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The new literalism plaguing today’s movies

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231 points frogulis | 7 comments | 15 Jul 25 03:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.529s | source | bottom
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Lerc ◴[15 Jul 25 21:20 UTC] No.44575933[source]▶
The Wachowski's once commented that the Red Pill movement was a message to them telling them to never be subtle again.

Another data point. Most people seem to think that replicants are detected because they are unemotional.

I would prefer filmmakers not assume the least of their audiences, but I would also rather that audiences not give them reason to.

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1. smt88 ◴[15 Jul 25 21:45 UTC] No.44576140[source]▶
The creator of The Boys has also said he needs to beat people over the head so he doesn't have a similar situation to Mad Men or Breaking Bad, where people think the main character is a hero to emulate
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2. Lerc ◴[15 Jul 25 22:08 UTC] No.44576358[source]▶
Yeah, I guess The same problem exists with The Watchmen and Fight Club.

I found it fascinating how the term snowflake was changed because the character that people admired told their proxies that they were not snowflakes. The meaning at the time was that they were homogenous and unremarkable. Snowflakes represented the opposite where each individual snowflake has a unique pattern. That viewpoint was not empowering so they took the metaphor to be about the fragility of snowflakes.

3. rbanffy ◴[15 Jul 25 22:31 UTC] No.44576562[source]▶
It was hilarious when the far-right noticed, IIRC on season 3 of The Boys, that they were being mocked.

And just look at all Star Wars fans cosplaying as stormtroopers. It even says “evil empire” in the first movie intro. You can’t get much more obvious than George Lucas.

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4. nitwit005 ◴[16 Jul 25 00:13 UTC] No.44577332[source]▶
The Star Wars fans aren't missing that they're dressing up as the bad guys. People dress up as evil characters all the time.
5. int_19h ◴[16 Jul 25 00:15 UTC] No.44577344[source]▶
People have been consciously cosplaying as villains for decades because pretending to be evil can be fun as hell; I'm not sure what that's supposed to illustrate, really.
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6. andrewstuart ◴[16 Jul 25 04:49 UTC] No.44578775[source]▶
Are you saying people are mistakenly thinking that the stormtroopers are “good guys” and wouldn’t play them if they’d realized they are “bad guys”?
7. rbanffy ◴[16 Jul 25 09:50 UTC] No.44580443{3}[source]▶
You all (you, nitwit005, andrewstuart) make a very good point. Besides, having a red helmet with "Make The Empire Great Again" would be hilarious.