RIP Hollywood

[Nyotarules]

With 24th century holographic entertainment then does that mean no more Hollywood, no more TV shows, no more Oscars, Cannes, Golden globes etc? Will live theatre be the thing? Why should producers use live actors when holograms are cheaper and don't have agents?

 

[Spot261]

i hope not

 

[The Old Mixer]

Will live theatre be the thing? Why should producers use live actors when holograms are cheaper and don't have agents?

Because some people like to act. Cf. Beverly Crusher.

 

[MacLeod]

Well in the Trek timeline TV didn't last much beyond the 2040's anyway.

 

[exocomp]

According to Ent they are still making movies in the 2150s. So I am guessing that they still have movie theaters then. Plus they still have awards to movies. So if hollywood or the 22nd century equivalent died, it must have been much later.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Movies, yes. Hopefully without Hollywood culture and centrally controlled media outlets.

Maybe in the future, movie special effects are so cheap that studios started taking more risks again, so we get more original movies and less remakes and reboots.

 

[Ghel]

Well, as Hollywood today is finding out, CG imagery is only one of many tools in a filmmakers toolkit. Holodeck characters are probably like computer game characters. They are fun to interact with and "real" enough within their specific setting or program, but you wouldn't want to watch computer simulations "acting" for two hours.

 

[Ghel]

Movies, yes. Hopefully without Hollywood culture and centrally controlled media outlets.

Maybe in the future, movie special effects are so cheap that studios started taking more risks again, so we get more original movies and less remakes and reboots.

This may be an aside, but Hollywood really has never taken risks (as a rule). Most of the best films from even the "Golden Era" of cinema are either remakes or adaptations from novels and plays. Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland was actually a remake of a silent film of the same name (and an adaptation from the original novel). The Ten Commandments (biblical adaptation) was also a silent film prior to the Charlton Heston version. Double Indemnity, Frankenstein, Nosferatu, and Cape Fear are all adaptations from novels. If anything, however, I would agree that I would love to see a future where filmmaking becomes inexpensive enough that more risks are taken and more films (both mainstream and "higher-risk") are produced. We'd probably need more actors, though, unless holodeck characters really can act.

 

[2takesfrakes]

In the TNG episode "Haven," Riker's seen sitting in front a small hologram of two harp-playing women in togas and somehow, this gets a pass as "entertainment." Perhaps, it's meant to be reassuring for the audience that even in the future, there's 600 channels, with nothing on ...

 

[UnknownSample]

WW3 blows everything away and they have to start over.

 

[Vandervecken]

WW3 blows everything away and they have to start over.

Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a civilization gone with the wind.

 

[Kevman7987]

I'm sure that even though TV no longer exists, writers still write serialized drama and put it out to be uploaded and since the holodeck is able to create the actors and scenes instead of an actual cast and crew, "episodes" can come out as fast as writers can write them. You could probably program in the likeness of any actor you wish. Heck, make them all John Malkovich, if you dare.

In the TNG episode "Haven," Riker's seen sitting in front a small hologram of two harp-playing women in togas and somehow, this gets a pass as "entertainment." Perhaps, it's meant to be reassuring for the audience that even in the future, there's 600 channels, with nothing on ...

Knowing Riker, his call came in probably just before the two women's togas "accidentally" fell off and these lines play; "Oh no, my toga fell off! Mine too! We should get closer together." Pornographic music begins playing as we the conductor steps into the image with his "conducting baton" ready.

 

[UnknownSample]

I think society's almost total absorption with sitting in front of TVs and monitors builds up to some sort of head, where it becomes clear, finally, how it can all go too far. Whatever this disaster is, it's transforming to the society. People do stuff far more than "watching". A good thing it happened before 24th century holograms, or we'd totally lose ourselves in those...

 

[2takesfrakes]

Knowing Riker, his call came in probably just before the two women's togas "accidentally" fell off and these lines play; "Oh no, my toga fell off! Mine too! We should get closer together." Pornographic music begins playing as we the conductor steps into the image with his "conducting baton" ready.

Let's hope not! I never got into porn. The females usually seem stoned out of their minds, it makes you wonder if they know where they are or what they're doing, really. Otherwise, they have as much enthusiasm for it as though they were making a pot of coffee. They start doing one thing ... abruptly stop in the middle of it ... then move on to a completely unrelated area, for no apparent reason. I mean ... it's cute to see a hot chick in the raw, but after a minute, or so, of it ... the novelty's worn off, already. And besides ... Riker's frequently scene with high-heeled women, keeping him otherwise occupied ... refreshed ... and entertained. When he fell and fell hard for Minuet, though ... I still can't believe it. Don't be like that, Riker ... come on. Snap out of it ...