From Film Threat: A VETERAN SCREENWRITER’S PLOT TWIST ON HOLLYWOOD’S DEI CULTURAL SHIFT: An Open Letter from a White Writer to the Film & TV Business
Why is it that the movies and TV we are getting today are so universally bad? Why is that writers don't know how to do anything except insert themselves into long-running franchise stories? Well, and comics too. It arguably started with comics.
Everything, from The Marvels, to The Rings of Prime, to She Hulk, to Indiana Jones, and Echo that has been produced in the past few years is crap. Well, almost everything. Some movies like Oppenheimer have escaped that fate, but not all. The Super Mario Brothers movie was only saved from being a woke catastrophe when the game company, that owns the IP, stepped in and said, "NO!" Left to themselves the writers would have made Mario a bumbling white man who needed to be rescued by the princess.
How did this happen, and is there any hope to getting back to where we started, where there were TV shows that people actually want to watch, and movies that people were willing to go to the theater to see?
This is the Film Threat Rant WGA WRITER EXPOSES HOLLYWOOD DEI. The article linked above is basically the transcript for the video with the exception of some discussion at the start of the video, and at the end. The discussion is worth listening to.
The talent of the writers of the sixties and seventies, meh,into the eighties,,it's just Gone. Eastwood's spaghetti Westerns, A-Team, Rockford, Leave it to Beaver, and the cartoons of Our day, Roadrunner, Foghorn Leghorn, versus Spongebob? Give me a Break.. What happened?
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The helicopter parents took over, and everything got made safe. It went from Wile E. Coyote attacking the Road Runner with dynamite and boulders to "Don't Try This At Home" to the pablum that had no entertainment value.
DeleteIt isn't only in entertainment. Chemistry sets used to contain actual chemicals of the kinds that were dangerous. Then they contained chemicals that would turn water different colors. All risk was removed from kids lives. Even the risk of failing a homework assignment.
Now we have people who can't do anything. They can't read and write, even though they are freshman in college. They can't do what used to be high-school-level math because it hurts their feelings when they fail.
Gimme a minute.. I'm gonna tell you you're wrong and why. I Said gimme a minute,, okay I got nothing
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