What is the difference between the film lover and a film hater today? Are they one in the same? Just one person to the next respectfully expressive of their taste, but uniquely different from the other for their background and upbringing? This is decisively the nature of the complication, as film production and the stories on screen are a major focal point of social criticism for their D.E.I. branded policies. Where did the social tension really originate? Is it a societal conflict?
The movies you like and the ones I like may greatly differ, but the artful way of creating a polite criticism to at least protect the sincerity for those who may have enjoyed the work is almost forgotten in some corners of the internet. When criticism develops unfavorably against a film, that means there is potential or brink of backlash and toxicity against the creators and those involved. While a film can be boring, cringe inducing, nerve wracking, irritating, or just stupid, it almost seemed like only the latter was complained about prior to 20 years, and since then a new meta label – Woke – came to replace a slew of tonal inconsistencies in films on the grounds' that they were also attempting to be different or political in the representation of their work.
The stories that are left-leaning politically in film, that also hit production mishaps, have budgets get overblown, postpone release day for reshoots, and release to poor, mediocre, or even good reviews, can all be assigned Woke. It’s not so much what something is in and of itself as content, but a reaction to a pattern or system of left-leaning political philosophies, that would lead someone to call something Woke, but now more than in any case, simply because they dislike something.
While I do believe both left and right philosophies are important for the pluralistic leadership of a multi-ethnic nation, I feel that while the political activists in Hollywood have the money to make movies, they aren’t very good at the process.
Basically, the entire idea for this essay/blog-post occurred to me when I hit the realization that Batman will one day be black before I eventually die. How does that influence me to write? It just makes me wonder, if they go so far, as I see a level of predictability here, to make a new Batman film, have him be black, will they even write a story? 30 years ago, I watched Fresh Prince of Bel-Air on cable TV. 50 years ago and prior is the worst period for diversity in all of film and TV history. With cultural revolutions, they began writing their own stories. And today, they blackify traditional characters and historic characters for the sake of revolution? I bet Sinners (2025) will have a higher rotten- tomatoes than black Batman (20??). Why am I so amped up on black Batman?
I recently watched Youtube discourse regarding a Variety article titled something like ‘backlash against Jeffrey Wright’s portrayal of a black commissioner Gordon. Does the idea of black commissioner Gordon bother me? No, it's just different from tradition. Can I see why it would bother someone else? Yes; imagine being told the things they like are wrong and that you can’t have it anymore? It’s been the straightforward publicity of the D.E.I. campaign in Hollywood.
What Hollywood needs for its diversity is new stories from culturally diverse writers that showcase original styles inspired by their environment and upbringing. If it can’t do this, it’ll remain in the process of fraudulent originality and they’ll keep reskinning characters' ethnicity under the pretense of inclusivity, but on the surface mask their intentions for the result of a cash grab.
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