How should entertainment writing be regulated?
Director Quentin Tarantino attends the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday. His"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" has become a flash point in the debate over free expression and social media. By Steven Zeitchik Steven Zeitchik Reporter covering the business of entertainment in the U.S. and beyond Email Bio Follow May 22 at 4:18 PM It began with a few sentences from Quentin Tarantino.
Content creators have lately been upping their efforts to restrain what critics and consumers say about their movies online, particularly when it comes to so-called spoilers, plot revelations about new movies and TV shows. Many journalists have resisted, saying these efforts undermine open discourse.
It is the perfect digital-age contretemps: the fire that breaks out when an abundance of information sparks with the attempts to control it. The gasoline of social media then sends the flames higher. “I do find it convenient and suspicious that corporations have taken such an interest in spoiler prevention at a time when the ‘theatrical window’ has been shrinking to the size of a gnat’s wingspan,” Zoller Seitz told The Washington Post, using the term for a movie’s prime moneymaking period.
At least in traditional pieces, some stories come with warnings. But even that text is glossed over by many readers. And some writers worry the intense reactions could lead to self-censorship. “On social media everything is of the moment. But people don’t buy tickets to a film or watch a TV show that way — they watch it when they’re ready,” he said in an interview. “So there’s often a disconnect between where a conversation is and where we are in your viewing.”
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