Nah culture should be collectively owned and openly referenceable, especially popular stuff. The problem is that Hollywood is so used to having to avoid unlicensed IP that the only reference they have for it is over-the-top product placement. So this ends up coming off like Baby’s First Fanfiction instead of like a reasonable use of cultural references
In communism fiction should only be allowed to reference something that only a maximum of 1000 people know
Nah culture should be collectively owned and openly referenceable, especially popular stuff. The problem is that Hollywood is so used to having to avoid unlicensed IP that the only reference they have for it is over-the-top product placement. So this ends up coming off like Baby’s First Fanfiction instead of like a reasonable use of cultural references