How Social Media is Changing Movies — and Their Place in Society

Offline with Jon Favreau

Crooked Media

Society & Culture, News

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Maia Wyman, or Broey Deschanel as she’s known on Youtube, joins Offline to talk about her generation of movie critics and influencers—spoiler alert, they’re not the same! Her nuanced video essays break down films, analyzing everything from the political themes of Parasite to why Barbie had to spoon-feed feminism to its audience. But for every voice like Maia’s, there are many others who don’t leverage the social web so much as indulge it. Guest host Max Fisher talks with Maia about how the internet is changing movies for better or worse, what it means for our culture, and how we see it playing out in this summer’s big releases.

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0:00.0	films that are able to reflect our culture back to us in ways that make us shift in our seats and
0:05.0	make us think about morality in ways that we hadn't necessarily thought of or bring up parts of
0:10.0	ourselves that maybe are a bit uglier but are there and like if we ignore them I think it gets
0:14.8	it's worse I think that is such a fundamental aspect of all art forms so to not be comfortable
0:21.4	with discomfort in movies I think is a little alarming these days like I think I think it kind
0:26.4	of frightens me and I know we've been there before it's not the first time like but it is a little
0:30.4	scary to be in this current moment hey everyone I'm Max Fisher sitting in for John this week with
0:41.9	something everyone in ring you for a while the way that we talk about movies is changing it's
0:46.9	changing a lot and it's changing thanks to the internet we rate and review movies on sites like
0:52.4	Rotten Tomatoes and Letterbox we discuss them on Twitter and we watch videos about them on YouTube
0:58.0	and TikTok where a new kind of movie criticism or maybe it's fandom reaches tens of millions of
1:03.6	people every day I think this is a really big deal movies are a big part of how we collectively
1:09.8	process our history like with Oppenheimer or think through the issues that we face as a society
1:15.3	like the feminism and gender relations portrayed in Barbie they shape how we think about good and
1:20.0	evil heroes and villains and that used to be guided by newspaper critics but now it's
1:25.6	dominated by social media which is transforming I believe not just movie culture but as a result
1:31.2	our culture more broadly my you why men is part of that transformation on YouTube she makes videos
1:37.6	under the name Broey Deschanel in one she explores the political themes behind parasite the 2019
1:44.0	South Korean thriller that won best picture another looks at why audiences in the early 2010s got
1:49.7	briefly obsessed with sleazy sex filled indie films like spring breakers which is one of my
1:54.6	favorites her essays are fun and they're smart and they reach a lot of people but for every voice
1:59.8	like my ears there are a lot of others who don't leverage the social web so much as indulgent
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