Hey everyone,

This is the continuation of the previously started series, for the disclaimer and the first post go here.

Brake Candidate #2 - Movie Industry

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First of all, as previously, I don't think watching or producing movies is wrong in any general sense.

Money:

We have a cross revenue of 286 billion dollars [1] in 2015 with a prevision of 324 billion dollars in 2020.

Following [2] the top 30 actors in 2017 made a cross of almost 1 billion dollars.

While the top 30 actors seem to get more than the professional athletes the list declines way faster and even decently known actors often don't make more than 60-80k a year.

Therefore, the main problem here is not only the amount of money which goes into few pockets.

Time:

Following [3] the average time a US citizen spends in front of the television is over 5 hours a day which makes a cross of 77 full days spent in front of the television a year.

• That's more than 1/5th of the year spent in front of the television;

• If you'd spent this time working at minimum wage you'd get more than 13k $;

• If you'd spend this time studying a language you could get fluent in a language within 2 years;

• If you'd spend this time studying you could graduate almost any course in 8 years;

• If you'd spend this time educating your children the chance of them becoming criminal would decrease significantly as [4] states that the relationship of the children to their parents has a significant impact on their future.

Besides that, watching this amount of television can have serious effects on your brain and body.

According to [4] television consumption times are linked to 8 of the leading causes of death in the US!

As with professional sports, moderate consume is the important part.
There is no problem to watch an hour of television a day before going to bed, not even 2 hours is a real problem, but when the average time in front of the television is 5h that means that half the people even watch more than that!

Quality:

While the factor time is already more important in this case than the money spent, way more important in my opinion is the quality and value of what is being watched.

For sure, there is educational television content.
But, for example, according to a study in 2008 [5] only 35% of all programs labeled as educational were rated at least minimally educational.
But this is a study from 2008 and it has been shown that this rate is declining [6].

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find good numbers about how much of the content on the television, in general, is educational, but I can guarantee you, it's not much. (I'd guess around under 3% if 10% of the content would be marked as educational and only 35% of that is at least minimally educational, we're at around 3%).

Besides that, we'd' think that in a world where #MeToo became a huge scandal and Hollywood rebelled strongly we would think that we're on a good way.

But, I doubt that strongly. Hollywood is one of the main drivers to sexualize and objectify men and women. Today, it is almost impossible to watch a movie or series without seeing men and women being objectified and our children grow up thinking that seeing a man or woman or even boy or girl as an object is perfectly normal (At television standards).

Hollywood started criticizing abuse last year, while this has been obvious for everyone for decades already.
It seems more like a reaction to the scandals than a real opinion.

For decades actors and actresses are "abused" and sold as objects to the masses and most people consume this "public degradation" without even giving it a second thought.

And, in my opinion, this is getting worse every year, at which point in history did we stop enjoying quality content and started going back the monkey line seeking more and more sexual content every other year.
We should ask ourselves more often where we are as a race and when we entered this vicious cycle and what we can do against this.

Why don't you show yourself naked or half/naked on television? Wouldn't you be embarrassed? Wouldn't you feel exposed? Wouldn't you feel like losing your integrity as a Person? at least partially?

Watching this, we not only degrade ourselves but also other people in the process.

Therefore, we should respect the integrity of each human being.

• Independently of the gender.
• Independently of the social situation.
• Independently of the profession.
• Independently of the place (Television, Newspaper, Real-life)

What can we do?

Fixing this would be extremely easy, the solution is as straightforward as it could be.

Stop consuming that shit!!!

Really!

Search yourself quality content, avoid tv shows and movies exploiting and abusing human beings.

If the viewers decrease of that content the industry has to react and will start producing less.

Start thinking of Actors/Actresses like people!!!

Actors are people too, and only because they earn well it doesn't mean that they deserve to lose their integrity as a person.
Why do you think there are so many issues with alcoholism and drugs in the movie business?

I hope I could influence the one or other to, at least, recapitulate about this topic so we can build a better society, a better world.