Anti-woke? Do people like the Snow White remake here?
I agree with everyone else in China regarding that movie (and I’m pretty sure the Black Panthers would have agreed): it’s performative virtue-signalling and blatantly insincere about it. It’s not real progress, and it’s clearly not reflecting real progress because the West is currently regressing. It exists for two reasons: to ease the Western left’s crippling levels of guilt from the centuries of horrific abuse they inflicted on Africans and their New World descendants, and to stir up the culture war bread and circuses.
It just smells extremely liberal to be attacking Andy Boreham (someone who’s made a career of defending China’s reputation from liberal hatemongering) for calling liberal culture war bait exactly what it is.
Agree. I assume Disney pushed this through simply because they already put money into it, and they saw that they still managed to make money off of live-action Ariel.
In theory, casting non-white actors helps to sell their movies to a more global audience, thus making more money. In practice, I think global audiences prefer companies to put more effort into actually telling their stories rather than just shoving them into white stories.
Anti-woke? Do people like the Snow White remake here?
I agree with everyone else in China regarding that movie (and I’m pretty sure the Black Panthers would have agreed): it’s performative virtue-signalling and blatantly insincere about it. It’s not real progress, and it’s clearly not reflecting real progress because the West is currently regressing. It exists for two reasons: to ease the Western left’s crippling levels of guilt from the centuries of horrific abuse they inflicted on Africans and their New World descendants, and to stir up the culture war bread and circuses.
It just smells extremely liberal to be attacking Andy Boreham (someone who’s made a career of defending China’s reputation from liberal hatemongering) for calling liberal culture war bait exactly what it is.
Agree. I assume Disney pushed this through simply because they already put money into it, and they saw that they still managed to make money off of live-action Ariel.
In theory, casting non-white actors helps to sell their movies to a more global audience, thus making more money. In practice, I think global audiences prefer companies to put more effort into actually telling their stories rather than just shoving them into white stories.
Agreed.