"Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?"
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"Can We Make the Villain a White Guy?"
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#2Couldn't agree more. Fiction should be fictional and not be forced to carry today's immoral panic with it.
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#3It's quite a feat to see a trend towards predictable content that came from "second screen-ability", committees, laying off writers, large mergers, less money for indies, and walk away with this and go yeah it's woke that's destroying this. And to have zero data backing this claim up.
And we have this underlying assumption that no one of the left has ever wanted this sort of representation, is just a massive straw-man for this entire argument.
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#4Usually a South African :)
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#6I'm significantly more tired of the reactionary whinge machine re: 'progressive storytelling', to be perfectly honest.
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#7"one protagonist (who we know is good) and one antagonist (who we know is evil)"
The protagonist is merely the main character, while the antagonist is the person or group standing in their way.
There are many stories where the protagonist is evil/bad. Like I hope people don't think Walter White was good, while ASAC Schrader was bad.
And FWIW, while the pendulum went far into the "all non-whites are morally superior", just a couple of decades earlier minorities were almost always the bad guy. Like in the 80s an Arab or clearly Muslim character = terrorist. It was a lazy shortcut, just like the current waning "put in a black woman and she'll be superior to everyone" thing is a lazy shortcut.
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#8Gradually, over a 2 hour movie, change the protagonist from a white guy into a black woman and the villain from a black man into a white woman without the plot ever accounting for it.
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#9I really hate it when articles refer to “woke” as if it was a thing. I’ve never heard a consistent definition of that word, to the point it just seems like it means whatever the author doesn’t like
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#10I had to stop watching one of the Transformers movies when in the opening conflict they had to go beat up on some Muslims.
And those French gangster movies where the Turkish guy is the cool villain eroding lawful civic French values.
I find it refreshing when a plot is balanced with a white guy antagonist undermining the lawful order.
Whatever you think feel or believe, evil lurks within every kind of person. Our entertainment would reflect this as all forms of art imitate life.