{"id":1606911,"date":"2022-08-15T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606911"},"modified":"2022-08-15T13:48:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:48:26","slug":"netflixs-purple-hearts-director-defends-movie-against-criticism-its-racist-and-pro-military-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/netflixs-purple-hearts-director-defends-movie-against-criticism-its-racist-and-pro-military-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix\u2019s \u2018Purple Hearts\u2019 Director Defends Movie Against Criticism It\u2019s \u2018Racist\u2019 And \u2018Pro-Military Propaganda\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fnetflixs-purple-hearts-director-defends-movie-against-criticism-its-racist-and-pro-military-propaganda%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=1606911&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--><p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> movie \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/watch\/movies\">Purple Hearts<\/a>\u201d is receiving backlash despite being one of the platform\u2019s \u201cmost-watched\u201d offerings right now, with more than 100 million streaming hours, per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/amatullahshaw\/sofia-carson-netflix-purple-hearts-defense\">Buzzfeed<\/a>. Critics call it \u201canti-Arab\u201d and \u201cpro-military propaganda,\u201d but the film\u2019s director has a different take.<\/p>\n<p>On the Netflix <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81043665?source=35\">page<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/entertainment\">romantic comedy<\/a> is described as being about \u201can aspiring musician [who] agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.\u201d The main character Cassie (Sofia Carson) marries Luke (Nicholas Galitzine) after being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and struggling to afford insulin.<\/p>\n<p>The backlash against the movie\u2019s themes became so extreme that the film\u2019s director decided to address it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPurple hearts is us military propaganda that uses the invasion &#038; deaths of 1.2 million iraqis as a romcom,\u201d one detractor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hibou2799\/status\/1557108398667272193\">shared<\/a>. \u201cNot to mention him defending his racist friend &#038; telling her to sit down &#038; stop it when she called him out after he was cheering with \u2018hunting down some g**damm Arabs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t get the hype in the movie \u2018purple hearts.\u2019 clearly a straight up military propaganda + the blatant racism in it,\u201d another Twitter critic responded in a now-deleted tweet, per Buzzfeed. \u201ca latina changing her beliefs just to be with a white military racist guy. enemies to lovers only work in books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope that people understand that in order for characters to grow, they need to be flawed in the beginning. So we very much intentionally created two characters that had been bred to hate each other,\u201d director Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/news\/purple-hearts-backlash-sofia-carson-elizabeth-allen-rosenbaum-1235339619\/\">Variety<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>She explained how the characters being \u201cflawed\u201d was an intentional decision. \u201cIn order for the red heart and the blue heart to kind of turn purple, you have to have them be kind of extreme. Some of the people that they\u2019re surrounded with are even more flawed than they are,\u201d she continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026They learn to become more moderate and to listen to each other and to love,\u201d Rosenbaum said. \u201cThat was the biggest, most important part of the theme. I do hope that anyone who\u2019s in any way insulted by it understands that our intentions are very pure, and it\u2019s because we feel like people need to grow and need to start to become more moderate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carson agreed, saying the negative perception by fans is missing the point.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy I fell in love with the movie is that it\u2019s a love story but it\u2019s so much more than that,\u201d Carson agreed. \u201cIt\u2019s two hearts, one red, one blue, two worlds apart, who are really raised to hate each other. Through the power of love, they learn to lead with empathy and compassion and love each other and turn into this beautiful shade of purple. We wanted to represent both sides as accurately as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Netflix movie \u201cPurple Hearts\u201d is receiving backlash despite being one of the platform\u2019s \u201cmost-watched\u201d offerings right now, with more than 100 million streaming hours, per Buzzfeed. Critics call it \u201canti-Arab\u201d and \u201cpro-military propaganda,\u201d but the film\u2019s director has a different take. On the Netflix page, the romantic comedy is described as being about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1607039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606911","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\/1606911","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}