Clifton Duncan made a brilliant point about this; writers only write for themselves or their peer; and their peers all live in a very small part of the US called Los Angeles, and not even the bad parts of LA, they only know how to write for themselves and the people in that particular zip code, but they seem surprised when people who don’t live there don’t like what they make
People seem to forget that there's diversity within Europe. The animated little mermaid changed the location from Denmark to Greece-ish in order to connect her father to the Poseidon god, which I think is fine. The live action just refuses to choose a place, so they can avoid doing the research. They think diversity is just about casting, not about culture. It would be more interesting to have the live action set on a more specific place, by either making it fully greek or danish. It also looks like Ariel's sisters are basically typecasted, like they did in the old days. I'd say Dune from 2020 works, but it's more a second try of the books, not a remake of the 80s version. If the new version is better, then I guess it doesn't want to be associated with the old one.
@DanielleBarnham That's very fair, I shouldn't have judged the earlier Dune movies without having seen it as a whole. The main point is that the Dune 2020 didn't market itself as a remake from an earlier movie, but rather as an adaptation directly from the book. It was to show an example where something can be remade without messing with an earlier beloved movie. The same with the handmaid's tale, it doesn't try to be associated with the movie from the 90s. And also with any famous book adaptation such as from Jane Austin and Shakespeare
@DanielleBarnham I'll give it a second try because I just came up with a better example! You remember The Golden Compass from 2007 that flopped, which was adapted from Philip Pullman's book series? I'd say His Dark Materials from 2019 is a wayyy better adaptation of the same book series. I think here a remake can be better if they base it on the book and not on the preexisting movie. (Sorry that I'm kinda bad at explaining)
This is such a great take. It sucks when you try to argue this to some people who no matter what, call you racist/sexist/homophobic for disliking the forced diversity
Why else would someone feel like the existence of non-straight and non-white people are being forced on them just for existing? There were once rules that required queer people to (1) be villains only, and (2) die or receive some other punishment for existing in the text. Inter-racial relationships were outright banned and racial minorities were mostly relegated to roles that reflected the stereotypes held by American W"AS"Ps. Those groups have needed to literally fight and die to start being treated like human beings by the white, cis-het majority.
A reason I can think of is corporate laziness, to a suit that only sees charts and numbers on a page, remaking an already successful product is guaranteed to be successful, but another problem is who they put in charge of said remake, in the right hands you get a remake that is new but has the same level of quality as the original; like RE2 remake, or you get a lazy adaptation where all the “creativity” went into the marketing, like the little mermaid remake
I just came back from watching Across the Spiderverse and I'm still high on dopamine. So there's still art out there, probably including a lot less famous ones that doesn't get the highlight it should be getting. I really recommend "Ruben Brandt, Collector", it's the most underrated piece of art I've ever seen!
It's all about the message. Characters become strong and the bestest ever all without developing any 'character'. Arcs don't develop or things are always conveniently right where they need to be and all men are dumb or weak. People are tired of this. I didn't realize this is now the thing. If it wasn't for you and European Lore, plus others who brought this to front and center, I would probably be thinking all Disney movies are okay for children. I have four kids and I know now, Disney is anything but okay for kids. Thank you for the video well presented and explained.
As a progressive myself, I hate this shallow definition of progress by representation. It's a symptom of a much larger American political problem of the 2 parties trying to distinguish themselves in a shallow way and corporations marketing themselves in a fashionable way to the people they take advantage of. And it's sad that so called artists fall into this silly trap and play the soulless corporate game just for their own gain or for lack of true values. Bottom line is this: if you consider yourself a progressive or "on the left" and you find yourself siding with international corporation conglomerates , you're doing something very wrong
It is the left siding with corporations. Hiring people to check boxes is exactly what representation means, in contrast with meritocracy where people are hired on merit. The left doesn't believe in merit, it's a "social construct". I think you picked people who don't have your interests in mind.
I did like the He-man and the Master's of the Universe remake from 2002 because it honored the source material and you could tell that those that worked on it liked the original show from the 80s. The Bourne Identity (2002) was a remake and that was definitely much better than the original one (1988) when it came to character arcs, but these are the exceptions rather than the rule.
Hollywood makes movies and shows for Hollywood in hopes that everyone else will like them. These changes and remakes are being forced by certain shareholders. RUclips doesn't like when their names are said. These attempts to highjack culture is started to widely be rejected by the US. That's why the last 7 out of 8 disney movies have bombs. This last weekend has been the worst in summer modern box office history. There are channels like valliant renegade that reports numbers and share holder calls. The last disney shareholder call was an absolute bloodbath against the CEO to his face foe the world to hear.
heres my pet peve with all these remakes why remake classics that no one askes for. but instead why not remake bad movies that failed more than 2 or 3 decades ago & that no one remembers for example cat in the hat
Cinderella. That's the remake I prefer to the original. I like both, but the 2015 one is the one that really hits me. Being a remake in itself does not mean a lack of creativity. I agree that a Moana remake seems odd and redundant, but with Cinderella, film has changed so much that the two movies are entirely different mediums. The original Disney film is like a storybook, whereas the remake has a modern, character-driven sensibility. That's not even getting into the huge differences in artistry and process between animation and live action. Maybe Disney signed off on it for money reasons, but the cast and crew and writers and art department were hardly lacking in originality or passion! It's a beautiful film, plus they made the prince an interesting character. I don't think the movie gets enough credit for that, particularly the scenes with his father. And people actually call it soulless!! They must have watched a different movie than I did.
In the streaming age I don't think Disney's old trick of taking something off the market for some number of years and then making a big sales push promoting it's limited time availability will work to promote sales of older titles. Part of what Disney built itself on was taking stuff that was public domain and putting their spin on it, as long as they are successful remaking stuff it will probably continue. It's been reported that The Little Mermaid cost $250 million to make and boxofficemojo is reporting worldwide gross of $477,118,356. I used to watch Siskel and Ebert movie reviews and they complained all the time about lack of creativity so it is not a new problem and diversity rarely seems like an issue. Writing, acting, directing, music score, not getting lazy if they have a big budget, finding creative ways to work around having a small budget, these are the things that matter. There are numerous examples of movies that relied on FX, or Action, or Sex, or having certain actors in the cast was expected to draw people to watch the movie and they got lazy with the other parts. And there are examples of that with diversity too, but for some reason if there is diversity involved that automatically seems to get the blame for something being bad these days.
The only remake I have liked is the 1990s The Mummy. It made sense to do a remake of the old black & white version. And the mummy actually was more frightening than a very slow one in the original movie. As for race, I'm beyond weary of basing everything upon skin color.
The only remake I prefer to the original is Disney's Cinderella Live Action directed by Kenneth Branagh. I feel like it's the only live action remake that actually adds to the original instead of taking away from it, while still maintaining the main plot points/messages from the original.
I feel like Americans don't always think about the differences within the broad ethnic categorizations that we created. We also tend to have heritage from multiple countries (for example I have ancestry from all across Europe, about 7 to 9 countries, ranging from Lithuania to Ireland). In the end though, the world at large is a lot more diverse then these oversized catagories (which lets face it, have the origin in a prejudice assumption that we are different species).
The first remake of A Star is Born, with Judy Garland, improved on the original. The sound remake of Ben Hur was better than the silent version, even though the latter was also impressive. A remake can sometimes be better than the original it just seldom occurs. Enjoyed the video. Don’t forget to let everyone know when you come to the States for an appearance!
Hello! American here. I think its important to point that throughout american history, we had a pretty big slavery movement which caused massive systematic issues world wide, despite it spliting us, it also weirdly unified american white people who grew up, not to mention how a lot of us tend to have mixed heritages. I think my family has bits of italian, german, irish, and probably more. Since our ancestors where raised as "Americans" and not whatever their heritage may have been, in the us white people are all pretty much just one group as oposed to the extremely diverse European union. Atleast thats my opinnon/thoughts on the matter
A very well spoken intelligence critique of modern Hollywood. Part of the problem they all live in the LA/Hollywood bubble. In answer to your question the remake of Assault on Precinct 13 and Operation Trixie remade as The Crazies.
I think one problem is that hollywood makes their movies too "perfect". I mean a 100% political correct movie is a poltical perfect movie. But life is not political correct. In movies strong female characters may be able to beat up a bunch of well trained men, but in real life i don't think that woman can relate to it. A movie with political messages should reflect our world. For example if you create a world and establish its rules. If one rule is that women are stronger, smarter and in every regard at least if not better than men. Do you think that you can have a feminist message in a world in which men are underdogs? With powerful women that treat the inferior males like dirt (sometimes they raceswap the male lead and now this movie is unironicly racist). Should we cheer on these female characters? Our political climate is not able to laugh about itself. These powerful over the top female characters are ridiculos. But we are not allowed to laugh at them, because then we are misogynist or sexist. Or our attempts to try to convince young girls that they have to become engineers and scientists. Aren't these overly smart young girls overused in media sometimes a bit silly? Why are comedic relief characters often male? Are female comedic relief characters less funny?
I liked how you started the video with Lord of the Rings Footage to demonstrate pure creative works of Hollywood. Ya know a adaptation. Literally couldn't thing of anything original eh? Then you juxtaposed it to not a movie but a tv show that wasn't ever aired on television nevermind a big screen.
I must admit im really curious about the Nosferatu remake I heard about since the Original came out in 1922 can we make that a rule there must be atleast a century between the original and a remake from now on 😂
Very well said! I agree with you in all of this. Remakes are just so lazy answer. Seriously, they are already making Vaiana to live action?! Like.. Just why..? I would love to see something actually new, like new stories.
Couldn’t agree with more with all your points. As an American, these days, yes, when it comes to “diversity” and “representation” it basically boils down to skin tone. Which, at least to me, comes off soulless, superficial, and ironically, very racist. I only can see it getting worse but perhaps I’m just cynical at this point. It is straight up pity and virtue signaling whenever a character is race swapped for a black person. It doesn’t even matter if it’s fiction or not anymore. My parents immigrated from Mexico, however I have more light complexion compared to others of Mexican descent, and I have lost count of how many times my entire arguments and identity itself has been discarded because I’m “white passing” whatever that even means.. it’s like a weird cult mentality and I gave up a few years ago, and hoping the tides would turn or things would go back to normal. At the end of the day, like you expressed, if there’s any instance whatsoever, of ticking off a check box for anything, (whether it be progress, equality, diversity) it’s just soulless commercialist tripe. As soon as I hear the word “diversity” I automatically lose interest and turn the other way. We can do better, we have done better. Shoehorned gender/race swapping is such a cheap and cringy way of pushing literally anything. Those things alone can’t prop up a lack of self respect, humanity and creativity itself. Just talking about it makes me want to launch myself into the sun, I’m so exhausted from it all…The most disheartening aspect of it, is the scarcity of finding others, who not even just agree with me, everyone is allowed to disagree with me lol, but finding someone who can at least express that see my points without the fear of getting burned at stake for being “racist” Lord forbid anyone dares to ask, what the point was for race swapping a white character to a black one… American culture at this point is essentially dominated by “black” culture, and all the proof you need is in our advertising . You can’t even see an ad/commercial, for cereal or even baby diapers, with out obnoxious hip hop booty shaking music playing in the background. Black people are beyond over represented in American culture. And so very few have the courage to point that out.
I think Hollywood has been creatively bankrupt for many years now. Perhaps it’s due to laziness, or the desire to earn quick money by using IP with built in audiences, hence the obsession with remakes and soft reboots. The bigger problem is this need to inject identity politics to “reflect the world we live in”. Personally, when I go to a movie, I want to experience something new and exciting, not the world I see everyday . To me, none of the remakes are better than the original. Modern writers don’t understand what a “strong female character” is, so they make them strong by making all the male characters old, weak, helpless idiots. The biggest problem, however, is that if we as audiences do not like their product, we are attacked and branded as racists, toxic, etc. Hollywood is dying, and the box offices shows the truth, flops after flops. When will they learn? Probably never!
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And yes, I think race is different in America than in Europe. Because of the "cultural melting pot" and the history of the country, skin color is likely more prominent, because almost everyone here has the same nationality, with ethnicities and cultures or cultural remnants all mixed together. Apart from indigenous peoples, nobody here has land-tied cultural roots that go back more than a few generations. Lots of Americans' cultural heritage has been severed or downplayed, and when that happens, people group together based on whatever commonalities they can find, or are forced into. Cut millions of people off from their heritage and suddenly what you look like matters a lot more. There are still cultural divides of course, but Race (even though we know it's only social, not scientific) is a serious thing, much as we often wish it wasn't. Race in America has developed culture of it's own, hence why Black Culture exists the way it does. There is too much history for it not to be this way, though we are slowly getting better. An unfortunate side effect of this is the idea in media diversity that all white people from all over the world are interchangeable, that "people of color" are interchangeable. An odd way this has manifested in a bid for diversity is this attitude that skin color is interchangeable (race-swapping.) Race swapping by itself isn't a problem, but the way they do it sometimes feels very surface level to me, because it can end up downplaying the importance of cultural identity, by applying an American lens to stories that are not American in origin. You could have whole college classes dedicated to this topic. But I think that's part of why current diversity standards can feel sort of...hollow. They appeal to a vision of social progress where the only goal is that the cast is visually mixed, every time. There's nothing wrong with a movie with an all Black cast, there's nothing wrong with a movie with an all White cast, there just needs to be representation for everyone across the board. I wish studios understood that. I liked the metaphor about hand me down clothes. It seems to fit the situation pretty well (pun intended.)
Artists around the world have plenty of creativity to offer. It's just the mainstream is too scared to pick up these ideas if there's as much as one (1) controversial thing in them like violence, questioning authority or god forbid gays holding hands. If the whole world wasn't currently stuck in this rightist "only classic art is good art, wtf is this square painting in my gallery" rut and people were open minded enough to accept fresh ideas, producers wouldn't be so scared to risk it. But alas, we got a shitty Lion King remake beating records because apparently classic, familiar, save = good.
Maybe if art galleries and museums stop showing bananas taped to a wall, or 2 lines painted on a canvas, or if artists stop doing "Take the money and run".
You are a strong female character, luckily not in a way the writers want 😅. And I am white man, luckily also not as the writers imagine 😁. As a German I can say, most of Europeans are not like us, sometimes unfortunately 😜, currently probably fortunately 🤦♂. In all seriousness though even Germans are quite different characters depending on the region.
Certainly not all Americans follow the far-left ideology you are seeing in Hollywood, which yes seems to believe everyone within a racial group is the same and the racial groups are all different from each other. Even if they knew of differences within European groups, they wouldn't care, and would claim you still have 'privilege' based on your skin color, and they do the same for gender and sexual preference. They even have a hierarchy of social victimhood called the 'progressive stack' which rank orders people in terms of their victimhood status, but really its just a rationale to discriminate against white people and men. They'll even claim that white people can't experience racism nor can non-whites be racists due to a neo-Marxist conception of 'power', i.e., you need power to be a racist and only white people have the power therefore only they can be racists. Their idea of 'justice' then is to give people roles (i.e., wealth) based on their demographics instead of their merit. One more bit of their ideology is that politics is downstream of culture, thus if you control culture, you control politics. So, if they can just remove the culture of people who voted right wing, and pose women (who tend to vote left) and non-whites (who also tend to vote left) as leaders in culture, they can get in the government they want. The result of all this are the race/gender/sexual preference checklists you see being used for shows, and now even for the Oscars. And, to them the only value cultural properties have is as a vehicle to carry their ideology, or failing that, to die off in culture so it can't carry anyone else's ideology. In the ludicrous 'Rings of Power' you see a good example of them using checklists (the studio even posts their inclusion quotas online) to determine who gets to say what for how long based on their demographics, and they could care less about storytelling, they just want the cultural clout of Tolkien's name.
America sounds so complicated. Like, why humans just can't treat other humans normally. I just wished Hollywood wouldn't use european history/lore/stories as their own political playground. Just leave european things alone :'DD
Clifton Duncan made a brilliant point about this; writers only write for themselves or their peer; and their peers all live in a very small part of the US called Los Angeles, and not even the bad parts of LA, they only know how to write for themselves and the people in that particular zip code, but they seem surprised when people who don’t live there don’t like what they make
People seem to forget that there's diversity within Europe. The animated little mermaid changed the location from Denmark to Greece-ish in order to connect her father to the Poseidon god, which I think is fine. The live action just refuses to choose a place, so they can avoid doing the research. They think diversity is just about casting, not about culture. It would be more interesting to have the live action set on a more specific place, by either making it fully greek or danish. It also looks like Ariel's sisters are basically typecasted, like they did in the old days.
I'd say Dune from 2020 works, but it's more a second try of the books, not a remake of the 80s version. If the new version is better, then I guess it doesn't want to be associated with the old one.
@DanielleBarnham That's very fair, I shouldn't have judged the earlier Dune movies without having seen it as a whole. The main point is that the Dune 2020 didn't market itself as a remake from an earlier movie, but rather as an adaptation directly from the book. It was to show an example where something can be remade without messing with an earlier beloved movie. The same with the handmaid's tale, it doesn't try to be associated with the movie from the 90s. And also with any famous book adaptation such as from Jane Austin and Shakespeare
@DanielleBarnham I'll give it a second try because I just came up with a better example! You remember The Golden Compass from 2007 that flopped, which was adapted from Philip Pullman's book series? I'd say His Dark Materials from 2019 is a wayyy better adaptation of the same book series. I think here a remake can be better if they base it on the book and not on the preexisting movie. (Sorry that I'm kinda bad at explaining)
This is such a great take. It sucks when you try to argue this to some people who no matter what, call you racist/sexist/homophobic for disliking the forced diversity
Why else would someone feel like the existence of non-straight and non-white people are being forced on them just for existing? There were once rules that required queer people to (1) be villains only, and (2) die or receive some other punishment for existing in the text. Inter-racial relationships were outright banned and racial minorities were mostly relegated to roles that reflected the stereotypes held by American W"AS"Ps. Those groups have needed to literally fight and die to start being treated like human beings by the white, cis-het majority.
A reason I can think of is corporate laziness, to a suit that only sees charts and numbers on a page, remaking an already successful product is guaranteed to be successful, but another problem is who they put in charge of said remake, in the right hands you get a remake that is new but has the same level of quality as the original; like RE2 remake, or you get a lazy adaptation where all the “creativity” went into the marketing, like the little mermaid remake
I just came back from watching Across the Spiderverse and I'm still high on dopamine. So there's still art out there, probably including a lot less famous ones that doesn't get the highlight it should be getting. I really recommend "Ruben Brandt, Collector", it's the most underrated piece of art I've ever seen!
It is rare. But both The Fly and The Thing are better than the originals. And, maybe my favorite remake ever: Cape Fear.
At this point Im convinced that all the live action remakes are just a money laundering scheme
It's all about the message. Characters become strong and the bestest ever all without developing any 'character'. Arcs don't develop or things are always conveniently right where they need to be and all men are dumb or weak. People are tired of this. I didn't realize this is now the thing. If it wasn't for you and European Lore, plus others who brought this to front and center, I would probably be thinking all Disney movies are okay for children. I have four kids and I know now, Disney is anything but okay for kids. Thank you for the video well presented and explained.
As a progressive myself, I hate this shallow definition of progress by representation. It's a symptom of a much larger American political problem of the 2 parties trying to distinguish themselves in a shallow way and corporations marketing themselves in a fashionable way to the people they take advantage of. And it's sad that so called artists fall into this silly trap and play the soulless corporate game just for their own gain or for lack of true values.
Bottom line is this: if you consider yourself a progressive or "on the left" and you find yourself siding with international corporation conglomerates , you're doing something very wrong
It is the left siding with corporations. Hiring people to check boxes is exactly what representation means, in contrast with meritocracy where people are hired on merit. The left doesn't believe in merit, it's a "social construct". I think you picked people who don't have your interests in mind.
I did like the He-man and the Master's of the Universe remake from 2002 because it honored the source material and you could tell that those that worked on it liked the original show from the 80s. The Bourne Identity (2002) was a remake and that was definitely much better than the original one (1988) when it came to character arcs, but these are the exceptions rather than the rule.
My wife is a "woman of color" and I've yet to see a Lao who isn't Hmong representation in any modern film.
Hollywood is also extremely slow. It will take 2 to 3 years to truly see these major studios change.
Hollywood makes movies and shows for Hollywood in hopes that everyone else will like them.
These changes and remakes are being forced by certain shareholders. RUclips doesn't like when their names are said.
These attempts to highjack culture is started to widely be rejected by the US. That's why the last 7 out of 8 disney movies have bombs.
This last weekend has been the worst in summer modern box office history.
There are channels like valliant renegade that reports numbers and share holder calls.
The last disney shareholder call was an absolute bloodbath against the CEO to his face foe the world to hear.
I really have to prepare myself mentally when I go to the movies these day. General shutdown of logic initiating in 3....2.....1.......
heres my pet peve with all these remakes why remake classics that no one askes for. but instead why not remake bad movies that failed more than 2 or 3 decades ago & that no one remembers for example cat in the hat
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Cinderella. That's the remake I prefer to the original. I like both, but the 2015 one is the one that really hits me.
Being a remake in itself does not mean a lack of creativity. I agree that a Moana remake seems odd and redundant, but with Cinderella, film has changed so much that the two movies are entirely different mediums. The original Disney film is like a storybook, whereas the remake has a modern, character-driven sensibility.
That's not even getting into the huge differences in artistry and process between animation and live action. Maybe Disney signed off on it for money reasons, but the cast and crew and writers and art department were hardly lacking in originality or passion!
It's a beautiful film, plus they made the prince an interesting character. I don't think the movie gets enough credit for that, particularly the scenes with his father. And people actually call it soulless!! They must have watched a different movie than I did.
Oceans Eleven is the first remake that came to mind. The original from the 60s is an absolute train wreck.
In the streaming age I don't think Disney's old trick of taking something off the market for some number of years and then making a big sales push promoting it's limited time availability will work to promote sales of older titles.
Part of what Disney built itself on was taking stuff that was public domain and putting their spin on it, as long as they are successful remaking stuff it will probably continue.
It's been reported that The Little Mermaid cost $250 million to make and boxofficemojo is reporting worldwide gross of $477,118,356.
I used to watch Siskel and Ebert movie reviews and they complained all the time about lack of creativity so it is not a new problem and diversity rarely seems like an issue.
Writing, acting, directing, music score, not getting lazy if they have a big budget, finding creative ways to work around having a small budget, these are the things that matter.
There are numerous examples of movies that relied on FX, or Action, or Sex, or having certain actors in the cast was expected to draw people to watch the movie and they got lazy with the other parts. And there are examples of that with diversity too, but for some reason if there is diversity involved that automatically seems to get the blame for something being bad these days.
The only remake I have liked is the 1990s The Mummy. It made sense to do a remake of the old black & white version. And the mummy actually was more frightening than a very slow one in the original movie. As for race, I'm beyond weary of basing everything upon skin color.
I hope that in the next decade, that everyone gets sick and tired of those remakes for good.
The only remake I prefer to the original is Disney's Cinderella Live Action directed by Kenneth Branagh. I feel like it's the only live action remake that actually adds to the original instead of taking away from it, while still maintaining the main plot points/messages from the original.
I feel like Americans don't always think about the differences within the broad ethnic categorizations that we created. We also tend to have heritage from multiple countries (for example I have ancestry from all across Europe, about 7 to 9 countries, ranging from Lithuania to Ireland). In the end though, the world at large is a lot more diverse then these oversized catagories (which lets face it, have the origin in a prejudice assumption that we are different species).
The first remake of A Star is Born, with Judy Garland, improved on the original. The sound remake of Ben Hur was better than the silent version, even though the latter was also impressive. A remake can sometimes be better than the original it just seldom occurs.
Enjoyed the video. Don’t forget to let everyone know when you come to the States for an appearance!
Hello! American here. I think its important to point that throughout american history, we had a pretty big slavery movement which caused massive systematic issues world wide, despite it spliting us, it also weirdly unified american white people who grew up, not to mention how a lot of us tend to have mixed heritages. I think my family has bits of italian, german, irish, and probably more. Since our ancestors where raised as "Americans" and not whatever their heritage may have been, in the us white people are all pretty much just one group as oposed to the extremely diverse European union. Atleast thats my opinnon/thoughts on the matter
A very well spoken intelligence critique of modern Hollywood. Part of the problem they all live in the LA/Hollywood bubble. In answer to your question the remake of Assault on Precinct 13 and Operation Trixie remade as The Crazies.
I think one problem is that hollywood makes their movies too "perfect". I mean a 100% political correct movie is a poltical perfect movie. But life is not political correct.
In movies strong female characters may be able to beat up a bunch of well trained men, but in real life i don't think that woman can relate to it. A movie with political messages should reflect our world.
For example if you create a world and establish its rules. If one rule is that women are stronger, smarter and in every regard at least if not better than men. Do you think that you can have a feminist message in a world in which men are underdogs? With powerful women that treat the inferior males like dirt (sometimes they raceswap the male lead and now this movie is unironicly racist). Should we cheer on these female characters?
Our political climate is not able to laugh about itself. These powerful over the top female characters are ridiculos. But we are not allowed to laugh at them, because then we are misogynist or sexist. Or our attempts to try to convince young girls that they have to become engineers and scientists. Aren't these overly smart young girls overused in media sometimes a bit silly? Why are comedic relief characters often male? Are female comedic relief characters less funny?
I liked how you started the video with Lord of the Rings Footage to demonstrate pure creative works of Hollywood. Ya know a adaptation.
Literally couldn't thing of anything original eh?
Then you juxtaposed it to not a movie but a tv show that wasn't ever aired on television nevermind a big screen.
Agreed, my wife and I have preferred Korean Drama's over Hollywoods for the past year. - Fresh prince of Bel Air remake is better imo.
Where do I see ugly people in all these diverse remakes? I don't feel represent 😅
I must admit im really curious about the Nosferatu remake I heard about since the Original came out in 1922 can we make that a rule there must be atleast a century between the original and a remake from now on 😂
Very well said! I agree with you in all of this.
Remakes are just so lazy answer. Seriously, they are already making Vaiana to live action?! Like.. Just why..? I would love to see something actually new, like new stories.
This is why you're the woman of culture I enjoy your stuff!
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@@tomhrio I blame Hunter Biden 😨
Each day, more and more, Hollywood close themselves in an eco chamber, they dont talk for America anymore
Couldn’t agree with more with all your points. As an American, these days, yes, when it comes to “diversity” and “representation” it basically boils down to skin tone. Which, at least to me, comes off soulless, superficial, and ironically, very racist. I only can see it getting worse but perhaps I’m just cynical at this point. It is straight up pity and virtue signaling whenever a character is race swapped for a black person. It doesn’t even matter if it’s fiction or not anymore. My parents immigrated from Mexico, however I have more light complexion compared to others of Mexican descent, and I have lost count of how many times my entire arguments and identity itself has been discarded because I’m “white passing” whatever that even means.. it’s like a weird cult mentality and I gave up a few years ago, and hoping the tides would turn or things would go back to normal. At the end of the day, like you expressed, if there’s any instance whatsoever, of ticking off a check box for anything, (whether it be progress, equality, diversity) it’s just soulless commercialist tripe. As soon as I hear the word “diversity” I automatically lose interest and turn the other way. We can do better, we have done better. Shoehorned gender/race swapping is such a cheap and cringy way of pushing literally anything. Those things alone can’t prop up a lack of self respect, humanity and creativity itself. Just talking about it makes me want to launch myself into the sun, I’m so exhausted from it all…The most disheartening aspect of it, is the scarcity of finding others, who not even just agree with me, everyone is allowed to disagree with me lol, but finding someone who can at least express that see my points without the fear of getting burned at stake for being “racist” Lord forbid anyone dares to ask, what the point was for race swapping a white character to a black one… American culture at this point is essentially dominated by “black” culture, and all the proof you need is in our advertising . You can’t even see an ad/commercial, for cereal or even baby diapers, with out obnoxious hip hop booty shaking music playing in the background. Black people are beyond over represented in American culture. And so very few have the courage to point that out.
I think Hollywood has been creatively bankrupt for many years now. Perhaps it’s due to laziness, or the desire to earn quick money by using IP with built in audiences, hence the obsession with remakes and soft reboots. The bigger problem is this need to inject identity politics to “reflect the world we live in”. Personally, when I go to a movie, I want to experience something new and exciting, not the world I see everyday . To me, none of the remakes are better than the original. Modern writers don’t understand what a “strong female character” is, so they make them strong by making all the male characters old, weak, helpless idiots. The biggest problem, however, is that if we as audiences do not like their product, we are attacked and branded as racists, toxic, etc. Hollywood is dying, and the box offices shows the truth, flops after flops. When will they learn? Probably never!
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And yes, I think race is different in America than in Europe. Because of the "cultural melting pot" and the history of the country, skin color is likely more prominent, because almost everyone here has the same nationality, with ethnicities and cultures or cultural remnants all mixed together. Apart from indigenous peoples, nobody here has land-tied cultural roots that go back more than a few generations.
Lots of Americans' cultural heritage has been severed or downplayed, and when that happens, people group together based on whatever commonalities they can find, or are forced into. Cut millions of people off from their heritage and suddenly what you look like matters a lot more.
There are still cultural divides of course, but Race (even though we know it's only social, not scientific) is a serious thing, much as we often wish it wasn't. Race in America has developed culture of it's own, hence why Black Culture exists the way it does. There is too much history for it not to be this way, though we are slowly getting better.
An unfortunate side effect of this is the idea in media diversity that all white people from all over the world are interchangeable, that "people of color" are interchangeable.
An odd way this has manifested in a bid for diversity is this attitude that skin color is interchangeable (race-swapping.) Race swapping by itself isn't a problem, but the way they do it sometimes feels very surface level to me, because it can end up downplaying the importance of cultural identity, by applying an American lens to stories that are not American in origin.
You could have whole college classes dedicated to this topic. But I think that's part of why current diversity standards can feel sort of...hollow. They appeal to a vision of social progress where the only goal is that the cast is visually mixed, every time. There's nothing wrong with a movie with an all Black cast, there's nothing wrong with a movie with an all White cast, there just needs to be representation for everyone across the board. I wish studios understood that.
I liked the metaphor about hand me down clothes. It seems to fit the situation pretty well (pun intended.)
Artists around the world have plenty of creativity to offer. It's just the mainstream is too scared to pick up these ideas if there's as much as one (1) controversial thing in them like violence, questioning authority or god forbid gays holding hands. If the whole world wasn't currently stuck in this rightist "only classic art is good art, wtf is this square painting in my gallery" rut and people were open minded enough to accept fresh ideas, producers wouldn't be so scared to risk it. But alas, we got a shitty Lion King remake beating records because apparently classic, familiar, save = good.
Maybe if art galleries and museums stop showing bananas taped to a wall, or 2 lines painted on a canvas, or if artists stop doing "Take the money and run".
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The Hills have Eyes, the remake is much much better than the original. Very good movie, but for mature audiences only.
You are a strong female character, luckily not in a way the writers want 😅. And I am white man, luckily also not as the writers imagine 😁.
As a German I can say, most of Europeans are not like us, sometimes unfortunately 😜, currently probably fortunately 🤦♂. In all seriousness though even Germans are quite different characters depending on the region.
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Certainly not all Americans follow the far-left ideology you are seeing in Hollywood, which yes seems to believe everyone within a racial group is the same and the racial groups are all different from each other. Even if they knew of differences within European groups, they wouldn't care, and would claim you still have 'privilege' based on your skin color, and they do the same for gender and sexual preference. They even have a hierarchy of social victimhood called the 'progressive stack' which rank orders people in terms of their victimhood status, but really its just a rationale to discriminate against white people and men. They'll even claim that white people can't experience racism nor can non-whites be racists due to a neo-Marxist conception of 'power', i.e., you need power to be a racist and only white people have the power therefore only they can be racists. Their idea of 'justice' then is to give people roles (i.e., wealth) based on their demographics instead of their merit.
One more bit of their ideology is that politics is downstream of culture, thus if you control culture, you control politics. So, if they can just remove the culture of people who voted right wing, and pose women (who tend to vote left) and non-whites (who also tend to vote left) as leaders in culture, they can get in the government they want. The result of all this are the race/gender/sexual preference checklists you see being used for shows, and now even for the Oscars. And, to them the only value cultural properties have is as a vehicle to carry their ideology, or failing that, to die off in culture so it can't carry anyone else's ideology. In the ludicrous 'Rings of Power' you see a good example of them using checklists (the studio even posts their inclusion quotas online) to determine who gets to say what for how long based on their demographics, and they could care less about storytelling, they just want the cultural clout of Tolkien's name.
America sounds so complicated. Like, why humans just can't treat other humans normally. I just wished Hollywood wouldn't use european history/lore/stories as their own political playground. Just leave european things alone :'DD
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