The Hollywood 2023 Strike a Deal, but fall through, yet again!

For many writers and thinkers, Hollywood is the lost cause for many who find the slab like quality come together in an unspoken agreement. Pay the writers. Pay the people who work tirelessly to make dreams come true. That should be the only conclusion that would make any writer want to write movies. In a 2005 Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture on American Literature “They Worship Death Here’: William Faulkner, Sanctuary, and Hollywood” by Richard Grey, could give way to the poignant state of Hollywood’s persistent decay of artistic integrity, Faulkner’s ordeal with Hollywood led him to write a Wallace Beery wrestler picture, but found it too abhorrent to bear. ‘I have realised lately’, Faulkner confided to his publisher in 1947, ‘how much trash and junk writing for movies corrupted into my writing.’^[1]”

            While this might not be a surprise to people, this isn’t intended for shock and awe purposes. To clarify why the 2023 writers strike isn’t just a usual strike. Creative people are always underpaid, but the conditions in 2023 were and are drastically different, thanks to AI becoming a problem, and while some good qualities can be used with AI, it doesn’t take away the idea that writers should always be paid their worth. With this long introduction should be forgiven, the stakes are drastically different from 1947.