{"id":734,"date":"2006-03-05T23:37:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T04:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=734"},"modified":"2006-03-09T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2006-03-09T19:37:30","slug":"academy-pushing-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Academy Pushing Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who watched the Academy Awards, it was pretty hard not to get a sense that the Academy &#8211; and perhaps the movie industry in general &#8211; is finally realizing that what they&#8217;re really selling is an experience. I consider this both an interesting and important development because it points to some potential changes which may begin cascading into other areas (for reference and background &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=168\" target=\"blank\">Link 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=579\" target=\"blank\">Link 2<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Host Jon Stewart started off the show joking about film piracy and sharing his concern for the welfare of the diamond-encrusted audience. The audience&#8217;s response to this bit of humor was definitely on the chilly side. Obviously not everyone has gotten the memo. And even if they have, many probably don&#8217;t like the idea of what this potentially means to their bank account. Or to what they&#8217;ll need to do in the future to continue being compensated at the levels to which they&#8217;ve become accustomed.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe what they need to do next year is have <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Cuban\" target=\"blank\">Mark Cuban<\/a> show up as a surprise presenter because if they don&#8217;t re-orient their thinking and their business strategies soon, they&#8217;ll surely be left behind. As Stewart informed the audience, their kids are probably upstairs illegally downloading music. If they don&#8217;t care to watch the Academy Awards, they probably don&#8217;t care to wait around while a bunch of &#8220;old&#8221; people get their act together either.<\/p>\n<p>The orchestra is playing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For anyone who watched the Academy Awards, it was pretty hard not to get a sense that the Academy &#8211; and perhaps the movie industry in general &#8211; is finally realizing that what they&#8217;re really selling is an experience. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}