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I hope not - can we let them explore what film-making means to them, instead of sending the worst offending film-colonizers after them?

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At least for George Lucas, he was self-funding to start Star Wars and did not want Hollywood to own a piece of the pie (source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416716/). I'd think that would count for something in that he'd want others to realize joy in a similar model of creation.

"Can we let them continue to create videos with old smartphones and OSS for YouTube, instead of letting them unleash the full scale of their creativity and massively changing their lives with one of the most well-known movie producers of all time and the multi-million $ funding that comes with him?"

> unleash the full scale of their creativity

What if their creativity is about making amazing stuff with limited resources?

You suggest giving essentially unlimited resources, seems like a good way to use badly that creativity.

I remember when I wanted to do 3D on Flash before Sandy3D. I had a 500 mhz P3 processor at the time, with a a crazy 368 MB of RAM. I learned/did much more interesting things on that machine than when I upgraded to some much more powerful computers.

Constraints are pretty great ways to be forced to learns and move fast.

Ha. Who knows? Perhaps they will invent a remarkably efficient way of creating vfx. Maybe they'll design the next generation of processors to help them out. Maybe they'll build a content sharing system that makes sense for their environment. Maybe they'll do things we can't imagine.

Who knows?

At least on netflix, saw even worst shows there

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