Making movies just to entertain people. What a radial idea!
For nearly two decades, Hollywood has seemingly missed no opportunity to sound the alarm about climate change.
There have been cri de coeur documentaries, most notably "An Inconvenient Truth." Superheroes have been concerned, with Batman bemoaning mankind's treatment of the planet in "Justice League." Nary an award show goes by without a star or several begging viewers to take environment-saving action.
So it was startling when the weather-focused "Twisters" arrived from Universal Pictures this month with no mention of climate change at all. If ever there was a perfect vehicle to carry Hollywood's progressive climate change messaging — a big-budget movie about people caught in worsening storm patterns — wasn't this it?
Apparently not. Movies should not be about "preaching a message," Lee Isaac Chung, who directed "Twisters," said in a prerelease interview that served as a dog whistle to conservative ticket buyers.
Not surprisingly, The Times is startled with the outcome of the movie Twisters because it didn't include climate change propaganda thinking that film would be a prime candidate to make the case for climate change. Thankfully, the movie's director, Lee Isaac Chung, told CNN it was out of the question.
What was hilarious was The Times describing what happened to the company behind the Academy Award winning, climate alarmist film An Inconvenient Truth:
For 20 years, Participant Media was Hollywood's pre-eminent maker of films with a conscience. "An Inconvenient Truth" was one of its early successes. But the company shut down in April. Participant relied on studios and streaming services to distribute its eat-your-broccoli documentaries and dramas about underrepresented communities, and those partners have cut back on such "niche" content in favor of more populist offerings.
What's even more encouraging is Marvel Studios' recent movie release, Deadpool and Wolverine, is not only doing very well at the box office, but breaks a number of Hollywood taboos. The film ridicules the woke direction Disney took with its movies, derides the state of Marvel Studios, and even makes fun of homosexuality.
If movies include political messaging, it changes the nature of the story and characters. The result are audiences that are often times disappointed because movies are a form of escapism and cannot and should not be an educational or political venue.
Movie production companies have the right to put whatever content they want in their films, but they're finally realizing that people are voting with their wallets and not going to support their nonsense any longer. Moviegoers are putting teeth in the term get woke go broke by, rightly, no longer paying to have political or woke messaging shoved down their throats.
PHOTO CREDIT: Pixabay
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