re: Disney Exec Blames The Marvels Flop on Bigoted Audience Members

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Disney Exec Blames The Marvels Flop on Bigoted Audience Members

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They misspelled “disinterested”.

Coco
Encanto
Zootopia
Moana

All would be considered "woke" but were huge successes. Why weren't audiences too bigoted for those? I would suggest someone dick punch the exec but they probably would like it.

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Having Rey be a Mary Sue isn’t her fault and she did the best with what she had to work with.

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this.
a couple of quick "throwaway" lines or one extra scene or two changes everything and makes her acceptable.

Showing Luke as having a workshop and cleaning/maintenancing Droids took what 30 seconds of screentime in A New Hope? And they did a good job of incorporating that into him seeing the Leia video.

That tells us he's mechanically inclined and knows a few things about technology. So when he does something later, it makes sense.

Rey never shows us anything of the sort. We know nothing about her at all. She lives in broken shite and collects scraps. But she knows how to fix the Falcon somehow.

Obi Wan telling Luke "I hear you've become a fine pilot".
One sentence. But it tells us that he's been flying around enough to have built a reputation. So when he does fancy flying, it makes sense.

Rey, some orphan that collect junk just magically knows how to be an amazing pilot.
throw us a sentence in there somewhere that tells us it's not her first time doing something.

fix just those 2 things, and your audience is already more invested n her and you can get away with a lot more after that.

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Coco
Encanto
Zootopia
Moana

All would be considered "woke" but were huge successes. Why weren't audiences too bigoted for those? I would suggest someone dick punch the exec but they probably would like it.

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I've never thought of any of those four as woke. Just because a movie has a female or minority main character doesn't make it woke. It just has to make sense.

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I've never thought of any of those four as woke. Just because a movie has a female or minority main character doesn't make it woke. It just has to make sense.

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That’s what I was getting at. You can have any theme you want and if it’s well told it will do well. That’s done well for them historically. Parents REALLY want entertainment options for kids.

When you start shoehorning in DEI for no reason other than a quota and your storytelling takes a backseat, you get what you’ve seen lately.

I do think the sexual identity bridge is too far for a lot of parents out there still though. I’d be willing to bet if polled they don’t want anything more than a little prince/princess flirting in the movies their little kids are consuming.

Not really.

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Other companies are better at what they supposedly do and their competitors do fewer obnoxious things

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If Universal's new park in Orlando is successful, Disney will need to be very worried. Currently Walt Disney World is doing better than any other segment of the company, and they aren't investing in it.

ETA: Or they invest in the parks stupidly, like the Star Wars Battlecruiser that was obviously never going to be successful and should have never made it out of the idea phase and the retheme of Splash Mountain that no one who actually pays to visit the theme parks actually wants.