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Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent
I think Disney's content could be better if the social agenda was a little less front and center. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the message (inclusion and diversity in cherished stories that get a lot of eyeballs from young & impressionable audiences), it's just less fun when you can tell there was an MO/it was forced and that it came before creative decisions.
I thought they would moderate it a little after it first became a trend with new films and remakes (and for a time it was refreshing), but it's just ramped up more and sometimes I'm not sure if it isn't coming at the expense of the end product.
Now it's like Disney is petrified to release a film or show with a cast of white guys, or a hero movie where theres a strong male protagonist without a female character isn't portrayed as just as strong and capable. Not even saying a whitewashed cast is preferred, but each has its place based on the story, social context, etc. Sometimes stories are based in time periods where classes and racism existed, but it's being skewed away from historical accuracy in order to fit the casting memo that every new Disney product goes through.
If it fits the story and it's context where it feels like a natural fit and that the best casting choices were made for the script, then great. There are many examples of that. But if it's going to come across shoehorned at the cost of believability where it takes you out of the movie at many points, then it's costing the end product. And I'm a fan of getting to enjoy the best movies we can, even if not all of them pass the 21st century standards test with flying colours.
Disney (and other studios) certainly took the right initiative in recent years to move away from the what we saw through the '90s and even '00s, but I think there's such thing as taking anything a bit far.
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I beg to differ.
To a completely normal, non-online person, these things wouldn't even register if the Culture War buffoons didn't pluck these things out of press releases and turn them into An Issue.
Strange World's point of contention is an extremely minor blip on the radar in the schema of the entire movie.
Hell, the Lightyear scene lasts 2 freaking seconds.
But there's money in outrage, so endless hay is made by pundits to try and drum up hate-dollars among reactionaries. They are controlling the narrative because we give them the air to breathe, not because Disney has more diverse narratives.