Variety is the spice to life, we all know that.ย Pizza rules.ย Pizza is my favorite food.ย It’s possible I would get tired of pizza pretty quickly.
Monopolies are especially harmful in fields such as film.ย It was clear that the studio system discouraged competition by having studios act as both distributors and exhibitors.ย A landmark Supreme Court ruling from 1948 in U.S.ย In 1948, a landmark Supreme court ruling in U.S.ย Fun fact, the decrees were overturned in 2020 … though arguably, streaming services have been muddying the exhibitor/distributor waters since at least 2012.
It is an overly long way to say: Creative strangleholds can be bad.ย Western Animation has been guilty of this homogeneity for a long time.ย The “Pixar look” was the goal of everyone: a photo-surrealism instantly recognizable that blended 3D animated character with elements actively imitating real life. (ย bokehย fabric!ย skin!).ย It was popular and safe for audiences to accept the “Pixar Look”.ย So the popular line of thought went.ย As the video below explains, in 2018 a film calledย Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verseย changed the game.ย The film, or at least the video essay below, shows how the little movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse changed the game in 2018.