I’m going to get controversial, but if you’re part of the so-called “woke crowd” you may want to see this because frankly you’re the ones being played by mainstream media. Conservatives, this is something for us to think about as well, because there’s something here I think is being lost in the political discourse that everybody is sleeping on.

I haven’t seen Strange World and I don’t plan to. This trailer above (if it’s still up when you read this) is the most I know about this movie and frankly it doesn’t look very interesting. Apparently people who can afford to go to the theater agree as the movie has been failing at the box office. As Disney keeps putting out live-action de-makes of the animated films of the “Disney Renaissance” 1990s due to being hurt that Hollywood shoved animation into their own category and wants their famous movies to be Oscar-Worthy with the media snob of the Academy Awards and the ego-driven celebrities who think a movie is only good if their face shows up in it, they seem to have also lost the heart and effort that made those movies so beloved alongside the classics made or supported by Uncle Walt himself.

Where we get controversial is something I realized in the discussion about this movie. I can’t comment to how “woke” the movie is or isn’t, but I saw this tweet…mostly because everyone who discusses this movie brings it up…from Brianna Wu.

Who is Brianna Wu? No, really, I’m asking. Apparently she’s a big deal to somebody and a huge joke to others but I literally have no idea who she is. This tweet has been used as an example of the poor marketing surrounding this movie. This is apparently all the poster thinks is important to the movie. Well, whether I’m conservative or libertarian (my friend says the latter but labels are BS) I can see that we’ve rewritten the word “target audience” to something more like “targeting with our anger”.

Biracial marriage? Hell, I’ve been advocating that for years on this site. I’ve seen advertisements for laundry detergent and Crohn’s medication that did it right: just a couple who happens to be of two different skin colors. Gay characters? Yeah, they’re all over the place now, including shows for kids. In fact now you can’t win an Oscar without at least one. Literally; that’s a rule along with a quota of minority characters…like the ones I grew up with and could fill this with links to articles talking about that if I had time, along with the women heroes I grew up with. Climate change metaphor? Something doesn’t have that nowadays? Disabled dog?

This is Rex. He rescues dinosaurs. He’s a good pup. I come from the 1980s, where heroes in wheelchairs happens a lot. What does the dog in this movie do? The thing is Hollywood and other sectors of the entertainment industry are selling the usual suspects a lot of bull, and in their dash to see representation, and I’m not even against that in general, they don’t realize they’re being used…and if they do know, they’re okay with it. That may make them the biggest suckers. What do I mean when I say Hollywood is using representation as a gimmick rather than actually changing how they’ve approached minorities in the past? Allow me to explain my point of view, then judge…if you have the guts, and the internet has proven neither side does.

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