{"id":1431028,"date":"2022-04-11T12:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431028"},"modified":"2022-04-11T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T16:59:59","slug":"31-woke-cinematic-moments-that-nearly-ruined-their-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/31-woke-cinematic-moments-that-nearly-ruined-their-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"31 Woke Cinematic Moments That Nearly Ruined Their Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F31-woke-cinematic-moments-that-nearly-ruined-their-movies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431028&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Woke-lines.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Wokeness is everywhere in Hollywood, from red carpet virtue signaling to Oscar diversity mandates set to transform the Best Picture race in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The movies themselves are often the richest sources of woke examples.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s increasingly common for a film to stop cold to deliver a lecture, wag a finger at the audience or just shove diversity dictates in our faces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These moments can come at any time in any kind of film, from horror movies to Marvel blockbusters \u2014 even sufficiently woke audiences cringe their way through them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Here are 31 woke film moments that epitomize the new, not-so-improved Hollywood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This Marvel blockbuster delivered not one but two exquisitely woke moments. The first comes as Captain America (Chris Evans) counsels a man who re-entered the dating scene following Thanos\u2019 civilian-killing snap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The man, played by the film\u2019s co-director Joe Russo, describes a recent date he had \u2026 with a man. It\u2019s an obvious nod to progressives who want more gay characters in Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) features. Russo himself said as much, though even the liberal Vulture <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2019\/04\/avengers-endgames-gay-moment-just-feels-exhausting.html\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> the sequence \u201cexhausting.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The second moment quickly became infamous. It\u2019s the final battle between Earth\u2019s mightiest heroes and Thanos\u2019 goon squad. The furious action stops as a wounded female Avenger is quickly surrounded by other female heroes, the ultimate girl power sequence. Except even woke outlets like The Mary Sue <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/endgame-girl-power-did-it-work\/\"><span>saw through<\/span><\/a><span> its pandering nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cCharlie\u2019s Angels\u201d (2019)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>You could argue this reboot was wall-to-wall woke, but its socially aware high point comes with the film\u2019s very first line. Kristen Stewart, one of the three new angels in the box office dud, tells a man, \u201cI think women can do anything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gentlemen, stop your engines. But there\u2019s more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Later in the film, director Elizabeth Banks drops in as Bosley. The woke moments continue when she says that \u201call women are starving all the time\u201d and complains about the challenges of dating as a 40-something woman.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Even far-Left Slate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2019\/11\/charlies-angels-2019-movie-reboot-kristen-stewart.html\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> the film is \u201cso concerned with its messaging that it fails to be fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cNo Time to Die\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The marketing team behind the latest Bond adventure hit 11 on the woke meter early and often. The actual film proved far less annoying, mostly focusing on Bondian stunts and supervillains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The story still squeezed in an ally moment when Q (Ben Whishaw) commented on meeting his boyfriend out of the blue. Once more, Hollywood tweaked a sequence to show its solidarity with the LGBTQ community, but some found it insufficient, including Whishaw himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The gay actor <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/ben-whishaw-james-bond-gay-character-unsatisfied-1235167497\/\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> the on-screen revelation \u201cunsatisfying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film also showed Bond himself (Daniel Craig) riding on the back of a speeding motorcycle driven by the new female 007 (Lashana Lynch). Can anyone imagine Sean Connery taking a back seat of any kind to a Bond girl?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cStar Trek Beyond\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This 2016 film stalled the space franchise, earning far less than its predecessors. It also caught the early woke wave by ignoring \u201cTrek\u201d canon. A brief moment early in the film finds John Cho as Sulu, reprising the role made famous by George Takei, alongside his husband. Lt. Sulu wasn\u2019t gay in the original \u201cStar Trek\u201d series or initial wave of films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Suddenly, he came out of the closet for a nanosecond of woke screen time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cCaptain Marvel\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Brie Larson may be the wokest actress in Hollywood, going so far as to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2019\/02\/brie-larson-minority-journalists-inclusive-captain-marvel-press-tour-1202043142\/\"><span>dictate<\/span><\/a><span> which journalists interview her based on identity politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Her 2019 Marvel debut followed suit, and she helped steer the MCU in its current woke direction. A key part of the film finds Captain Marvel being told to \u201ccontrol her emotions\u201d \u2014 a not-so-subtle nod to women being too emotional, a charge leveled by, you guessed it, the Patriarchy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In that same vein, a male biker tells the superheroine to \u201csmile more.\u201d That doesn\u2019t end well for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And, of course, one fight sequence is set to the No Doubt smash \u201cJust a Girl.\u201d Get it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cTerminator: Dark Fate\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This 2019 iteration stuck a fork in the long-running franchise and made sure we knew it was all about girl power. The marketing team even promoted the three female leads over Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was given a supporting role in the franchise he anchored for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film itself lived up to that marketing, to a degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This time around, the Sarah Connor-like hero is a Mexican immigrant, and the story involves a large section where our heroes mingle with illegal immigrants portrayed in a mostly flattering light. The ICE-style police, however, aren\u2019t so fortunate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Director Tim Miller later <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2020\/02\/28\/director-tim-miller-blames-get-woke-and-go-broke-sentiment-for-terminator-dark-fates-box-office-bomb\/\"><span>groused<\/span><\/a><span> that the \u201cget woke and go broke\u201d mindset hurt the film\u2019s box office chances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cBooksmart\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Where do we start? This 2019 box office dud might be the wokest movie since the movement began, but there are four key woke moments that come to mind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Our heroines (Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever) don Che Guevara-style outfits to their high school graduation party. A key graduation speech attacks white males. One young character is shown listening to an audio book so he can better respect women. A rando pizza dude warns the main characters, and the audience, how unsafe it is for women in society today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That\u2019s just a short list, and yet \u201cBooksmart\u201d is one of the more original teen comedies in recent years. First-time director Olivia Wilde infused the story with wit and style.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cStar Wars: Episode VIII \u2013 The Last Jedi\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Or, the movie that crushed George Lucas\u2019 beloved saga.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The second film in the most recent trilogy found Poe Dameron, played by the charismatic Oscar Isaac, being dressed down by Laura Dern\u2019s character mid-film for no credible reason. Emasculating the only character who could take the rogue baton from Han Solo didn\u2019t please many \u201cStar Wars\u201d fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That wasn\u2019t enough wokeness, though, for writer\/director Rian Johnson. He also created a wildly unnecessary detour mid-film set at a space casino. The sequences clumsily delivered an income inequality lecture (one percenters in space!).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And finally, poor Kelly Marie Tran. The actress likely thought she had it made when she landed the role of Rose Tico, another new face in the \u201cStar Wars\u201d galaxy. Sadly, the script made her the ultimate Mary Sue, a flawless character who lacked the depth of past heroes like Princess Leia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cThe Boy Behind the Door\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This 2020 thriller made the most of its spare setting and budget. Two best buddies are kidnapped by an unknown assailant, but one of the children breaks free and tries to rescue his friend.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mid-movie, the villain leaves the scene of the crime in a car with a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d bumper sticker on it. It\u2019s the perfect woke moment \u2014 it comes at us at random and signals the filmmaker\u2019s progressive bona fides. It also takes us right out of the film and has been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-boy-behind-the-door-movie-review-2021\"><span>described<\/span><\/a><span> even by liberal critics as \u201cgratuitous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cWonder Woman 1984\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s not \u201cCaddyshack II\u201d-level bad, but this sorry sequel proved a massive letdown from the marvelous 2017 film. It also upped the franchise\u2019s woke factor with three notable moments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>An early action sequence ends with Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) reaching out to a little girl awed by her superheroics. Later, the budding villain played by Kristen Wiig gets serially harassed by her co-workers because, well, she\u2019s a woman in the \u201980s and they\u2019re men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We also see a cab driver ignore a waiting Diana Prince, Wonder Woman\u2019s alter ego, for a male passenger. What cabbie wouldn\u2019t want to spend time with someone as lovely as Gadot?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cGhostbusters\u201d (2016)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Who you gonna call? Not this quartet of barely funny characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The woke marketing and mainstream media push behind the \u201cGhostbusters\u201d reboot set a new low. The film itself has its woke elements, like turning Annie Potts\u2019 clerk character into a male himbo (Chris Hemsworth).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The truly cringe-inducing scene, though, finds the budding ghostbusters confronting their online trolls. The moment mirrored the early reaction to the gender flip reboot, and rather than ignoring those silly responses the screenwriters wove it into the actual story. Empowering!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That sequence, like much of the movie, landed with a thud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cBeing the Ricardos\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Two things are immediately true about this behind-the-scenes look at \u201cI Love Lucy.\u201d Wokeness didn\u2019t exist in any way, shape or form during the 1950s, when the show reigned supreme in Hollywood. And star Lucille Ball, played by Nicole Kidman, wielded far more power than most women in the era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That didn\u2019t stop writer\/director Aaron Sorkin from penning a terrible scene where the show\u2019s female scribe (Alia Shawkat) asks Lucille to consider how she represents women on TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d aired today, that conversation would make sense. In the 1950s? Not on your life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cBorat Subsequent Moviefilm\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Audiences crave plenty from a \u201cBorat\u201d film. R-rated antics. Physical gags you can\u2019t wait to watch over and over again. And the lovable Borat making complete strangers uncomfortable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 2020 sequel attempted all of the above with modest rewards, but its big takeaway was so very un-Borat. The film builds an empowerment subplot for Borat\u2019s daughter, played by Maria Bakalova.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The movie came into existence to pry President Donald Trump from office, but the big thematic push proved so very, annoyingly woke.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cPromising Young Woman\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The very premise behind this Oscar-nominated thriller reeks of wokeness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Carey Mulligan stars as Cassie, an emotionally rattled woman who struggles to process an old friend\u2019s rape \u2014 a crime which went unpunished \u2014 and subsequent suicide. As a result, Cassie the avenger is born. She lures men in by feigning to be drunk and then either embarrasses them badly or does something far worse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In one scene, Cassie chuckles at the notion that a man accused of rape should be presumed innocent until proven guilty. To be fair, the film came at a time when the Left deployed the \u201cBelieve All Women\u201d card \u2026 before Joe Biden ran for the presidency in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cBirds of Prey\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This 2020 box office dud had wokeness in its creative DNA. Yes, these female characters are supervillains, but they\u2019re so strong and full of sisterhood. That wasn\u2019t enough, though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it moment, but one reason the film\u2019s villain (Ewan McGregor) loathes Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) is that she voted for \u2026 Bernie Sanders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cSolo: A Star Wars Story\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The ill-fated glimpse at Han Solo\u2019s backstory introduced us to a very different kind of droid. Meet L3-37, voiced by \u201cFleabag\u201d actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge. She doesn\u2019t beep and blurt like R2-D2 but spits out woke bon mots instead, like \u201cthey don\u2019t serve our kind here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When her owner, Lando Calrissian, asks if she needs anything, she says, \u201cequal rights.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Naturally, Vox had a problem with the woke bot, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/mischiefs-of-faction\/2018\/6\/1\/17406942\/woke-droid\"><span>complaining<\/span><\/a><span> it was a missed opportunity to explore robot culture and their rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cDownsizing\u201d\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Director Alexander Payne could do no wrong, or at least we thought that until this 2017 stinker. \u201cDownsizing\u201d imagines a technology that shrinks people so they take up less space and, more importantly, use less resources. There\u2019s an obvious eco-message there, but the film can\u2019t help but take a swipe at Trump\u2019s America, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We get talk of a \u201cwall\u201d and see people suffering as they live on the wrong side of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cLong Shot\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This Charlize Theron\/Seth Rogen misfire is woke to the core, from victimization tropes to Rogen\u2019s far-Left rants. One moment stands above the rest, though.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Theron\u2019s character, a politician with dreams of becoming Commander in Chief, cooks up a \u201cperfect\u201d climate change plan for the ages, and she and her team insist it will be her ticket to the Oval Office. Check any poll about hot-button issues and you\u2019ll see climate change ranks far lower than the economy, health care and other pressing concerns.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wokeness is everywhere in Hollywood, from red carpet virtue signaling to Oscar diversity mandates set to transform the Best Picture race in 2024.The movies themselves are often the richest sources<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}