'Dicks: The Musical' director Larry Charles slams big-budget films. Here is why
Larry Charles said that he finds it offensive when movies cost $250 million and the world is in the state that it's in. Participating in the 'WTF With Marc Maron' podcast, he spoke frankly on why he steers clear of working on big-budget movies. Slamming the Hollywood studio system, he called it a “media monopoly system” in the US.
'Authoritarian big brother'
Charles, known for his directorial collaborations with Sacha Baron Cohen said, «I try to make things like ‘Dangerous Comedy’ or this movie [‘Dicks: The Musical’].»
'Dicks: The Musical' starring Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Josh Sharp, Aaron Jackson and Bowen Yang, is currently playing in theaters.
According to 'Variety', he said, «Kind of an authoritarian big brother sort of thing that we — they’ve figured out over the years, they don’t have to make you, they don’t have to scare you, they have to seduce you.”
'Seduced by great movies'
He added further, „So we’re all seduced by great TV shows and great movies and we’re distracted by those things, and we’re then indulging in that same capitalist system and there’s no way it’s going to change as long as we do that.“
High budget films
Elaborating on the high-budget films, he said that radical little work that’s not going to cost any money is going to make money.’ Charles explained further and said that he hasn’t been able to, he has been doing stuff on YouTube, and he has been trying to figure out a way to get out of that, to move out of that. He also said that it is difficult to do so because YouTube is owned by somebody, and Instagram is owned by somebody.
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