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Do moviemakers have a PC list of themes they try to adhere to today?

posted 7 years ago by whynotwriteme (7720)
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Do they deliberately try to include all the PC favorites? This one includes protagonists who were gays, blacks, the handicapped; presenting white heterosexual men as evil; alternate sexual practices shown as good; the idea that pre-hippie 60s were an evil time and probably many many more cherished Liberal themes.

Del Toro HAD to be trying to fill out some sort of sacred cow checklist when he made this, right?

[–] nichijou (9) 7 years ago

there's a mute female lead and her black friend and a dude (?) that's like a father figure thing...

How is this some forced PC thing, it's pretty normal to me? Minus the token black friend?
Wait til they make movies about a non-binary limbless black latinx trans womyn.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

Yes, all the bad guys were white, heterosexual males.

I don't believe it's so much criticism of white, heterosexual males in general as the truth of the times: In those days, white heterosexual males were the only ones who got to be corrupted by institutional power.