Very slowly at any rate. But that seems to be the default mode for Hollywood which on the one hand took a beating when its wokeness went into hyperdrive, but at the same time is still staffed up with obsessive wokes forcing bosses to try and pull back on the insanity. When they fail to do that, the end result is something completely grotesque like Starfleet Academy. But when they pull back, it’s like 55% woke, which we’re supposed to take as some sort of win.
Anyway, here’s Disney’s Pixar very slowly backing away from Wokeland without really leaving the parking lot.
Two new directors made a slew of changes, including excising elements that suggested Elio was gay. Earlier versions included a pink bicycle and a scene in which he imagined raising a child with his male crush, according to people who worked on the movie. The changes disappointed some at Pixar, which has gender-neutral bathrooms and a history of supporting LGBT employees. They were further discouraged by the removal of references to a character being transgender in a Disney+ series called “Win or Lose.”
Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said.
And more recently…
“Hoppers” features zanier cartoon comedy and less tear-inducing pathos than audiences may expect from the studio behind “Up.” During production, the filmmakers toned down its pro-environmentalism story in an effort to make it more balanced. “It felt like a message movie,” Morris said.
Everything feels like a message movie. And most audiences are tired of message movies especially since Hollywood’s message is as predictable as the killer in an episode of Columbo. But the industry hasn’t fundamentally changed anything. The current formula is to take the weapons grade wokeness and dilute it by X percent so it seems more bearable. At least at studios that are troubled and need major hits. Meanwhile the same people are still at the wheel.
