To the editor of the LA Times, in regard to this article,
To quote David Beckham, please be honest about the “effects” of the SAG/AFTRA and WGA strikes. Those strikes did not cause the current slowdown in productions.
The slowdown is ALL at the command of the production companies and their C suites. And they’re doing it in part to break IATSE. They know that contract is coming up, and if the IATSE membership is already demoralized and feeling financial pressure, the C suites believe they’ll get an easy contract.
In any other time, if any other industry had such incompetent, rapacious management as Hollywood, they’d all be turfed and looking for jobs in used cars, but since Line Go Up MBA incompetence has taken over the C suites, Hollywood has become an exercise in The Marx Brothers’ gag of feeding the train to itself to win a race that doesn’t exist. The studios are eating themselves, throwing away their primary resource — their talent — in the false notion that they can still make a product that will make a profit without the human expertise that makes their product exist.
The problem is nothing but smooth-brains in the C suites. Be honest. Thank you.
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