The great wokeness awakening means that there’s no more mere pop culture, no songs or shows or movies, everything is a vital element in the great struggle between the way things are and the revolutionary vanguard. Much like Soviet propaganda, every piece of garbage is really fighting for humanity’s soul.
Hollywood wokeness, like corporate wokeness, depends on the conviction that the crap you buy is deeply significant. After media paroxysms over Black Panther comic book movies as the defining mythos of black nationalism, WB Discovery is trying that same angle for Latinos with an even more obscure comic book character.
‘Blue Beetle’ director Ángel Manuel Soto says the DC film is a ‘love letter to our ancestors’ – AP
What the conquistadors really wanted was a love letter about some guy in a beetle-looking mech suit in a dead franchise that the studio has already written off.
The film — starring “Cobra Kai’s” Xolo Maridueña as Jaime Reyes, aka Blue Beetle and DC’s first Latino superhero — oozes with Mexican references and elements of other Latin American cultures through almost every scene. Still, the Puerto Rican director says that all of this came naturally due to his and Dunnet-Alcocer’s backgrounds.
“We never were like, ‘Okay, so how are we going to make this Latino?’ We cannot hide who we are. If we have the opportunity to tell our collective experiences because we are Latino, they’re going to come out Latino.”
Much as Black Panther was created by two Jewish guys, Blue Bettle was created by a wite guy and the character was never Latino until 65 years later.
But please tell us how a character nobody cared about that was rebooted as Latino during the Iraq War somehow embodies the Latino experience.
Soto is promoting the film by himself due to the ongoing Hollywood strikes, which prohibit actors and screenwriters from promoting work under television and theatrical contracts. Still, he made sure to bring his cast along for the ride via a culturally relevant white shirt with illustrations of his lead cast as Mexican Loteria characters during the Los Angeles leg of the press tour. The game is similar to bingo and is popular in Mexican and Mexican-American households.
“I know they’re sad that they cannot be here, but they understand that what they’re doing is important for the future generations, and they have my full support, so the least I could do was bring them with me,” said Soto. “I know they’re here in spirit.”
Yes, the spirits of the striking cast members and the ancestors are shining down from Grauman’s Chinese Theater.
I didn’t want to be that person that my Latinidad had to conform to somebody else’s expectations of Latinidad. I wanted to be able to be free, and I wanted the actors that I hired that are Latino to be authentically themselves.
So when I said that, they were like, ‘Oh, no, no, don’t worry. Our writer is Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer. He is a Mexican from Querétaro and just read the script. Let me know what you think.’
Remember when we were all going to be part of one country? Good times.
Imagine this kind of thing in any other job. Don’t worry, our bookkeeper is a Mexican.
The combined racism and kitsch of identity politics, the divisive woke consumerism, the nationalism attached to junk corporate products is really where capitalism commercializes Marxism.
Marxism pushes identity politics. Corporate America turns identity politics into a tawdry product.
Identity politics was fundamental to all the wars primitive peoples fought against each other. Everyone sided with his own tribe A against tribe B, and if tribe C was also an enemy of tribe B, then tribe C was automatically a friend of tribe A, even if tribe A and tribe C had previously been enemies 🙂
I just looked up “ latinidad” You have to excuse me that I don’t know the word despite the reality that everyone around here now seems to speak Spanish. I had heard that the word “Latinx” was a flop. ( it’s no wonder as “My Latin ex didn’t send the child support check this month”)
The various dictionaries online explained Latinidad as the quality of being from Mexico or South America. There’s a weird English translation “Latinity” that spellcheck doesn’t recognize. A Spanish dictionary tells us it’s a noun and feminine! Uh-oh! Maybe it needs to be masculine now. Do words trans? A quote from The Nation mentions that Latinidad isn’t a good enough word as it doesn’t indicate race! And some who have this Latinidad are Black!
I’m confused but then, I only speak English.
And regarding more comic book movies- How do you say “ Go woke, go broke” in Spanish?
Dan Garrett! The second best Blue Beetle next to Ted Kord. Both are much better than the Blue Beaner.
This sickening insistence by comics to rep;ace white male characters with so called minorities has to end. WTF. There are about ten Green Lanterns on Earth now to supposedly protect Sector 2814, and all but Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner are so called minorities, although I like Kyle Rayner and John Stewart. I hate the rest, especially the black lezzy.
Comics and most of their movies have become dog-shit, although “Black Adam” was good.
I hope “Blue Beaner” flops at the theaters.
Yeah, Latinos are more like a majority than a minority.
Especially in places like LA, Which means I don’t believe for a second that a black woman was elected mayor.
Apparently, “Blue Beaner” is number one at the box office now. At least “Barbie” was knocked down.
Yet another dumb movie I won’t watch. The Woke Left is on a Long March to ruin everything in our country. As a Latino on my mother’s side, what the heck is “latinidad?” I hate that term as much as I hate “latinx.” They can all pound sand.
I know, right? Why do lefties invent so many fake names for people?
That’s part of their program of screwing up our minds. Carlos Castaneda actually described it best, as screwing up our “tonal” (noone will understand what I’m talking about unfortunately 🙂
I understand. Carlos was trippy but his book is good.
I used to drop acid when I was a kid, and I ate San Pedro(?) cactus, which caused psychedelic effects if you could get it down. I was the only only of my friends who could eat enough of it to trip. All my other friends vomited. It tastes terrible. I never tried peyote, which apparently a rare substance. I bet I could find it online, though.
I think it’s legal for members of the Native American Church.