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Yesterday I watched Margin Call, which is a movie from 2011 about a Goldman Sachs-like finance company that sees the writing on the wall at the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis. I love watching tense lil financial movies even though I don't ever have a dang bit of a clue what's going on or what people are talking about. One of the amazing things about Margin Call is that it seems to be made specifically for people like me because every time Zachary Quinto, who is a risk assessment analyst (or something), starts to explain what's happening one of his bosses is always like "you know I'm too important to understand this stuff. Explain it to me like I'm a child." The movie is literally like "Gurl, we both know you're sitting on your couch with your little liberal arts background and you didn't turn on this flick to do homework, you turned on this flick to see Stanley Tucci give a nice lil speech. Let's not play around." This is quality and insightful film-making.
I had never seen Margin Call but it came up on Netflix and I immediately thought "Oh! This is a Michael Clayton Movie!" and I was sold. Michael Clayton Movies are a genre of movie that exist only inside my head. Michael Clayton and Margin Call aren't really similar at all. But, they are both tense movies about Tense Business People talking about A Business I Do Not Understand. They both have desaturated color palettes. And they both featured Characters Actors Showing Up and Doing a Little Acting Twirl, which is one of my favorite things. Michael Clayton Movies is a classification that's more about vibe than content, although I will say that Michael Clayton Movies are usually about bad people breaking a bad system. There's a thematic resonance even if they're completely different kinds of movies.
Michael Clayton Movies usually have a lot of people in business suits and very few guns if any. I don't think you're really supposed to root for anybody in a Michael Clayton Movie but you usually end up hoping that one of the less bad characters comes out on top. It's nice!
Another thing about Michael Clayton Movies is that usually when they start off I think "Oh, I'm gonna be a little bored." But then it turns out I am not! Other Michael Clayton Movies I enjoy: Arbitrage, Boiler Room, The Insider, The Firm. Technically, The Firm is a John Grisham Movie, which is a different kind of movie, but if it wasn't a John Grisham Movie, it would be a Michael Clayton Movie.
It's important to note that many other movies about financial crimes and crisis aren't Michael Clayton Movies. For instance, I think of The Big Short, Moneyball, and maybe The Wolf of Wall Street as part of a genre I call Ocean's Eleven Movies. The big difference being they're not about bad people breaking the system, they're about people in a grey area gaming the system. Inside Man is also an Ocean's Eleven Movie, in my opinion, even though there are more guns in it than this kind of movie usually has.
I've noticed that some films that Jessica Chastain does start off as Michael Clayton Movies and become Ocean's Eleven Movies. This is remarkable to me but I do not know what it means. If anyone has Jessica Chastain's email address, please ask her.
One time, in college, I applied to work at a video store that opened on Broadway at 114th, in the lobby of one of Columbia's dorms. In my interview, they asked me if I had any special area of film expertise. I said "I have an in-depth knowledge of the work of Jane Fonda." Which isn't even true. Like, why would I say that? I liked 9 to 5 and On Golden Pond and suddenly I'm a Fonda scholar? Now, I don't know that I would have had more success at the job had I launched into my fickle and niche system for classifying thrillers (we haven't even gotten to my thoughts about movies with more guns than legal documents. Sheesh!) Anyway, I got the job, spent two days organizing videotapes, then had to quit because I dropped out of college and I wasn't certain that a part-time video store job where I pretended to have seen Klute was going to be able to support me.
But times they are a-changed! I have seen Klute and I have a whole complex system for describing the vibe of a movie I want to see, which may or may not be useful in finding other movies to watch but is useful for reminding you of the movies you already saw and liked. The name of my video store will be Hey, Do You Want to Watch Michael Clayton?
Hi everyone, I hopped you could hep me. I have an issue with Safari. When I watch Netflix and go full screen the image is cropped (zoomed in). It only Happens with Netflix and only with the newest version of safari. Anyone as the same issue ?
I had this problem too. I haven't find any solution, so I made one, unit somebody will fix this. I am using app called Cascadea, which is injecting CSS to Netflix website, which can solve the issue.
Or just use the green button on Safari to enter full screen. HOWEVER, it leaves the Tab bar and Address bar visible! Netflix on Chrome will neatly show full screen without this issue. I am pretty sure it's a bug with Safari, not Netflix.
I have latest 2023 Macbook Pro with Sonoma, HMDI'ed with Dell 27" S2721NX. Using Safari to watch Netflix, I hit the button "F" to play full screen, it crops but when I use Chrome, it doesn't. Something Chrome has that Safari doesn't?
LOS GATOS, Calif., Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Netflix Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) said today its members instantly watched more than two billion hours of TV shows and movies streaming from Netflix in the fourth quarter of 2011.
With more than 20 million streaming members globally, Netflix has revolutionized entertainment by allowing people to enjoy TV shows and movies when, where and how they want with a click of a remote, mouse or the touch of a screen.
"We were thrilled to deliver more than two billion hours of TV shows and movies across 45 countries in the fourth quarter," said Netflix Co-Founder and CEO Reed Hastings. "Netflix delights members by giving them choice, convenience and control over the entertainment they love for an incredibly low price."
Throughout 2011, Netflix continued to add to its already expansive variety of TV shows and movies in the United States, signing new multi-year agreements with CBS, Twentieth Century Fox, Lionsgate, Miramax, Open Road Films, NBCUniversal, Dreamworks Animation, MGM and the Disney-ABC Television Group among others, and announcing the creation of the highly-anticipated Netflix original series "House of Cards," a gripping political thriller from Executive Producer David Fincher and starring two-time Academy Award winning actor Kevin Spacey.
Another Netflix original, "Lilyhammer," starring Steven Van Zandt of "The Sopranos" and Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, as a New York gangster in Norway, premieres on Netflix in the U.S., Canada and Latin America on February 6.
"In the coming months, Netflix members can enjoy complete seasons of great TV series from all the major networks and most branded cable channels as well as fantastic films like Drive, Hugo, Captain America and Margin Call," said Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos. "The more great TV shows and movies Netflix adds, the more people watch."
With more than 20 million streaming members in the United States, Canada and Latin America, Netflix, Inc. [Nasdaq: NFLX] is the world's leading Internet subscription service for enjoying movies and TV shows. For about US $7.99 a month, Netflix members can instantly watch unlimited movies and TV episodes streaming over the Internet to PCs, Macs and TVs. Among the large and expanding base of devices streaming from Netflix are the Microsoft Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Sony PS3 consoles; an array of Blu-ray disc players, Internet-connected TVs, home theater systems, digital video recorders and Internet video players; Apple iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, as well as Apple TV and Google TV. In all, more than 700 devices that stream from Netflix are available. For additional information, visit www.netflix.com. Follow Netflix on Facebook and Twitter.
Games may feel like a stretch, but recall that in January 2007, Netflix launched three hundred mediocre streaming titles to complement its DVD by mail service. Today, the company is an original content powerhouse and is one of the biggest studios in the world. These step-function innovations take time.
Below is a sample roadmap. I completed this exercise to illustrate how to transform the SMT framework into a rolling, four-quarter roadmap to tell a story of how each strategy might play out over time:
Netflix released its Q1 2022 earnings detailing a loss of 200,000 customers against a forecast of 2.2M new subscribers. It was the first quarter in ten years with no growth. Worse, Netflix forecasted a 2 million subscriber loss in Q2.
Performance in India is below par. Netflix lowered prices in India and is still working to understand how to compete there. Compared to the US, where households pay $100/month for cable TV, cable TV costs $3/month in India. The value equation for streaming services in India is very different from the US.
In 2005 Netflix struggled to deliver profits with its DVD by mail service and launched an advertising business to try to generate profits. They displayed ad banners on the site and printed ads on their DVD envelopes. They even executed an A/B test to see if there was a negative impact. The surprise: no retention impact. And for three years, advertising delivered meaningful profits.
Like advertising, Netflix believes that it will take a year to figure out the best approach. Netflix also acknowledged that account sharing exists because of their customer-friendly policy; they made it easy for members to set up multiple profiles and watch many movies simultaneously. It will take a while to reset expectations for account sharing among Netflix members.
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