I have never read such an article based on such a false premise from the far left. The New York Times Over the weekend, he tweeted, “Hollywood’s message to Republican states: Our movies are for you.”
“Hollywood seems to have missed an opportunity to sound the alarm about climate change for nearly two decades now.” Reports of Times. “So we focused on the weather. Twister A report received from Universal Pictures this month makes no mention of climate change at all.” Read more…
Picking a cinematic trend is a dangerous business; sometimes a movie is just a movie. But “Twisters” represents a clear shift in Hollywood. After periods when films that openly espoused progressive values have been box-office successes (“Barbie”) and periods when they haven’t (“Strange World,” “The Marvels,” “The Color Purple,” “Dark Waters”), studios seem to be heeding a message that many ticket buyers, especially in the country’s heartland, have long been telling us: We just want to be entertained, no homework required.
And the lies continue: “Plainly speaking, this is tantamount to Hollywood’s attempt to kowtow to audiences in Republican states.”
What on earth are they talking about?
Sure, this silly media isn’t wrong in that movies are finally becoming less political, which translates to box office success, while woke movies fail almost 100 percent of the time. If only studios understood this message after ruining so many Golden Geese franchises. No one goes to the movies to be insulted or scolded. There’s nothing wrong with exploring big ideas in movies, but this should be done with art, themes, and subtext, not divisive lectures. Movies are about story, and the moment you break the magic of storytelling, you’ve failed as a filmmaker.
Now let’s talk about dim light bulbs. The New York TimesTerribly, terribly, stupidly wrong…
The urban left hates woke movies just as much as the rest of us pathetic mortals. How do we know? Let’s use the science of math…?
About 66 million people voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016. All it would take is for about a third of those voters to show up and buy a ticket for the movie to make $200 million at the domestic box office.
that’s it.
In a country where some 66 million people voted for Hillary Clinton, Hollywood doesn’t need a single Republican customer to make a profit. Hollywood’s problem isn’t that Republicans refuse to pay for this woke trash, it’s that even Hollywood’s own leftists have no interest in paying for this woke trash.
If Hollywood made movies solely to appeal to Hillary voters, i.e. Democrats, that demographic would be large enough to churn out hit movie after hit movie. Add in their kids, and you’d have blockbuster movie after blockbuster movie.
What The New York Times What we cannot face is this fact: no one I want to see this crap. no one— and that includes people from their own tribes.
We are all human, wired to ask only two things of a storyteller: 1) to cast a spell, and 2) not to break that spell.
It’s part of the universal human condition.
So wokeness, while hitting the left’s sweet spot, violates rule number two: the left may appreciate Hollywood propaganda, but they’re still not going to pay for it with their time or money.
So it’s a lie to say that Hollywood is catering its latest releases to Republican audiences. All it’s doing is eliminating the “woke” behavior that everyone hates. And as the math proves, it’s catering to Republican audiences. everyone.
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