The movement towards CGI in film, while pioneered by studios such as LucasArts and Lightstorm, has mostly been driven by the ability to reduce movie insurance costs for actors and crew. When James Cameron especially pioneered CGI in film for Titanic, he saw CGI as a way to enhance physical props, models, and locations, bringing a physically shot scene alive with details. George Lucas, on the other-hand, saw a potential to create from whole-cloth entire worlds of imagination rendered entirely digitally. Insurance companies, on the other hand, saw the potential to completely reduce liability for physical shots. Why use a blank that can kill someone (cough Alec Baldwin cough) when you can use a digitally rendered blast. It’s why a big part of Christmanism is looking for a comeback of squibs, to fight against the base of capitalism.

However, while it begins as a conscious move from the base it becomes an unconscious move because eventually this mentality begins to seep into everything, as people are trained with these new techniques, old ones are forgotten, which influences what stories are told and how they are told. And it’s not always all bad. Suddenly everyone was obsessed with multiverse theory in film because we could use these now well understood and widely taught CGI techniques to create these different spaces more affordably and ‘real’ than actual physical spaces ever could, which also converged with everyone feeling like everything is getting shittier from the base and attempting to imagine a better world, this reflecting the sentiment of the base in the superstructure, using techniques created by the base that had seeped into the superstructure.

It’s all very cool, very nerdy stuff.