Alex Ross Perry

It used to be like,

You're vaguely being paid to develop this while you do research for two years.

And I'm sure Master and Commander had a similar kind of heavy lift of like approaching the time period.

We also talked about it.

Yeah.

And he really did the most with that kind of thing.

But the thing is—

almost every time, these were forever movies.

Like, obviously, Year of Living Dangerously is not, like, you know, a basic cable classic, but, you know, these movies last forever.

Like, he really just had this instinct of making something that wouldn't age at all.

Image Nation is still very active.

You'll see that logo a lot.

I know the logo.

But that's when shit gets very depressing for me of this generation or this level of filmmaker where you see the independent cobbled together financing from all the people who are probably in jail now for one reason or another.

Financial crimes in their own country.

And just the idea that he's going hat in hand to the Middle East and trying to get $5 million for a chunk of his epic, this is just really bad when this starts happening.

I mean, but you asking... As we sit here in the shambles of Roque...

the collapsing nature of being able to support things that are just obviously of interest to audiences.

Well, we keep sending you the links.

What they forgot is when you do that, you have to fail for like two years.