The academy awards have the academy awards have announced by two thousand and twenty four all feature. Films will need to meet several diversity requirements in order to win best picture to satisfy the academy. Filmmakers can hire an african american or native American for the lead actor or they can ensure that at least thirty cognitive or physical disabilities Mark Stein is a legitimately serious student of film. We thought it would be interesting to get his take on what this means for the thank you so much for coming on. This seems like a turning point. You think it is. We used to the ponies for doing things like this making when they said in Hungary, in nineteen forty five, the Hungarians left other one thousand nine hundred and forty five, the Hungarians left other operetta

the misfortunes to sit through one called the State Department struggled it played about as well as it sounded and wed made jokes about the communist for doing that, all the way through to the fall of the Berlin Wall and right away doing it. Thirty percent of secondary roles under this new deal are going to have to be filled by made up of people from at least two underrepresented, racial groups. For example, you were talking about the new african black Panther movement. I wasnt quite interested in making Anna film about them, but you couldnt under these rules, because at least thirty percent of the secondary roles would have to be black as weve seen. They knew african Black Panther Movement is entirely white, so that film could never get made in todays Hollywood would.

This is the death of arts. This is art by quota and there this is art by quota and there is no future and that they are declining as a medium. They are declining as a medium of interest. Can anybody creek creative now creativity depends on the truth and creativity is in decline. Over the last one hundred years, weve lost the ability to do certain things like opera or representative oil painting, but it doesnt matter because now weve got new things like pop songs and sitcoms and motion pictures, and we cant do any of those. Two Hollywood has been propped up for the century by mid 20th century superheroes, mostly

creative, around one thousand nine hundred and sixty four by Stanley and Jack Kirby, but which people still go to ca because of what was done in nineteen, sixty four in the middle might like jk rolling with curry powder or James Bond. They are dead creatively in those guys. If you recall a few weeks ago that led to magazine by the writers like jk, rolling, the Handmaids tale and all the rest of them, they are sort of were a bit concerned about this. Cancel culture, listen, listen, Margaret Atwood! You guys need to. I knew some of these people. Some of them were quite helpful to be during my free speech battles in Canada at decade ago, and they dont realize now that they are in the crosshairs and they have 5 10 years to turn

this thing around. If you dont want to be doing, the Socialist Department store operatic, you guys have got to speak up now, because this is the death of art in a movement that hates art and nature they hate. Both of those things is a very dark movement. I think you are right to frame this in the terms it deserves.