Glen Powell – Hollywood has “Underserved” Large Parts of America

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There are few actors, or anyone in Hollywood nowadays, who read the signs of untapped potential, particularly in storytelling. In this case, however, one of the few actors who have “unplugged” from the Matrix that is Hollywood see this plain as day, and that is Glen Powell, star of Top Gun: Maverick and the upcoming sequel Twisters. In a recent interview with The Telegraph, he said, 

“Having grown up in and around Texas, I’m aware there are vast parts of America that have been underserved in terms of movies that they want to see. You sort of have New York and Los Angeles making the decisions about what gets made, but there’s a whole lot more audience out there you need to think about.”

He is not at all wrong with this statement. Hollywood has lost the old spark it once had, from the Golden Era to about the mid-2010s. Nobody pushes the boundaries anymore, writes something that would shock most people with the subject matter, but in the end, despite it all, ends up becoming a classic. The activists who have dug deep into the networks lack any and all passion and drive to create stories worth telling. This, unfortunately enough, is not new when one looks into the history of Hollywood, mainly the fifties and the Cold War era, when “pinkos” were infiltrating the industry, something Walt Disney himself warned about. 

These people sought to subvert all the things that made beautiful, meaningful art and, sadly, in this modern era, have succeeded in the mainstream. Any movie put out is always filled with “the message” (please tell me you all read that in Drinker’s voice); therefore, many people grow sick of going the theaters, let alone that it’s outrageously expensive now to take a family of five to see a film. If the story is well written and has actual soul with no hidden agendas, the people will go out in droves to see it. There is much talk these days about “dead” genres – and yes, some “died” decades ago – however, in this day and age, that means there is ample opportunity to seize on a handful of these stories and write them well. 

“One of the things that I’ve realized recently is that when studios say a genre is dead, all it means is that there’s a huge opportunity, because a market is not being served,” Powell stated. “The business stopped making romantic comedies, apparently, because romantic comedies weren’t making any money in theatres. But my belief is there’s no problem facing Hollywood that can’t be solved by a really good movie.”

As correct as Powell is with this, the problem is most obvious: Hollywood itself. The more people begin to feel braver in speaking out, the more this will be exposed to the normie masses who do not pay as great attention as the fans do. It’s high time, too, that more actors speak out, the ones who are not so “plugged in” and still possess their souls because, the way the industry is going, it cannot sustain itself much longer, and when it collapses, what will replace it? Something far worse, or will it return to its former glory in time?

These are questions worth pondering, but this also presents opportunities for people who have an itch to tell their stories, to do. Go full speed, write that novel, write that script, paint that canvas, anything that strikes your passion. Do not let any doubts hold you back. Create, create, create!