how impresarios of his era — Selznick, Sam Goldwyn or Darryl F. Zanuck — would have coped with the unruly YouTubers, TikTokers, Instagrammers or superstar influencers crowding today’s marketplace.
Or how they’d deal with esteemed filmmakers like Alfonso Cuarón, who today are re-inventing and re-structuring their craft to fit the ecocentrics of streamerville?
In a maze of memos, Selznick told George Cukor, then King Vidor, that they lacked the pizzazz to turn Gone With The Wind into a hit.
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