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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Guys, I know that I'm usually very anti-war and I do want to stay consistent. However, maybe some war and some real hardship would be good for society because people seriously need something better to do than sitting online just seeking and waiting, hoping, living for the moment that a celebrity says something or does something that they don't like.
And this week's victim is none other than Timothee Chalamet. So a few weeks ago, he did an interview with Matthew McConaughey. It was, you know, in promotion for his new movie, Marty Supreme. And he's, you know, I think up for an Oscar for that or wants an Oscar. I don't even know. But this clip specifically from that interview took over TikTok. Just watch.
I don't want to be working in ballet or opera or, you know, things where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive even though it's like no one cares about this anymore. All respect to the ballet and opera people out there.
Oh boy, did Timothee Chalamet step on a landmine there because he criticized opera and ballet or he just pointed to the fact that really those are dying art forms in our modern society. Now you can like or dislike the fact that Timothee Chalamet said that, but I feel like we can't argue that what he said is inaccurate. Now, somebody commented and said, who even are you?
Somebody else said, hell no, that is such a disrespectful take. Opera, ballet, and theater are the original arts. It is the epitome of art. Like, but be so for real, people. Like, even out of context, even in that 15-second clip, that's not what he was saying.
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Chapter 2: What did Timothée Chalamet say about ballet and opera?
He was not saying that it is a lesser form of art. He's not saying that Marty Supreme is better than opera or ballet or theater. That's not even the point. However, because it's the internet, most people had only seen that 15-second clip. So now, let's look at what Timothy said in its entirety, and more importantly, the question that Matthew McConaughey asked him that prompted that response.
Act one, though. Okay. In this day of shorter attention spans and vertical 12-second spots, are we losing attention and patience for act ones? Because it's the first thing that gets cut. It's the first thing that a studio wants to get rid of. I'm seeing Act 2 more and more start on frickin' page 12.
I'm seeing series that, 10-part series that, bam, Act 1's over, 32 minutes into the opening episode, and you're off on the conflict right away. And I'm going, ah! It feels abbreviated to me. The logic used to be you save your big action set piece for the end of a movie, and you save the fireworks for the end, but now they want something up front.
I also think there's sort of a reverse thing going on, too, now. I don't want to speak for people here that are younger than me, where people desire or are desiring things that are more patient and that pull you in. I just saw another article that says Gen Z is a bigger movie-going audience than a millennial audience, you know? Grandpa's saying that.
And some people want to be entertaining quickly. I'm really right in the middle, Matthew, because I admire people and I've done it myself to go on a talk show and go, hey, we got to keep movie theaters alive. You know, we got to keep this genre alive. And another part of me feels like,
If people want to see it like Barbie, like Oppenheimer, they're gonna go see it and go out of their way to be loud and proud about it. And I don't want to be working in ballet or opera or things where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this thing. All right, so now you have seen the clip. And you know what, guys?
Instead of the internet obsessively trying to cancel this man with their insane out-of-proportion reaction, I actually think that everyone owes him a major thank you.
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Chapter 3: Why did Timothée Chalamet's comments spark outrage?
Because of him, people suddenly seem to care about opera and ballet again. Let's talk about it. Before we do, we also have tons of new subscribers over at Cooper Confidential, where you can see all of our farm vlogs and behind the scenes content. So if you want to join the party, go check it out. But I've been loving seeing the responses to all of those videos.
So thank you all for being here and being there. Now, what is so funny about this interview is, like I said in the introduction, it is over two weeks old, which in the time frame of the internet is like two millennia old at this Like, everybody has moved on.
And at the time that he and Matthew McConaughey did that interview, there were a few clips circulating about them working together on Interstellar, but this moment had not been posted or it had just not gotten any traction online. I guess, you know, with Iran and all the other stuff, Interstellar, there were too many things for people to be talking about and complaining about.
But I guess people got bored because it was not until, again, two weeks later, that this clip started doing the rounds. And now you need to look at the news, the mainstream news from the last 24 hours. People Magazine, CNN, Deadline, everybody is writing about this one minute, 30 second long interaction. And here's the thing.
I get that people in those fine art industries like opera and dance, I get that they might've been rubbed the wrong way by his comments. I mean, even at the end of the clip, Timothy himself was going like, oh, I kind of just took shots at these people, but you know, I was trying to make a point. But here's the thing. nothing Timothy said is inaccurate.
And now, as you all have seen by watching the entire clip, those comments from Timothy were part of a broader discussion about entertainment and what audiences at large want, which is something that we talk about on the show all the time. Like they want fast clippy things.
They want fast paced movies and TV shows where the story arc comes at you fast, where you're not having to wait and watch like 35 episodes before something interesting happens. They want soft, hardcore gay hockey porn. That's what audiences want.
They're barely going to movie theaters and they're certainly not choosing to go to the opera or ballet over just sitting on their couch in their cozy earth pajamas like I do and watching Netflix. Like, I'm sorry, but Timothy was simply being honest. He was being unfiltered for better or for worse and saying what I'm sure a lot of people in his industry in Hollywood would agree with.
which is they do not want to be fighting for their career and their art form in a dying industry, begging people to show up and scrounging for money to make their creative projects, which I'm sorry not to be offensive, but is what has been happening in opera and in ballet and in theater, to be honest. Like, Broadway is dying.
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Chapter 4: How is the internet reacting to Chalamet's statements?
that none of those angry anonymous commenters were actually watching the British acting and film awards to begin with. They just heard his outburst on X. They watched it at a TikTok and suddenly it was like their end all be all. It was racism. We had to fight it. When you guys were not watching the show to begin with, you didn't know anything about it. Same thing.
Guarantee the people angry commenting are not going and seeing the opera. What is happening here is everybody is bored online and they needed something to yell about. And yell they did, because now everyone and their mother is coming out of the woodwork, just like last week, to condemn this atrocity, including our friends over at CNN who quickly and unequivocally labeled it controversial.
Chapter 5: What are the implications of shorter attention spans on storytelling?
Somebody shared that video and said, It took CNN multiple attempts to not downplay Islamists throwing explosives, but they're crystal clear that not liking opera is controversial. Yes, bold journalism, bold stance. You just took CNN. Thank you so much for your work. Now, in one particular viral video that has now been added to this whole discourse online,
one ballet dancer, a male ballet dancer, came out to respond. And at first, I was kind of tracking what he was saying. I thought, okay, he's making some interesting points about the economy and high art being more expensive than movie tickets, so it's understandable why people aren't going. But then, because we're essentially back in 2020, dun-dun-dun, he had to make it about racism. Let's watch.
People still care about ballet and opera. It's just that the tickets for ballet and opera are just mad expensive. And they are mad expensive because it's high art. So a lot of people still care about it. Tickets for the movies that Timothy is in are cheap compared to Porgy and Bess and Swan Lake. And considering it's a high art, people come in their best outfits to come and see ballet.
Ain't nobody dressing up to go and see Wonka. It's equivalent to taking your girl on a date to Nobu or McDonald's. Ain't nobody putting on they best fit to go to McDonald's. Also, while we're here, let's talk about how you used black culture and you dressed up as Soulja Boy in 2006 to promote Marty Supreme. If we really want to take shots, we can really take shots. That's not even relevant.
It's literally not even relevant in the slightest. It was like, I just have to find something actually to be angry about. You appropriated my culture. By doing funny movie promotion, by doing outlandish, ridiculous things, which was essentially the basis of the entire Marty Supreme marketing campaign, that's not news. That's not actually taking shots.
That's just pulling something out of your ass to be mad about. What this man was saying would have been a perfectly appropriate response from a dancer, but then race just had to be included. But anyway, he makes a couple of other good points, so let's finish the video. When A.I. takes over or whatever, bro, they not, A.I. can't go on stage and give a beautiful performance like, like Swan Lake.
They could definitely do Marty Supreme though. I think in the next coming years, that perception of people not caring about ballet and opera will definitely change. All right, now here's the thing.
Regardless of all of the race stuff and that ridiculous, I do think that this dancer makes a good point about there possibly being a resurgence of high art, which by the way, the reason why I'm bringing this up is because that is what Timothy was trying to say. He He was saying that between millennials and Gen Z, there seems to be a transition. Gen Z is coming to movie theaters more.
They seem to care more about like good pacing and they have patience with these films. They're not just wanting to watch like cruddy streaming projects. And so he's excited about that and he wants that to continue. He doesn't have to be working in something like opera or ballet where these poor performers are literally begging people to come. Like that is what Timothy was saying.
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Chapter 6: Is there a resurgence of interest in ballet and opera due to Chalamet?
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In light of all of this outrage, now online, we have all of these ballet and opera companies responding as if Timothy is lying. Like they are trying to prove him wrong and say, no, we're actually not struggling. But again, literally based on the metrics, you are struggling. We can debate whether that is a good thing. I don't think it's a good thing, but you are in fact struggling.
But these are some of the posts that they've been putting up. And I don't want to be working in ballet or opera or, you know, things where it's like, hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this anymore. And again, I understand being protective of your art form and wanting to defend it.
And I'm sure with all of the Internet outrage, everybody is being told that they need to be angry. But in my personal and professional opinion, you know, this could have been a unique opportunity for these dancers, for these, you know, companies, these artistic companies to say, Yes, actually. You know what? He's kind of right. We are a dying art form.
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