SimonT wrote:
Hopefully, someday soon, film makers and TV production companies will start realising that the noisy people who want to keep pushing certain political ideals into films aren't representative of the people who actually pay to see them and will start producing stuff that the public want. But we'll see on that front.
Money will decide the entertainment industry. It always does. Bombs like that ghostbusters and the latest charlie's angels reboot prove that you can't rely solely on political ideals to move your product, and in the end, you are either making money with your tactics or you are not. The tactics will adjust to the market and it will all work out.
The REAL problem is "opinion" and "news" bits. Mouse clicks from fans or haters all count the same and the higher the count, the more advertising dollars are made. Both sides of the political isle figured out long ago that "wild and crazy" sells and brings BOTH the haters and loyalists to your site/channel. Cool and calm brings no one. So the divisive extreme crazy garbage like this article won't be going away anytime soon. Damn shame.
As for the article itself, this forced melding of topics reminds me a lot of a paper I wrote in college, although VERY different subject and degrees of silliness. The subject was Dr. Jekyle and Mr. Hyde and its impact as a theme in film. That was boring to me, so I used the film "Army of Darkness" as my starting point and just mashed in the J &H themes. I thought I did a good mashup job and made it work while having fun writing it. Professor not so impressed... C+. This person just did a more extreme version of the same. They started with a virtue signaling topic they wanted, then mashed the round pegs into square holes. They probably pulled some muscles stretching that hard hoping to be profound. Poor form.