Compass? We Don’t Need No Stinking Compass!
6th October 2009
In comparison to “real” businesses, I think I can say from personal experience inside and outside the bubble that Hollywood is the most systemically ruthless, amoral, deceitful, cruel and thuggish enterprise outside of Mexican drug cartels and (possibly) D.C. Politics. For all its self-proclaimed “progressiveness,” compared to the daily operations of corporations in the real world, management practices in Hollywood exhibit all the “compassion” of a mid-19th century Dickensian sweatshop.
Imagine that. Ponder the fact that everyone involved in a film was a percentage of the gross, because that’s the most difficult number to falsify.
And then there’s the lying! Not just little, inconsequential lies, but big, bold, beefy, I-don’t-care-if-you-know-I’m-lying-I’m-gonna-lie-anyway lies.
My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised. Of course, when you consider that these people make their living pretending to be somebody (and sometimes something) else, well….