00:00:48.000And now it seems as though things are off the rails.1.00
00:00:52.000You know, hiring that feminist Unitarian Universalist to direct one of the most important pieces of Christian IP, particularly for kids of like literally all time, that was a stupid idea.0.99
00:01:01.000I know what those executives were doing.0.98
00:01:04.000They're literally sitting there like, hey, Greta Garwood's famous.
00:01:51.000Co CEO Ted Serendos admitted the company is not growing as fast as I want us to.
00:01:54.000He's pointing toward live programming as a potential growth driver.
00:01:57.000But Netflix fired a man named Dan Lin, who is the chief content officer.
00:02:02.000Here's what Variety is reporting Everyone is collateral damage.
00:02:06.000That's how one top Netflix insider summarized another bloody Monday at the streamer, which saw Dan Lin ousted as the company's head of film.
00:02:13.000Following last week's 6% workforce reduction in Netflix, Which claimed victims, including Chief Content Officer Bella Baharia and Lynn's right hand, Doug Belgrad, consensus said it was a matter of time before co CEO Ted Serendos would show Lynn the door, and it took one day.
00:02:31.000Four sources with knowledge of the matter said that indeed, Lynn and Greta Gerwig had a falling out during a Zoom call about Narnia earlier this year.
00:02:40.000On a virtual meeting populated by numerous Netflix executives, Lynn is said to have been dismissive to the director in conversation about the progress of the film.
00:02:48.000Lynn is known to be incredibly fair, but at times obtuse in his frankness.
00:02:53.000The meeting had gone south, at which point, sources said Baharia called at Gerwig's producer, Amy Pascal, to smooth things over.
00:02:58.000Two sources also said Gerwig's new, all powerful CAA agent, Brian Lord, went to Serenzos directly over the faux pas, and Lynn was subsequently disappeared from the film.
00:03:06.000So it sounds like Lynn was actually resistant to Greta Gerwig turning Netflix into an abomination.
00:03:13.000The news gets worse for Netflix on the Narnia abomination.
00:03:18.000This is the Netflix Narnia trailer that involves the transing of Aslan.
00:03:24.000Now, woman voices Aslan, who's the Jesus character in the Narnia books, and also turned the entire thing into a glam rock 1970s spectacle.
00:03:34.000According to geeks and gamers, Netflix may have a $280 million problem on its hands.
00:03:38.000Just one day after Greta Gerwig's controversial Narnia, the Magician's Nephew trailer debuted, a new insider report alleges that the expensive fantasy adaptation has been plagued by disappointing test screenings, additional filming, and growing tensions behind the scenes.
00:03:52.000One source reportedly described the film as awful.
00:03:55.000Another characterized the situation as a genuine problem.
00:03:58.000According to World of Reels October 14th report, an individual who attended the screening compared Gerwig's film to Disney's notorious 2018 fantasy adaptation, A Wrinkle in Time.
00:04:07.000Now, everybody knew this was going to happen who had a brain or who was even Christian familiar.
00:04:16.000See, here's the thing Greta Gerwig is kind of Christian curious, but that does not make her a Christian.
00:04:21.000She is not someone who, at a deep and fundamental level, agrees with the philosophy of C.S. Lewis.
00:04:26.000So she'll say she appreciates Catholicism, but then she says that she likes the Virgin Mary because it connects with pagan energy and she doesn't like the God the Father thing.
00:04:36.000So she speaks religion as a foreign language, which, when you're adapting one of the great IPs of Christian literature in the 20th century, you probably want someone who actually agrees with the general direction of the IP.
00:04:51.000Here's Greta Gerwig being asked by Stephen Colbert about how her faith informs her work.
00:04:54.000Let's just say this is something that I would say Christian believers don't tend to say.
00:05:01.000How does faith influence your work?0.84
00:05:05.000Well, I think it's been a threat through all of my work, and as you said before, we met through Lady Bird.
00:05:13.000Lady Bird was my taking my experience of going to Catholic school and how that shaped me and who I was and kind of transformed my understanding of the world.
00:05:24.000I think that it's something that for me, film and faith have always gone hand in hand.
00:05:33.000I think growing up, going to church, singing in the choir, it was a place where.
00:05:37.000People gathered together to experience something, the very act of making a film is an act of faith in and of itself.
00:05:49.000How's the act of making a film an act of faith in and of itself?
00:05:50.000It kind of depends on the contents of the film, no?
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00:06:47.000So just going to point out every single human who is of Judeo Christian religious bent knew anybody's a fan of C.S. Lewis, and I am a massive fan of C.S. Lewis.
00:06:57.000I own a signed copy of the screw tape letters.
00:06:59.000I'm like the biggest fan of C.S. Lewis there is.
00:07:02.000Anybody who's a fan of C.S. Lewis knew this was going to be a disaster.
00:07:05.000Here is how Hollywood thinks because they are just, they speak Christianity or conservatism or biblical values as a foreign language.
00:07:13.000They don't know anyone who lives in that world, truly.
00:07:15.000And so they thought, hey, Famous IP, Narnia.
00:07:19.000Famous director from Barbie, Greta Gerwig.
00:09:03.000I don't reread books very often because I have a good memory for books.
00:09:06.000I've read East of Eden three, four times.
00:09:08.000My wife's favorite book is East of Eden.
00:09:10.000So if you're talking about like core audience, core, core audience for a new production of East of Eden, which has been decades in the making, the last East of Eden project was made by Elia Kazan back in the 50s and it starred James Dean.
00:09:24.000Okay, so the new East of Eden project is supposed to be taking the entirety of the book.
00:09:28.000Now, they give it to Zoe Kazan, who's Elia Kazan's granddaughter.0.87
00:09:33.000And the entire premise of East of Eden, not to get into literary abstruseness here, the entire base of East of Eden, for those who have not read the book, the villain of the piece is a woman called Kathy.
00:09:45.000Kathy is described basically as the snake in the garden.0.98
00:10:43.000And Kathy, who in the book is a murderess and an adulteress and a prostitute, and she's the, maybe the worst character in all of literature.
00:10:54.000She's the narrator explaining that life is complex and morality is complex.0.80
00:10:58.000And by episode two, you're learning the reason that Kathy is so evil is because, wait for it, she was molested as a child.
00:11:06.000Because it turns out that if you just take classic IP and you turn it inside out in favor of a modernistic reframing, A feminist reframing of East of Eden, you end up with something that doesn't look like East of Eden.
00:11:17.000And so my wife and I, who are like core audience of East of Eden, we are out by episode two.
00:11:41.000You can't read East of Eden without having read the first.
00:11:44.000Four chapters, I would say, of the book of Genesis.
00:11:47.000You must, in order to understand even what's going on in East of Eden.
00:11:51.000Okay, but none of these people have, and they don't know anyone who has.0.88
00:11:54.000And so it's like, hey, just take this IP, throw it at somebody who doesn't know their ass from their elbow on this sort of stuff, and it'll be fine.0.94
00:12:01.000It's a gigantic blind spot, and the gigantic blind spot is poisoning them.0.96
00:12:27.000Now, I can tell you, I mean, as a person with a very large podcast on the right, there are a lot of people on the right who have fairly large outlets.
00:12:35.000Netflix is not talking with any of them because they're so afraid of alienating their left wing employees that they end up making a bunch of left wing junk just by default.
00:12:44.000And so Netflix has basically become cable television of 2004 100 channels and nothing to watch.
00:12:49.000And that is why they are failing right now.
00:12:52.000When you go over to your local cell phone provider, what they will do is they will offer you a smorgasbord of options, tons of different options.
00:12:58.000And they all seem really interesting and cool.
00:12:59.000And then you get really bored and you're like, oh my God, this is taking forever.
00:13:02.000And then you just buy whichever one gives you unlimited data and you spend too much for that thing.
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00:14:42.000I'm going to talk about what properties in Netflix performed the best this year.
00:14:46.000So, their number one movie was a movie titled War Machine, which is basically just a sci fi shoot em up because it turns out people are fine with apolitical sci fi shoot em ups.
00:14:55.000And then The Rip, which was the Ben Affleck, Matt Damon wildly overrated crime movie.
00:14:59.000It could have been so much better, but it's essentially apolitical.
00:15:03.000Again, that movie did very well for them.
00:15:11.000And then their next biggest thing was Apex, which was essentially just a horror thriller with Charlize Theron.
00:15:17.000And again, these are all sort of like basic mainstream normie pieces of entertainment.
00:15:23.000But they keep pouring money into all of these sort of quasi woke material or wokeifying existing IP.
00:15:30.000And it's the latter thing, by the way, that's so much more insulting.
00:15:33.000Wokeifying existing IP is so much worse than just coming up with new.0.99
00:15:36.000Like, below is a little bit offensive in the sense that it's stupid.0.90
00:15:40.000But what they do to Narnia here is like the most offensive.0.98
00:15:43.000Again, taking treasured IP and then robbing it of its actual meaning because he had a big name director and then firing executives who point out that it sucks, that is a great way to destroy yourself.
00:15:52.000Now, it may be that some other studios are beginning to get the picture over here.
00:15:57.000So, Paramount Plus, for example, Paramount Plus is orienting itself in a bit of a different direction from every available rumor.
00:16:03.000Obviously, they picked up Tyler Sheridan, who's sort of known as a blue state writer for red state Americans.
00:16:09.000And so many of his shows will have kind of these monologues that kind of trend right because Tyler Sheridan has met a conservative once or twice.
00:16:17.000The people at Netflix apparently are totally incompetent at this.
00:16:20.000And so they seem to be aiming over and over at the same Bridgerton crowd.
00:16:23.000Bridgerton, of course, is the famous show in which all of the women and men of the pre Victorian age are of color in Britain.
00:16:37.000But when you look at the stuff that's actually succeeding, it seems to be pretty much all the action flicks, all of the sort of mainstream normie entertainment.
00:16:47.000That's not the stuff that gets the press, though.
00:16:49.000And I have to say that very often what you see in a lot of these arenas is the stuff that gets the press, is the stuff that the producers like to keep producing.
00:16:56.000It's the stuff that the executives like to keep approving.
00:16:58.000Listen, we're happy to pick up the pieces here at Daily Wire.
00:17:01.000I mean, we are more than happy to provide competition.
00:17:04.000Honestly, the entertainment slate that we are bringing out and that we have brought out over the course of this year, right?1.00
00:17:10.000Run, hide, fight, infidels, and then confession, and we have much more, much, much more coming over the course of the year, is just better.0.95
00:17:16.000It is legitimately better than a studio like Netflix that is spending billions of dollars on their content.0.97
00:17:45.000So, according to Fox and Outkick, WNBA players left the court for the national anthem for the second time during the finals.
00:17:52.000They're bound and determined to destroy whatever goodwill they have with the American public.
00:17:56.000The Atlanta Dream and Golden State Valkyries were off the court for the national anthem before game two of the WNBA finals on Monday night.
00:18:03.000Repeating their game one absences, despite a provision in the league's own rulebook calling for players to stand and line up during the performance.
00:18:10.000Just like in game one, the teams left the floor less than one minute before the start of the anthem and returned mere seconds after the singer sang the final note.
00:18:18.000So they literally just left for the anthem.
00:18:21.000Now, that's against the WNBA rulebook, but here's what it looked like.0.52
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