nancipants
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- Nov 18, 2013
Exactly. There is nothing wrong with entertainment knowing its audience, but you cannot make an extremely successful movie if you only make it for one particular demographic. People joke about teenage girls going to see Titanic multiple times, but there's a reason that movie made so much money - EVERYONE saw it. Same with the original Star Wars (and Phantom Menace and Force Awakens), Avatar, Infinity War and Endgame. Black Panther was wildly successful because it attracted the regular MCU viewers as well audiences who never saw a Marvel movie before.Greta Gerwig made the following comment in a New York Times interview: "...my brother and his sons and his wife all went in Sacramento and sent a picture, then they sent a text saying their oldest son was going back the next day with his friends. These 15- or 16-year-old boys from Sacramento are sending me texts saying, 'It was great! We loved the Porsche joke!' Those are the things that feel so amazing. I’ve never quite had anything like this."
Are "Barbie" theaters filled with teenage boys? Of course not. But from all reports Gerwig has clearly made a film that appeals to a much wider audience than one might have expected from a movie about a child's toy, and one aimed primarily at girls.
I honestly don't think Star Wars will experience that type of viewership with movies anymore. I think The Mandalorian reached it because of it being the first Disney + show and about a totally new character, but the shows are starting to suffer the same as the movies - there's too much content and it turns off "regular" viewers. (The MCU seems to be going the same way.)