How can people possibly be defending Bob Iger?
Do they realize that in his tenure he has yet to approve a live-action movie that wasn't based on a past franchise or existing property? Do they realize he has mandated that everything in the theme parks (right down to restaurants!) be franchise based? Do they realize he has not allowed his company to create anything of its own this millenium, and instead is only interested in regurgitating things from the past. This is not a man who cares about art. This is not a man interested in creating something of value to the world and the people in it. In fact,this is not even a man who thinks of his customers as people at all.
No, this is a man who thinks of his customers as the dog who has the Pavlovian response to stimuli. He will parade to us a stream of characters, settings, properties, stories and music from our own nostalgia, none of which he helped to create, and he will expect us to drool over them. He is feeding us our own past and we are eating it. He's Hannibal Lector feeding a patient his (the patient's) own brain. It's insulting. The condescension he has for his own audience drips from him like mud off the Swamp Thing.
I get the impression Bob Iger hates theme parks and actively thinks television and movies are beneath him. I get the impression he think the masses are easily gullible and he has snake oil. He certainly doesn't seem to have an artistic bone in his body. And yet people are defending this man to be the lead of an artistic company?
