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Believe me I've tried - I love TV and film, but cannot get very far before the obligatory strong, independent and sassy minority group representative appears to
by growlist 7y ago
Believe me I've tried - I love TV and film, but cannot get very far before the obligatory strong, independent and sassy minority group representative appears to deliver their identity politics sermon. No thanks! It's patronising and boring.
Reminder: The Alien franchise managed to have a strong female lead and be one of the best sci-fi series ever, and all without including the barely disguised sociology lectures. Go back and look at films from the 60s-00s - many were able to integrate minority characters/themes etc. with charm and subtlety, and managed to avoid the contemporary subtle as a brick approach. We're at the point where gems like Blazing Saddles could never be made due to the po-faced, finger wagging authoritarianism of the PC establishment.
- octernion 7y agoum, moving past needing "charm and subtlety" to include minorities is one of the huge advances of cinema in the last several decades. again, you seriously should reconsider your identity politics if you think of any popular tv/movies in our current day as a "sermon." many people (including myself) who grew up with those same movies (and i appreciate blazing saddles & alien as much as anyone) do not find themselves at odds with the current ideological landscape.
- stronglikedan 7y agoI struggled to get through the latest incarnation of The Mist because of this very thing. I like to think that this is what got it cancelled, since it was an otherwise cool concept, just ruined.