It's a fun quote but I've never been confident of its accuracy tbh. Tarkovsky for example bumped up against Party censors on Andrei Rublev and the reasoning was pretty ridiculous
I think what it's saying is that the US censors content based on whatever will bring in as big of a profit as possible, where in USSR you could make a movie that loses money as long as the message was good.
That's how I interpreted it anyway. George is just saying he thinks the profit algorithm that determines what movies get made is more restrictive than USSR content moderation.
Yeah, I have no clue how accurate it is. It's an interesting way to contextualize how "freedom" doesn't really mean "freedom" in a capitalist market, though. It succinctly makes an important point about how much power capital can have independently of government.
It's a fun quote but I've never been confident of its accuracy tbh. Tarkovsky for example bumped up against Party censors on Andrei Rublev and the reasoning was pretty ridiculous
I think what it's saying is that the US censors content based on whatever will bring in as big of a profit as possible, where in USSR you could make a movie that loses money as long as the message was good.
That's how I interpreted it anyway. George is just saying he thinks the profit algorithm that determines what movies get made is more restrictive than USSR content moderation.
Yeah, I have no clue how accurate it is. It's an interesting way to contextualize how "freedom" doesn't really mean "freedom" in a capitalist market, though. It succinctly makes an important point about how much power capital can have independently of government.