They aren't putting the same films in different theaters based on the audience. I don't get the separate but equal line here as it relates to artistic endeavors. Is it not diverse to have different options that may appeal more to one culture than another?
Think of how clear the writing on the wall must have been for Disney to do this!
You realize films are going to have multiple streams of messaging to help it find a broad variety of audience, right? Remember the 2016 Nissan Rogue: Star Wars edition? That's was to try to connect a particular audience to the film and capitalize on the fandom, but it wasn't the only marketing effort and it wasn't like the entire film was designed to sell SUVs.FWIW - Go do a quick search with your search engine of choice about "Star Wars feminism" and look at the articles that pop up from around the time TFA was coming out. There were deliberate decisions made to move in the direction they moved. Maybe the people Kathleen Kennedy hired to staff the Lucasfilm Story Group had something to do with it...
I mean, couldn't it be an earnest effort that was also an attempt to capitalize on what audiences cared about with all that was going on in the country/world at the time?
We still don't know what the actual story of the ride is going to be. But ok, even if it's "Louis lost is trumpet" or "you're the missing ingredient," what you might consider to be "overly complex" might just be authentic to the Black experience of the team. It may even be more than that: I could include additional layers that the WDI team thinks general audiences are going to need in order to connect with a storytelling approach, tradition, experience they might not be as familiar with.
Oh, I don't think Disney fans are a monolithic group at all. I've been very pleased to see indications that Disney has, finally begun to realize that they don't just have one audience, but many smaller audiences.
Certainly exclusion is not inclusion, and I get your point in this reply. But "quotas" can lead to other types of exclusion.
Here's an interesting article about Leia as a feminist icon. It shows she wasn't always widely seen that way!
Those things feel contradictory, no?
To be clear, we're in absolute agreement here. I actually support, from a macro-level, TBA. I just think it's been muddied and as a result, gives a lot for the Disney Park fandom to clamor on about which in turn distracts from the purpose and meaning it's meant to serve.
I don't think "rejection of inclusion" is the problem here.
IMO the problem with Disney has lately been the focus on forcing D/I and/or messaging vs good storytelling and entertainment as in the past.
It crushes the comic book industry every time its tried (and they try it a ton). I'd like to say only Marvel Comics could have a series of billion dollar films in the marketplace featuring iconic Marvel characters (Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor, Bruce Banner) and simultaneously let the malcontents working for them replace all of these characters in the comic books so that kids can't find them anywhere if they went looking for them ... I'd like to say it, but I can't because DC Comics has the same malcontent employees and would be just as dumb if they were given the opportunity (if they could get billion dollar films off the ground).
Yeah, those kids that came of age during the prequels who are…(checks notes, in their 20’s) aren’t going to live forever
The creatives behind the only major ride under construction have trumpeted its empowerment more than just about anything else
And it almost feels fake, doesn't it?
same thing
Those are the people making movies/shows nowadays so it seems like they just want to make stuff for theirselves.
