Thanks for your words on this thread. From my interactions at the fringes of the movie industry, I think you articulate exactly how contemporary Hollywood operates.
It's interesting that Walsh seems completely unknowledgable about and even uninterested in the economy of Hollywood. (Maybe, Marv, it's not just the masses who need education!) Which on one level is fine, I guess, but then his call for more "socially conscious" filmmaking is vacuous because he doesn't take into account how difficult Hollywood's productive arrangements make that. (Sorry, thunderous phrases like "corporate control" do not count as a critique of political economy.) Instead he thinks what's needed is deeper commitment, stronger will, and better consciousness. Those things apparently are enough to overcome the relations that produce the movie commodity. No politics are needed.