Hollywood was founded by a pure showman who was enthusiastic about providing what he wanted to the audience and has been in operation for generations. rice field. Today's Hollywood message is, "We will entertain you! But first, a brief lecture on what's wrong with you, the audience ..."
Artists and entertainment Companies have always longed to be taken seriously. That's why the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Oscar was originally a box office giant. I went to — Shiny romantic drama and overwhelming historical epic. After that, the movie industry was divided into "award photo" and "audience photo". Over the last few years, audience photo Even, it's starting to fill up with reminders about racial discrimination, feminism, immigration, etc. These are important issues, but people mainly go to movies to escape.
"Top One of the reasons Gun: Maverick was so successful wasTom Cruise's career's biggest movie, and probably the biggest movie of the year.-World Issues. "TG: M" Is just for entertaining, not for convincing you that the people who made it are good.
Meanwhile, Disney's popular "Light Year" has arrived, andis after many talks of the release week about lesbian relationships in the movie. , Surprisingly inadequate. Same-sex marriage is only part of the story, and even children's movies don't bother with the presence of gay people, but with shockingly low performance. Well, it must have made Disney wonder if people were away because they thought it was wrong) that "light year" was a message movie.
Disney's decision to spend a few minutes of screen time is gay A friendly company could have spent millions of dollars selling tickets, although it was supposed to be the annual Pixar Megablock Buster. Disney should take into account the idea that there may be many Pixar fans who prefer to exclude the issue from children's movies, even though gay marriage is okay. Disney also chose theside in the Florida debate about teaching sexual orientation to young children, which may have hurt one of the world's most valuable brands.
James Patterson — the essence of a popular writer who doesn't mind sending messages — says a white male writer in Hollywood is “just another form of victim”. When I suggested it, it was full of criticism. Of racial discrimination. Sounds silly on the surface, but all Hollywood producers are vocally proclaiming their commitment to inclusiveness. This is another way of saying that he is anxious to hire someone other than a straight white man without disabilities. The TV Network proudly announces a newrequirementthat at least 50% of staff writers (eg at CBS) are members of a minority group. Once hired, such staff often ask to talk about imminent social issues.
Result? A British television surveyfound that 62% of viewers believed that political correctness was overkill.
"I'm attending a lot of meetings right now." Enough This never works because I wasn't awake to, "observesEgyptian-born British comedy writer and producer Ash Atalla. When polling ,TV producers are much more interested in foreground issues such as transgender rights than the general public in the UK (especially PCs are more than we Americans). ). In the United States, asurveyfocused on the entertainment industry found that 65% agreed that the company was over-awakening.
It's interesting that members of the entertainment industry often call it "industry" as if they had forgotten the most important word. With thecollapse of Netflix's stock, the headache of Disney's box office, and the resurgence of the "top gun," Hollywood executives have asked whether progressive politics has become a sort of voluntary awakened tax. You must be wondering.
Kyle Smith is a critic of the national review.
