Chapter 142
TL: KSD
It wasn’t the first time I’d experienced everyone in the world acting like they wanted to devour me.
EP 9 – Sound
The pandemic that swept across the globe killed a lot of people, killed free trade, killed tolerance, and killed the film industry too.
The film industry is sustained by the cycle of Director & Writer – Production & Distribution – Theaters. If even one of the three collapses, it’s fatal. The theaters collapsed.
People stopped going to theaters out of fear of the plague. To survive, theaters raised ticket prices. As a result audiences only chose “safe bets” when picking movies.
Result: Everything withered except for mediocre films.
To put it more bluntly, it was totally fucked.
Even if you worked hard to make a film, people wouldn’t watch it. Since there was no profit, distribution companies shelved films, waiting for the day a hero would ride in on a white horse to save them.