Jerry Seinfeld just did a GQ interview where he said that during his recent experience making UNFROSTED, a comedy about a competition between two rival breakfast companies, that the film’s makers appeared to have “no idea” that the industry was dead. “They’re so dead serious! They don’t have any idea that the movie business is over. They have no idea,” he said.
Genocide Jerry seemed to be expressing his opinion that the industry lives in a bubble of denial (and that my impression as well, albeit from a great distance). He added, "But film doesn’t occupy the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy that it did for most of our lives.”
When asked what he thought had replaced films, Seinfeld went on to describe a series of dissatisfied and distracted emotions.
“Depression? Malaise? I would say
confusion. Disorientation replaced the movie business. Everyone I know in show business, every day, is going, ‘What’s going on? How do you do this? What are we supposed to do now?’”
I think the 1998 finale is way over-criticized.
Seinfeld also told GQ that while a lot of people liked the NEWHART finale in 1990, and he felt the MARY TYLER MOORE finale in 1977 was "okay," he
loved the MAD MEN finale the best.
