A statement not supported by the evidence at all. Maybe you can find him doing a PR puff piece interview where he says that, but the movie he made is much stronger evidence to the contrary.
No its not. Its got more deep cut references than any casual star wars fan would ever be privy too. In fact its quite obvious by watching it how much of a star wars nerd he is. References to obscure books published in the past and more.
The gold bikini princess? I don't think that's how feminism works
Then you don't know much about feminism. That same character uses her own chains to kill her captor.
A character being sexy or wearing skimpy attire is not anti feminist lol.
An observation of the bleak times ahead under the current astro-turfed corpo cultural powers.
This statement is correct. The witcher show writers wouldn't suddenly become talented magically if they were to start working on an original property that no fanbase was previously invested in. But imagine if they were capable of making good shows, do you understand how writers who hate something people like, don't respect the thing and aren't trying to capture what people like about the thing aren't going to produce something in the spirit of said thing, producing instead something bearing its name while not really being like it?
No? Because what people like about the thing doesn't make a thing good in and of itself either. It being good does that. Hugo weaving has hated a lot of projects he was in but he still did good. Mark Hamill wasn't feeling lukes treatment on TLJ but he still put in the work and delivered a great performance. It happens all the time.
Look no further than the prequel trilogy to see this. That was George Lucas own brainchild and most of it is nigh unwatchable at this point. Sure it has stuff we like about star wars in it but ultimately those movies fall flat because those things are just surface level additions with little depth facilitated by the story.
You're right to say no one cares if shows are diverse, because shows were diverse long before the current era of hatred towards the source material and nobody had a problem with it. Why is it then, that fanboys who liked Lando Calrissian and liked Mace Windu are suddenly toxic racists now when they criticize disney's crappy new star wars output? The diversity isn't the problem, it's corpos and their useful idiots using diversity as a fake morality shield so they can claim to be "good" while destroying the things they hate, which they call "fixing the past."
Thats ridiculous.
For starters, calling 1 or 2 token black guys in a sea of other characters is not "diversity" lol. For two, if you're criticizing newer surface simply because they use minoritiy character and attaching the quality to that, then that IS pretty toxic considering I doubt most would like the project better if they had just cast mor white people.
And you say companies use it as a shield but that doesn't really happen. There is no "shield" but there is dismissal of criticism that tries to implicate the diversity of rhe cast with the drop in quality. Anyone should be able to see through that nonsense.
The current "better" hollywood is more racist and sexist than ever. Couples write screenplays together and on submission are asked to take the man's name off the screenplay so it can be sold as written by a woman.
My guy this isnr a new trend, you just recently found out about it. Its been going on for decades and is a remnant of older entertainment that needs to be appeased to.
Disney lectures critics for being racist in free western countries and then shrinks black actors on posters to sell movies to China.
That ess overblown. Look up the poster for the second movie and he features prominently on there even in China. Sure, they may have capitulated to Chinese censors originally bu they didn't stick with that. I'll take omprofnenr over perfection.
Men are increasingly portrayed as incompetent or evil. There's plenty of discrimination on the basis of race/gender, it's just towards fashionable, approved targets.
Again, nothing new. Why do you think we got so many Russian villains during he higher of the cold War?
Like... these movies are art pieces put they are also corporate products design to appeal to an audience. That has always been the case. Thats why they do test audiences and things and change scenes around if their demograohic doesn't respond well.
What has happened is that audience has changed. Not only has it changed to involve a much more diverse swath of people(which also increases capitalist potential) but a portion of it has also changed to be vocally and virulent opposed to even the normal levels of diversity we've gotten before. Those people need to be pushed away regardless. They don't belong anymore.
Opinions on the indivudal shoes and whatever is all well and good but trying to reduce all media down to some simple ideological warfare is juvenile. Thrrrd for more nuance to the discussion than that.
) i actually wrote an article on this subject. Turns out that hating the source material can actually be a good thing for an adaption if you can channel that hatred into a good parody/satire of it (while also being professional). Even being indifferent to the source material can also be a good thing as it allows you to make something without being shackled to your own expectations.
