"Thanks to a combination of outbursts and indiscriminate legal threats, the powerful figures at the centre of a rapidly consolidating industry find themselves with little option but to bend to the president's every demand. Unfortunately, what he's demanding is Rush Hour 4. Just a few days ago, this seemed like a weird overreach, like when Trump used a keynote speech at a McDonald's to demand more tartare sauce on Filet-O-Fish sandwiches."
"The problem with this, of course, is that Trump has famously awful taste in movies. You know this already. What sort of figure can look out across the entire spectrum of cinema and decide that the thing that most deserves to be made is the third sequel to Rush Hour, starring a septuagenarian Jackie Chan? Was there even a third Rush Hour film?"
Donald Trump has exerted coercive influence over media executives through outbursts and legal threats, pressuring them to meet his demands. He demanded a Rush Hour 4, reportedly telling Larry Ellison he wished someone would make the film, and Paramount Skydance has begun producing it. The president's intervention now shapes which films are greenlit. Trump displays consistently poor cinematic taste, favoring violent or simplistic entertainment such as Bloodsport and skipping exposition to watch fights. He misreads classics like Citizen Kane, focusing on superficial changes rather than themes of isolation and wealth. Political pressure is thus reshaping creative decisions and priorities in Hollywood.
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