The Left Wanted the Culture War They’re Now Losing
The article discusses the shifting dynamics in Hollywood regarding cultural narratives and representation. It argues that the industry's embrace of progressive ideologies has led to a backlash, resulting in a loss of audience engagement. The author reflects on the consequences of prioritizing identity politics over traditional storytelling.
- ▪Hollywood's current approach to filmmaking is criticized for being influenced by progressive ideologies.
- ▪The author suggests that the industry's focus on identity politics has alienated a significant portion of its audience.
- ▪Recent controversies, such as the backlash against Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, highlight the tensions between traditional narratives and modern interpretations.
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A long time ago, the 20th Century, Hollywood knew how to make movies that entertained and enlightened. Their writers weren’t young saps indoctrinated by academia-boosted French Theory with disdain for more than half the audience, or DEI hires filling a quota. They were artists who respected the world they lived in and the history they inherited, whether they liked it or not. Any criticism of either came through in their storytelling, rather than sermonizing to people who know better than they.As both a fiction writer and journalist in the first camp, I could see the coming victory in the Culture War years ago, and its reshaping of the entire geopolitical structure of the West, and by extension the world.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.
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