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But something that REALLY amused me is that... almost every other movie or television show that I've seen recently that has been ABOUT filmmaking, storytelling, making music, and/or putting on a show... has at some point paused briefly to pontificate about the importance of telling stories, about how art is meaningful to people, and about how "inspiring people" is perhaps The Most Noble Calling in the world.

I'm not sure any character in "The Producers" cared about that. The closest you get is maybe the director, who appeared to be honestly primarily motivated by fame and Tony Awards, and also the playwright who was... let's say largely "politically motivated". These terrible people all primarily wanted to be rich, famous, rich, celebrated, rich, and maybe also able to freely sexually harrass beautiful women.