If you’re an advocate for diversity – this is your film.
While reviewing my RSS feeds about independent films today I ran across an IndieWire article on a project (film) in progress.
This is the opening paragraph the filmmakers are using to pitch their movie.
"3 out of our 4 leads are female. One is LGTBQ, another is high-functioning with ASD, and the last couple are 60+ in age. They are all Asian-American. In addition, our production team and crew also consists of over 50% women and PoC. If you’re an advocate for diversity – this is your film."
This is the world we live in now.... We're supposed to care about movies not because they are good but because they were made by women or feature actors who are Asian American.
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Full article: http://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/proj...
This is the opening paragraph the filmmakers are using to pitch their movie.
"3 out of our 4 leads are female. One is LGTBQ, another is high-functioning with ASD, and the last couple are 60+ in age. They are all Asian-American. In addition, our production team and crew also consists of over 50% women and PoC. If you’re an advocate for diversity – this is your film."
This is the world we live in now.... We're supposed to care about movies not because they are good but because they were made by women or feature actors who are Asian American.
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Full article: http://www.indiewire.com/2016/09/proj...
It was quite good, actually, and had a lot of good morals and values. And whether or not it had transnational or transracial fruit and vegetable castmembers (Lettuce, Garlic, Broccoli, Tomato, Qumquat) didn't matter.
Thinking about their premise... I think I've seen more than one Bollywood movie that meets their (tho not necessarily our) criteria.
All that matters - is that it's been given the blessings (oops, excuse me, need to conform that to the approved non-religious or sociologically non-preferential) approval of the State Ministry for Equal Opportunity, Non-Discrimination, and Political Correctness. And that the appropriate politicians in charge of the Bureau of Nannyist Overlords got their specific and unearned "permit and license fees".
What I do find inexcusable is a rewrite of historical fact in order to force a PC theme. The most recent example I have just seen is the History Channel's depiction of Hannibal during their "Barbarian" series. Hannibal was being depicted as a sub-Saharan African when the Carthaginians were originally Phoenicians from the Eastern Mediterranean (Lebanon/Syria area), but I can let that pass until... Jesse Jackson was chosen to be one of the commentators for this segment and his PC spin was the Romans (white people) were slaughtering and enslaving their way to empire while the Carthaginians (supposedly black Africans) were fighting to set people free. cough cough WHAT?! He and the History Channel were now PC rewriting what is well known about Carthage, Rome and the Punic Wars. In reality Carthage was a three tiered society with Carthaginian/Phoenician citizens on top, foreigners/traders second, and slaves third - Carthage was a slave holding nation as well as Rome, but you wouldn't know that after listening to Jackson's narrative. Carthage and Rome were two bullies fighting over the same block, but the History Channel turned it into a Rome (bad white people) vs Carthage (good black people) contest, which is a totally false narrative.
Extraterrestrial invaders could not have concocted a better, more devious way to turn humans against each other.
Apparently, the loud music did not drown out what was being said for the rest of y'all.
Me dino gave up trying to read lips for just less than a minute.
"Have we covered our MARS bases: Marital Status, Age, Race, and Sex"
"Yes. We've got >60, Asian, and >50% females. OH crap, we forgot marital status."
"LGBTQ counts for that now, so we're covered."
"Oh good. I dodged a bullet."
"Please, no violent metaphors. We avoided an imbroglio."
That's how I imagine it, anyway. :)
See https://encyclopediadramatica.se/Soci...
Those who support that view are known as "Social Justice Warriors" (SJW), "crybullies", and "special snowflakes".
Their common tactics are to hold public tantrums and to shut opponents up by force. Marxist slogans such as "Check your privilege!" are theirs. Lots of examples here: https://www.reddit.com/r/SocialJustic...
Their relevance to Hollywood is that they want to take every good film, book, TV show, etc. and remake it with a ton of gratuitous minority characters, even if they bring the plot to a halt or make it ridiculous.
They also want to rewrite history to be "fair" to minorities even though it means not giving proper credit for the achievements that are the basis of modern civilization.
http://fusmadison.org/socialjustice
I've heard of little bits of that weird political stuff you mentioned but thankfully not at social justice events. I think (at least hope) that "safe space" stuff has hit its high water mark and is receding.
the system of selecting people for jobs, positions and awards according to group membership, self identification is ok. Priorities are given to groups who are violent (this is practiced without discrimination) as they suffered imagined injustices to their (chosen) ancestors from old white males. Actually just membership of those groups rates only half way up, only those who complain and threaten the most as community agit/organz/spokespersons get top rating.
Many old white males conform to the standards, it is a self-sacrifice, living for the sake of (certain) others, a metaphorical form of self-flagellation. Very praise worthy I am sure tho' personally, I do not live up to those high standards.
Too much? /s