In Matt Damon’s new Netflix thriller, “The Rip,” a bunch of cops and crooks fight over a $20 million cash stash.
Making the movie required fighting for an even more precious commodity: the viewer’s ever-dwindling attention span.
‘It wouldn’t be terrible if you reiterated the plot three or four times.’
Appearing with long-time friend and co-star Ben Affleck on the “Joe Rogan Experience” last week, Damon revealed what his first collaboration with a streamer taught him about the new economics of the movie biz — and how it affects storytelling.
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Damon said that the “different level of attention” audiences are giving at home has started to affect how films are being made.
“Like, for instance, Netflix. The standard way to make an action movie that we learned was,
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