NY Times: The Woke Movies Era Is Dead
Far-left outlet scolds DEI films as preachy, dated and dull
The corporate media, by and large, learned nothing from President-Elect Donald Trump’s Nov. 5 victory.
No major outlet has circled back to the biggest media scandal of our age – a major political party pretended its leader wasn’t diminished by a dementia-like condition.
The recent ProPublica scandal proves journalists are still activists first and foremost.
Yet signs of change can be seen across the media landscape.
The LA Times is looking to hire more right-leaning scribes to bring balance to its hard-Left content. The hosts of “Morning Joe” paid President-Elect Donald Trump a visit to find something resembling common ground.
The most shocking revelation?
The New York Times uncorked a withering attack on woke Hollywood movies. The piece flexes its progressive bona fides, but large swathes of the article could have been written by The Critical Drinker or Film Threat’s Chris Gore.
The headline and subhead are stunning and brave in their bluntness.
Is the Awkward ‘Diversity Era’ of Hollywood Behind Us?
The past decade’s clumsiest attempts to cram new faces into old stories now feel like a moment, and a genre, of their own.
The same paper that erupted in fury over a Sen. Tom Cotton op-ed let this missive through?
The biggest takeaway? The woke movies era is over. Done. Kaput. And The New York Times appears happy to report it.
The tropes of this passing era are as familiar and easily spotted as with older periods. There is, for one thing, the showy, self-satisfied gender-swapping, as with that 2016 election-year reboot of “Ghostbusters.”
Yes, the essay has that hard-Left Times veneer, but it also points to serious cultural flaws in the dying era. The op-ed also pays tribute to classic movies, even the “problematic” 007 franchise.
The old Bond films are distinctly of their era but feel timeless; what’s surprising is how quickly this one, in its desperation to be modern, has come to feel dated.
Did Breitbart’s John Nolte sneak into the Old Gray Lady’s headquarters?
The article notes that many beloved movies from the past are still fun to watch, something that does not apply to woke films of this era.
At all.
There’s even a direct attack on liberal critics who, presumably, overpraised woke films because they had the correct message. That’s something Richard Roeper said when reviewers cheered on 2016’s “Ghostbusters” reboot.
At least we no longer have to pretend to like something because it has the right politics, or because the people most vocally against it are Nazis.
Turns out those “Nazis” were right. It’s stunning that The New York Times, of all outlets, shared that news.
The last 10 years will be a blank in the history of films.
If you are an insulated, out of touch, woman studies writer or Hollywood’s narcissists funny boy studio executives at Disney and wonder why the high failure rate, figure this out…
Trying to social engineer programs and gender bending roles kills the industry. All you see now from Disney is minority actors and feminist actresses, You never see kissing, unless it is gays. Where have the white men gone?
I’ll believe it when the studios get rid of all the diversity hires they placed in positions of power. They’re the ones who greenlighted movies and TV shows that only checked boxes and were awful to watch.
Bring back all the people (white men) who were great at making entertaining movies!
All these cultural institutions that went hard left in 2008 the moment the Lightbringer was elected have now decided that this revolution has failed and they must tack back to the center and bide their time until the next Manchurian Candidate ascends to the throne and the next revolution is commenced.
For myself, they have permanently branded themselves enemies of the American People. The fact that they so facilely turn a 180 and denounce their erstwhile allies only tells me that they are utterly unprincipled.
A pox on them all.
Can’t help but feel this article had H’wood’s tacit (or not so tacit) approval. Studios have been bleeding money, and there’s only so much Blackrock and other ESG investors can funnel to them, especially with new leadership in the White House, and facing numerous lawsuits. I think the studios may use the article as permission to dump the activists, and pursue the actual people paying the bills: the audience.
I had to double check that this article wasn’t dated April 1st.
Hey Biff? WHAT’S THAT?!