Good morning, Much of what is wrong in the world today is encapsulated in a short exchange that takes place late in the ninth episode of The Offer, the brilliant story of the making of The Godfather, currently streaming on Paramount+. Here is the scene: One of the “suits” from Gulf & Western (the corporate owner of Paramount at the time) is pontificating about what the entertainment the public needed from the movies. To that executive, this meant producing short films, maximizing the number of screenings each day, avoiding films that lacked depth and instead going for spectacle. To his mind, the movies are escapist fare, the purpose of which is the generation of profits.
Simplistically, the people want fast food but need the balanced diet.