WINONA RYDER HAS CANDID THOUGHTS ON THE ENTERTAINMENT WORLD
In one way or another we have been talking about entertainment and its shifting and changing landscape. The culture of movies and TV shows shifts and moves and creates stories different as time goes on. This is likely something I have already discussed, but then some headline crops up and reinspires these questions. One question is why is storytelling floundering? Or at the very least it’s an industry that’s not as cool as it used to be. winona ryder entertainment
The headline that inspires this is an interview with Winona Ryder on entertainment. Star of many 90s films including Little Women in which she played Jo March, and Beetlejuice. She reprises her breakout role from the latter 80s mystery in the sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which, at the time, she was promoting. One such promotion involved an interview with Esquire in which Ryder bemoans the generational gap and the affect this has on filmmaking and telling stories.
In many ways, though I only have the perspective of a viewer, I do appreciate some of the things that modern cinema has. There’s no question there is a lot of good in how someone produces films now. But change also doesn’t have to come at the cost of losing heart and feeling in storytelling. When we lose this, we lose so much more than we gain.
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Ryder’s comments, in part, express frustration about co-stars. In the interview, the interviewer also points out how refreshing Winona Ryder is being a person who “isn’t trying to be younger than they are” and that she is not “plugged in” being a star who loves physical things (books, records) and isn’t on social media.
In her own words, Ryder goes on to say that she believes “social media has changed everything.” She’s so very right and in spite of her belief this makes her seem old, I think this is relatable across generations. It’s perhaps hard to hear because we think progress has to be good and while it is in many ways (like production), there’s also things that are lost in pursuit of “better.” winona ryder entertainment
“I just think that social media has changed everything, and I know I sound old. I’m very aware of that.”
– WInona Ryder
She also discusses how today the goal of teenagers is to get “likes” and popularity. I think this plays a large role in acting too. Rather than actors wanting to immerse in the art of telling a good story, it’s more about taking a “part” that will further their popularity and earn them social media clout. Talking more about female characters and actors, she discusses that women, of course, want lead roles, but that they “want to play complicated characters,” she says. “Nuanced. We don’t necessarily want to play strong. We want something to work with!”
Building on this, in a LA Times piece, the interviewer describes Ryder as being “frustrated” at the lack of curiosity of her “junior colleagues.” In a quote from the star, she says “I don’t mean to sound so hopeless. There are a few that are just not interested in movies.”
I think much of these Winona Ryder on entertainment conversations goes back to social media and this idea that fame there is above anything, even telling a good story. I’m not looking to revert to times of old, and Ryder detests the era of films I once loved. At the same time, I think these stars learning a little something from actors of another generation, would be a gift to filmmaking.
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