11 February 2024

Amazon's DEI Playbook Means the End of Storytelling in Hollywood

This is a fairly long video from FilmThreat at 18 minutes and change, so I won't say much, except to give you the highlights. At 18 minutes, Alan Ng and Chris Gore barely scratch the surface.

Amazon Studios hired a DEI manager from Caterpillar, the manufacturer of large earth-moving equipment and other things. (Can you imagine two more diametrically opposed industries?). She, and some of her cohorts in HR wrote a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Accessibility playbook for screenwriting. You can find that playbook at this link.

Under the rules that hold for writing under this regime, you could not write the original Star Wars, Raiders of the Lost Ark, or any of the classic, Disney animated films. Mel Brooks would be unknown, as would most Richard Pryor movies. And it probably gets worse from there.

This is a blueprint for Soviet-style propaganda at best.

This is the FilmThreat video AMAZON STUDIOS' NEW DEI RULES WILL END CREATIVITY IN HOLLYWOOD | Film Threat Rants

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  1. My last drafting manager at the Radar engineering company I spent 10 years at had no engineering background or experience. He had a Masters in Child Psychology and a membership in the same country club that the engineering manager did. It showed...

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