Is Hollywood Actually Woke?

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Next time Hollywood pretends to be woke with all their reimagining for modern audiences, I'm just gonna bring up a term that I should have used a long time ago.

Selling out.

This was a great skewering of the alleged woke Hollywood elite:

Everyone who is angry at wokeness in Hollywood should realise part of the problems is us.

I'll give you two examples
Example 1. I was watching the animated version of the Witcher (A Netflix owned production) made in 2021. The tale is set in a medieval era but it's a fantasy realm. The opening scenes show a horse and carriage traversing a dirt road. The man steering from a distance was a tall bearded man with no hair dressed in an outfit that would be typical of medieval England. As the camera pans closer the bearded man looks slightly tanned but apart from that I think nothing of it. He suddenly stops the carriage to check on the passengers. He calls to them, they are his kids. This is where my brain was suddenly confronted by an image took some time to process. The three children who stuck their heads out of the window speaking perfect Oxford English were all African in appearance. I wasn't expecting it.

Did this ruin my experience? no. My brain caught up. This is a) animated b) it's a fantasy realm and c) in such a genre you can caricature characters to look like anyone. I'm sure there are many who will argue the experience is not authentic because there were no Africans in medieval England. But here's the thing. It's not England. It's a fantasy realm with a weird name. In such a realm there are no hard rules. I happily watch till the end because it's creative and fun. I am not stuck in dogma.

Example 2 - Another Netflix series called Carnival Row stars A listers Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne set in what looks like industrial England. Everyone speaks with a cockney accent and the leaders/rich people speak with an Oxford accent. In such a fantasy realm there are the fay. magical creatures who live among humans. The fay are treated as vermin the same way as slaves would have been treated prior to it's abolition. What complicates this binary separation is the appearance of black people among the ruling class. Indeed the main protaganist is an wealthy attractive biracial woman. The Fay also include black but the vast majority of main characters are white. The image of wealthy black people treating white people as slaves turns the tables in my brain on how history actually was.

If this was an actual historical drama like Bridgerton it would annoy me for being innaccurate, But it wasn't, It was yet another fantasy realm. remember, in the fantasy world (or science fiction world) anything goes. Once you are open to new experiences, you see it for what it is. Just another creative art form.

Actually I think the best thing to ever happen (not that it ever WILL happen) would be if Americans stopped watching movies and start to read books or go outside and do some gardening or take up a useful hobby that exercises our minds and bodies.

I'm starting to see that Hollowood has become nothing more than a mind-numbing body-killing propaganda machine. It's basically a drug pushed on us by the system to tell us how to think and to give us fake beautiful people to compare ourselves to so that we always feel like our worth as human beings is less important.

I find myself watching less tv and playing less video games these days after I had an epiphany about this when I realized my body is slowly dying from not living an active lifestyle since childhood. I have every right to blame our culture for literally worshipping the big magic box in their living rooms and bedrooms.

Racism in showbusiness aside, Americans really would be so much happier doing other hobbies and learning life skills. But clearly our government doesnt want that for us. That's what I honestly think now.

One of the things I hate so much about movies is that they always warp the truth about everything like historic events to other people's cultures to the point that the masses who watch these movies take it all in as fact.

We need more education and less movies.

Speaking of the Anne Bolyen movie, I wonder what exactly gave anyone the idea that black women would watch it and want to be the second wife of Henry the VIII?

Her life wasnt exactly a Disney fairy tale to anybody who studies British history and knows that her father was essentially pimping her out to the king in order to gain favor while the king was still married and when Henry grew tired of her he divorced her, publicly shamed her, and had her beheaded on so many false accusations.

I think there has to be potentially better role models for black women (or women in general) than her. Why not cast aside that pasty white Elizabeth Taylor and make a Cleopatra movie starring a black actress? Or perhaps one about Nefertiti?

I know there's debate about what the actual race of the Egyptian people and these female rulers were but at the same time these were both very powerful and effective women in leadership connected to one of the greatest civilizations in Africa.

It's just a thought...