https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1392111119511216132
Amazon studios executives had to send Bezos regular updates on the projects in development that included spreadsheets describing how each show had each story element; and if one element was missing, they had to explain why.
storytelling is when you're ticking boxes in a checklist, and the more boxes you tick, the more storytelling you're doing
He's not trying to produce art, he's trying to make slop
at least slop is cheap and made from food leftovers and produces wonderful results :Hoggers: , it's not a billion dollar production
They're trying to feed the maximum amount of pigs
This. He's making TV shows that people will watch, not something that will endure for the ages.
Sadly, this shit works. There was a book that came out that instructed Hollywood exactly how to make a movie. Down to the minute. You can take a stopwatch and the book to a movie and watch them hit the points one by one.
Is it Save The Cat! by Blake Snyder?
He's willing to spend insane amounts of money on streaming media because he assumes he'll make even more money by getting people to sign up for Prime and starting to use it.
The sad thing - he's probably right.