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December 2 2011

Grant says there’s a pattern here. I think it’s these: 1. Fascination with uniforms/armed forces declines as millennials grow up. It’s not just exceptional people in the police or the army or the airforce saving the world – it’s the rogues, the fixers, the cons, the underdogs, the playboys. No leading men from the armed forces in action films. 2. Rise of fantasy – As millennials grew up, so did two other fields – video gaming and movie special effects. The latter had to do better than the former to keep the audience occupied. Because movie-makers COULD make stuff blow up – they DID. More movies that – a) exaggerated reality in a ridiculous way (Fast and The Furious) or b) lived in their own made-up Universes. 3. Nostalgia – From Spiderman to Lara Croft to Transformers – these movies were regurgitations of things millennials had consumed as kids/teens – comics, TV series and video games. Books were no longer the only source for Hollywood to steal from. They just stole from their prime audience’s childhood and served it back to them – with awesome special effects, of course.

Grant says there’s a pattern here.

I think it’s these:

1. Fascination with uniforms/armed forces declines as millennials grow up. It’s not just exceptional people in the police or the army or the airforce saving the world – it’s the rogues, the fixers, the cons, the underdogs, the playboys. No leading men from the armed forces in action films.

2. Rise of fantasy – As millennials grew up, so did two other fields – video gaming and movie special effects. The latter had to do better than the former to keep the audience occupied. Because movie-makers COULD make stuff blow up – they DID. More movies that – a) exaggerated reality in a ridiculous way (Fast and The Furious) or b) lived in their own made-up Universes.

3. Nostalgia – From Spiderman to Lara Croft to Transformers – these movies were regurgitations of things millennials had consumed as kids/teens – comics, TV series and video games. Books were no longer the only source for Hollywood to steal from. They just stole from their prime audience’s childhood and served it back to them – with awesome special effects, of course.

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