Musical director Larry Charles criticizes big-budget films – The Hollywood Reporter

Dicks: The Musical Director Larry Charles reveals why he avoids big-budget blockbusters.

On Thursday in the program WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Borate The director, who prefers to put his energy into indie films and TV shows, criticized the current Hollywood system.

“I try to do things like Dangerous comedy or this movie(Dicks: The Musical) — this film is very low-budget,” Charles said. “I find it politically and ethically offensive that movies cost $250 million and the world is in the state it is in. So I also want to make a statement about how these things are made.”

Charles has seen comedy and media travel around the world during his travels through the four-part Netflix docuseries. The Dangerous World of Comedy by Larry CharlesThat’s why he is particularly critical of what he called the “media monopoly system” in the United States.

“Kind of like an authoritarian big brother thing that we… they’ve learned over the years, they don’t need to force you, they don’t need to scare you, they need to seduce you,” said Seinfeld said the producer. “So we’re all seduced by great TV shows and great movies, and we get distracted by those things, and then we give ourselves over to the same capitalist system, and there’s no way for it to change while we’re doing it. … I’m struggling with this.”

But Curb your enthusiasm The director-producer is grateful that he found a way to do his “radical work,” although the current industry climate and ever-changing media landscape continue to make it difficult.

“I can do a radical piece of work by saying I can do it for little money, and the way (producers and directors) say yes is because they think, ‘Oh, this radical little piece of work that won’t not worth a penny.” any money will bring money.” Absolutely. That’s the system,” Charles explained.

He continued: “I couldn’t, I was doing something on YouTube, I was trying to find a way to get out of it, get away from it. It’s very, very difficult to do. Because someone owns YouTube, someone owns Instagram. Everything, you know, it’s very difficult to express your word, your thought.”

Charles’ latest project, A24. Dicks: The Musicalwhich stars Josh Sharp, Aaron Jackson, Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Megan Thee Stallion and Bowen Young, is currently in theaters.