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Very slowly at any rate. But that seems to be the default mode for Hollywood which on the one hand took a beating when its wokeness went into hyperdrive, but at the same time is still staffed up with obsessive wokes forcing bosses to try and pull back on the insanity. When they fail to do that, the end result is something completely grotesque like Starfleet Academy. But when they pull back, it’s like 55% woke, which we’re supposed to take as some sort of win.
Anyway, here’s Disney’s Pixar very slowly backing away from Wokeland without really leaving the parking lot.
Two new directors made a slew of changes, including excising elements that suggested Elio was gay. Earlier versions included a pink bicycle and a scene in which he imagined raising a child with his male crush, according to people who worked on the movie. The changes disappointed some at Pixar, which has gender-neutral bathrooms and a history of supporting LGBT employees. They were further discouraged by the removal of references to a character being transgender in a Disney+ series called “Win or Lose.”
Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said.
And more recently…
“Hoppers” features zanier cartoon comedy and less tear-inducing pathos than audiences may expect from the studio behind “Up.” During production, the filmmakers toned down its pro-environmentalism story in an effort to make it more balanced. “It felt like a message movie,” Morris said.
Everything feels like a message movie. And most audiences are tired of message movies especially since Hollywood’s message is as predictable as the killer in an episode of Columbo. But the industry hasn’t fundamentally changed anything. The current formula is to take the weapons grade wokeness and dilute it by X percent so it seems more bearable. At least at studios that are troubled and need major hits. Meanwhile the same people are still at the wheel.
Pixar used to be located in my neighborhood. Their employees used to walk by my house during lunch hour 🙂
Disney who? … Never heard of ’em …
Unless they go through and fire everyone and start hiring normal people based on merit, this will never happen. Even the art style is trash now.
How can Disney expect kids to enjoy a movie if they don’t know which characters to celebrate for being gay, lesbian, bisexual, transexual, queer, questioning, etc.?
These movies will still suck. My sons used to think I was extremely weird to not let them watch Disney movies when they were young, now they thank me for not exposing them to that gay, retarded bullshit.
I have tried to avoid the product of Hollywood for many years now – and intend to continue doing so.
“Everything feels like a message movie.”
Because every movie ever made IS a message movie. Arguably even the medium is the message (Piss Christ). The message is always about the good and beautiful or the evil and ugly. Perhaps “propaganda” is a better word? Disney has turned to propaganda to induce us to believe what is evil is good and what is ugly is beautiful.
Isaiah 5:20 “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”
When they say ‘message movie’ they men lecture.
Lectures are boring.
Lectures forced into entertainment are condescending.
Lectures are not a conversation, nor do they spark one.
As the sci-fi author Roger Zelazny (want to contemplate identity woven into a story? Read his ‘Lord of Light’) put it:
“I have no objection to the expression of political opinions in SF if they are an integral part of the story structure. I don’t at all appreciate their intrusion for the purpose of converting a story into a political tract, because I consider that intellectually insulting.”
“Up” may have been the lst Pixar movies I watched, since then noting but dreck