{"id":1526453,"date":"2022-06-23T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T12:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526453"},"modified":"2022-06-23T08:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T12:20:33","slug":"dull-lightyear-is-another-victim-of-bored-woke-filmmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dull-lightyear-is-another-victim-of-bored-woke-filmmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dull \u2018Lightyear\u2019 Is Another Victim Of Bored, Woke Filmmakers"},"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%2Fdull-lightyear-is-another-victim-of-bored-woke-filmmakers%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=1526453&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/buzz-e1655834261138.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Even with the titanic marketing force of Disney and buzz (no pun intended) around featuring a lesbian couple kissing, \u201cLightyear\u201d proved to be a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/20\/after-disney-doubles-down-on-sexualizing-kids-lightyear-falls-way-short-at-box-office\/\">flop<\/a>. Although it was expected to top the charts and bring in $70 million in its first weekend (a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/06\/18\/nolte-disneys-big-gay-lightyear-is-latest-woke-box-office-flop\/\">modest goal<\/a>, all things considered), the movie made $51 million, second behind the newest Jurassic Park installment. For context, \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/30\/top-gun-maverick-box-office-tom-cruise-gets-first-100m-opening\/\">made more than $100 million<\/a> in its opening weekend.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s fair to see this as yet another instance of the truism, \u201cgo woke, go broke,\u201d it\u2019s worth asking why Disney keeps doing this. They have a whole slew of perfectly profitable franchises to tap, and they can churn out blockbusters from any of them without breaking a sweat. Why do they feel the need to shoehorn a scene of lesbians kissing that no asked for? Why did they <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/07\/disney-doubles-down-on-lgbtq-programming-with-lightyear-and-more\/\">double-down against their own audience<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Probably the first and foremost reason that Disney executives do this is because they can. They believe they have a monopoly over young audiences and can start treating them like a captive audience. Daniel Greenfield <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2022\/04\/disneys-business-model-turning-kids-dysfunctional-daniel-greenfield\/\">makes a convincing case<\/a> in Frontpage Mag that this is exactly what Disney is thinking: \u201cDisney may have started out feeding the imaginations of children, but now its business model is acquiring intellectual properties with active fandoms and milking the adult fans for every cent.\u201d Rest assured, Disney will keep issuing more sequels and spinoffs ad nauseam, knowing full well that their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/the-science-fandom\/202103\/is-fandom-cult\">cult-like fandoms<\/a> will continue to watch them.<\/p>\n<p>When entertaining people becomes secondary, it\u2019s only natural to propagate a message. These days, that message is diversity, inclusion, and equity (<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/opinion\/jordan-peterson-why-i-am-no-longer-a-tenured-professor-at-the-university-of-toronto\">DIE, as Jordan Peterson puts it<\/a>), which has become the standard in all popular entertainment. For example, it was clear \u201cFrozen II\u201d would make a lot of money just because it was \u201cFrozen II,\u201d so its creators decided to turn the movie into a convoluted propaganda piece that spoke on the environment, the treatment of indigenous people, and female empowerment. No one seemed to mind that the movie was terrible, and there\u2019s little doubt that Disney will make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/movies\/a29831651\/frozen-3-release-date-trailer-cast-plot\/\">another sequel <\/a>when the time is right.<\/p>\n<h2>Are Moviemakers Simply Boring?<\/h2>\n<p>However, what really seems to lie at the heart of this decision to promote lesbianism in a kid\u2019s movie is something much more profound and personal than anyone cares to admit. Disney filmmakers and most of the creative class in Hollywood have become boring. They aren\u2019t all that interesting, and nothing really interests them. Action, drama, romance, and all the magic of moviemaking doesn\u2019t excite them anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, like bored teenagers addicted to TikTok, Disney executives are more interested in identity politics and social justice, and they believe that everyone else is interested in this too. Sure, people may watch the new show about Obi-wan Kenobi because they know and love the character, but what\u2019s really going to hook them is the black female antagonist because she\u2019s (wait for it) black and female. And, if they don\u2019t like her, they\u2019re haters and Disney will delight in taking a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R7KZnsvFD88\">quixotic stand<\/a> against these anonymous bigots.<\/p>\n<p>Wokeness has become a vicious cycle for privileged creators: success makes them bored, so they go woke, but this bores them again, so they double-down on their wokeness, which soon becomes boring, etc. This cycle is then reinforced by social media, which affirms these people\u2019s narcissism and casts their dissatisfied fans as ignorant bigots.<\/p>\n<p>Seen from a healthy distance, this phenomenon of bored filmmakers injecting wokeness in \u201cLightyear\u201d makes little sense. How can anyone be bored by a story about a space ranger fighting for his friends on a distant planet? Why would they feel the need to spice this up with wokeness? Was depicting acts of valor against space aliens not enough?<\/p>\n<h2>Worldview of the Woke<\/h2>\n<p>And yet, this is how a woke person sees the world. Discussing a theologian\u2019s bold (and nonsensical) claim that Jesus was actually a transgender person, Catholic writer <a href=\"https:\/\/spectatorworld.com\/topic\/white-jesus-enter-trans-jesus\/\">Michael Warren Davis notes<\/a> how narrow this view is: \u201cThe Bible is the most profound and influential book in the whole history of the world. It contains the philosophy of Jesus Christ, the most important philosopher and mystic in world history \u2026 Now, imagine if all you could find in those pages was a parable for transvestic fetishism. What a boring little place your head must be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For most people, this is the real problem with the woke agenda: it\u2019s boring and predictable. Perhaps a few people were outraged when they heard of the lesbian kiss in \u201cLightyear,\u201d but the majority people likely rolled their eyes and muttered, \u201cOh okay. I\u2019ll pass then.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Propaganda over Entertainment<\/h2>\n<p>Not surprisingly, these people\u2019s suspicions were confirmed. The movie was indeed dull: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2022\/06\/lightyear-pixar-toy-story-movie-review\/661296\/\">characters were flat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2022\/06\/lightyear-is-consumerism-for-kids\/\">the story was dumb<\/a>, and the themes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2022\/06\/lightyear-cynically-blasts-into-familiar-territory\">resonate more with adults suffering from a midlife crisis than with actual kids<\/a>. Clearly, the creators of the movie were more worried about indulging themselves and crafting woke propaganda than in entertaining audiences. It\u2019s the work of bored people putting out a boring product for an increasingly bored audience that\u2019s burned out on the wokeness.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, filmmakers at Disney can learn from this mistake and break the cycle. The world is so much more than people\u2019s skin color and sexual orientation, and the possibilities for storytelling are endless. These people need to get over their boredom, stop obsessing over diversity and representation, and return to making fun movies that transcend all that and really go \u201cto infinity and beyond.\u201d It\u2019d be a win-win: Fans would be happy, filmmakers would find purpose again, and the modern entertainment in general would be slightly less mediocre.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Auguste Meyrat is an English teacher in the Dallas area. He holds an MA in humanities and an MEd in educational leadership. He is the senior editor of The Everyman and has written essays for The Federalist, The American Conservative, and The Imaginative Conservative, as well as the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeyratAuguste\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the titanic marketing force of Disney and buzz (no pun intended) around featuring a lesbian couple kissing, \u201cLightyear\u201d proved to be a flop. 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