Reblog if you’re a Millennian and do not ever want to be taught anything unless you told it on the cell phone
reblog if this is the first time you’ve heard of this movie
In the 70s when with competition from TV and the fading of prewar habits people no longer went to the (studio-tied) theater to see whatever once a week you had the rise of suburban multiplexes (a choice of what to see), the blockbuster era, and overall a shift to promoting the movie, not making it, as the real challenge.
Now, until recently that meant you’d see ads for it around 8 times in the 2 weeks before it opened on the programs that the kind of people who would see the movie watched
And they would promote it through other bottlenecked media. The stars would go on talk shows that were not only the only place to encounter celebrities communicating in a given day but the only thing to take in at 11 PM period, or entertainment media that was the only place to see attractive people you recognized be glamorous all day, and promote the movie (in return for their presence promoting the medium)
Where are they supposed to find you now, your Discord server?
