{"id":661949,"date":"2021-08-19T12:36:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=661949"},"modified":"2021-08-19T12:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T16:37:02","slug":"8-woke-movie-cliches-hollywood-loves-using-in-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/8-woke-movie-cliches-hollywood-loves-using-in-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Woke Movie Cliches Hollywood Loves Using In Movies"},"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\">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%2F8-woke-movie-cliches-hollywood-loves-using-in-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=661949&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><span>It takes years, sometimes decades, for a movie trope to get planted in Hollywood\u2019s head.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We didn\u2019t call Jamie Lee Curtis a \u201cfinal girl\u201d while watching 1979\u2019s \u201cHalloween\u201d for the first time. It took dozens of subsequent horror films featuring lone heroines to make the trope stick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s a minor miracle, then, that we\u2019re watching new movie tropes appear almost overnight\u2026 thanks to Hollywood\u2019s woke makeover. And yes, they\u2019ve already worn out their welcome.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The following predictable tropes blossomed in recent years, and they typically make their stories worse, not better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Unstoppable Female Heroes<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s one thing for Captain Marvel or Black Widow to take down the bad guys, no matter their size or strength. They\u2019re superheroes, not to mention Avengers. It comes with the territory. Plus, these are comic book stories at their core.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But it\u2019s exhausting to see petite actresses take down hulking men on screen without breaking so much as a sweat. It happens time and again, and no matter how skilled stars like Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron may be, it beggars belief to see their superpower-free forms take down thugs twice their weight, with ease.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_278942\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278942\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-278942 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-2182508-755x576.jpg\" alt=\"HOLLYWOOD - JULY 21:  Actress Angelina Jolie attends the world premiere of the film &quot;Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life&quot; at Grauman&#039;s Chinese Theatre July 21, 2003 in Hollywood, California.  The film releases nationwide July 25, 2003.  (Photo by Kevin Winter\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1108\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-2182508-755x576.jpg 755w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-2182508-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-2182508-768x586.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-2182508-1536x1172.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-2182508-2048x1563.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1108px) 100vw, 1108px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-278942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Winter\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Show-Stopping Lectures<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Woke TV shows are notorious for embracing this soul-crushing trope. One minute you\u2019re watching a police procedural on broadcast TV, the next you\u2019re hearing a lecture about Black Lives Matter, immigration or another hot-button issue from a progressive point of view.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The \u201880s-set comedy \u201cThe Exchange\u201d offers a perfect example. The story follows a French exchange student from Paris who happens to be of Arab descent. Not only does the screenplay hyper-focus on the white locals\u2019 reaction to his ethnicity, but several characters give speeches about how wrong it is to treat the teen in a bigoted fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On The CW\u2019s\u2019 \u201cBatwoman\u201d series, co-star <\/span><span>Luke Fox (Camrus Johnson) spits out this monologue which sounds suspiciously like \u2026 a lecture \u2026 after surviving a shooting. Only he didn\u2019t want to wake up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen I was under, I saw my dad, and, I mean, he was right there.&nbsp;Why the hell would I want to live in a world where we get shot for no reason, where the gunmen get out of jail free so it\u2019s not a matter of if there\u2019s another bullet coming, it\u2019s when?&nbsp;Why would I go through it when I can be with my dad again?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Heroic Chinese Characters<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>This trend exists for pragmatic, not progressive reasons. Hollywood covets Chinese theatrical cash, so screenwriters now insert Chinese characters into their films to make them more appealing to that nation\u2019s movie goers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Said characters can\u2019t be villains, though, nor display any tendencies that would make audiences question a Chinese person\u2019s values. Thus, they\u2019re dull and one-dimensional, all the better not to rub Chinese censors the wrong way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So why include this trope here?&nbsp; These characters, and the absence of plots critical of China, remind us that the woke mob lacks a true moral backbone. If it did, it would spend endless energy savaging China\u2019s authoritarian tactics and its Uyghur Muslim concentration camps.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instead, said mob cares more about using the very best pronouns and making Mary Sue characters lead the charge than tackle China\u2019s human rights crises head on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>White Racists at Work<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Disney+\u2019s \u201cThe Falcon and the Winter Soldier\u201d features a clunky sequence where a banker is praising the black Avenger right to his face. I\u2019m a huge fan! The next moment? The banker is denying him a loan on grounds that feel a tad racist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s a small scene in the show\u2019s first episode, but it\u2019s emblematic of moments attempting to show black Americans face that kind of racism all the time. True? False? What\u2019s clear is how clunky, and inorganic, these moments are in the scheme of the stories in play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A similar incident happens during \u201cIn the Heights.\u201d A Latina character recalls being accused of theft at her college, presumably because she\u2019s a person of color. The memory adds little to the story, and it should be the kind of moment a smart, and driven woman can bully past, not allow to crush her scholastic dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Racism exists, but when it\u2019s depicted in ways tied to a larger, woke narrative the story suffers as a result.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_278943\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278943\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-278943 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1169850732.jpg\" alt=\"ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 23: (L-R) President of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Emily VanCamp, and Wyatt Russell of &#039;The Falcon and The Winter Soldier&#039; took part today in the Disney+ Showcase at Disney\u2019s D23 EXPO 2019 in Anaheim, Calif.  &#039;The Falcon and The Winter Soldier&#039; will stream exclusively on Disney+, which launches November 12. (Photo by Jesse Grant\/Getty Images for Disney)\" width=\"1150\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1169850732.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1169850732-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1169850732-864x576.jpg 864w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1169850732-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1150px) 100vw, 1150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-278943\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesse Grant\/Getty Images for Disney<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Red State Sucker Punches<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The indie thriller \u201cThe Boy Behind the Door\u201d delivers more chills than many modern shockers. The story follows two pre-teens trying to escape from a kidnapper\u2019s home. A quick sequence following one of the movie\u2019s villains, though, takes pains to show the bumper sticker on his car. It has a \u201cMAGA\u201d slogan on it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These out of the blue sucker punches are increasingly common. It\u2019s the filmmaker\u2019s way of sharing what side he or she is on, but they really only serve to take us out of the experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Take the lifeless comedy \u201cThe Dead Don\u2019t Die,\u201d which featured a local yokel wearing a Trump-style hat to let you know he\u2019s one of the bad guys.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Oscar-winning \u201cBlacKkKlansman\u201d ended with an out of context clip of President Donald Trump <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2019\/03\/21\/trump_didnt_call_neo-nazis_fine_people_heres_proof_139815.html\"><span>allegedly praising neo Nazis in Charlottesville<\/span><\/a><span> following the 2017 melee which left a woman dead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe Crown\u201d decided to weaponize its fourth season against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, jabs that likely had little purpose beyond pure ideology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Meet Mary Sue<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The term refers to female characters who are so flawless they leave little room for audiences to connect with them. Emily Blunt\u2019s character in \u201cJungle Cruise\u201d qualifies. Her only flaw? She can\u2019t swim, a problem fixed through narrative necessity later in the film. Katniss Everdeen could easily fall into this category, proving heroic beyond all measure in the \u201cHunger Games\u201d franchise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The biggest recent Mary Sue remains Rey, Daisy Ridley\u2019s character in the latest \u201cStar Wars\u201d trilogy. She\u2019s darn near perfect, with powers that rise up whenever necessary. What a bore.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_278944\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278944\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-278944 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-891638894-945x576.jpg\" alt=\"LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 13:  Daisy Ridley during the &#039;Star Wars: The Last Jedi&#039; photocall at Corinthia Hotel London on December 13, 2017 in London, England.  (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1144\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-891638894-945x576.jpg 945w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-891638894-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-891638894-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-891638894.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1144px) 100vw, 1144px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-278944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stuart C. Wilson\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Old Properties, New Faces<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s one thing to reboot or reimagine an older story with fresh themes. The \u201cBates Motel\u201d TV series did that to critical acclaim, as did NBC\u2019s \u201cHannibal.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Too often an existing property is reborn, but with a gender or ethnic switch. So \u201cOverboard\u201d 2.0 swaps the genders in the main story, while, the upcoming \u201cSaint\u201d reboot casts a black performer, Rege-Jean Page of \u201cBridgerton\u201d fame, to play the previously white hero.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The most infamous example? The 2016 \u201cGhostbusters\u201d debacle which cast four actresses in a franchise known for male ghost busters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These decisions could have creatively smart consequences, opening up fresh story angles to invigorate the properties. More often than not, they\u2019re duds-in-the-making, witness uninspiring flicks like \u201cThe Hustle,\u201d \u201cWhat Men Want\u201d and \u201cLife of the Party.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Anachronistic characters<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s hard not to cringe as Dwayne Johnson utters the hokey phrase, \u201cwait for it \u2026\u201d during \u201cJungle Cruise,\u201d a story set in 1916. That\u2019s a minor blip compared to other characters in the film behaving as if they just stepped out of Doc Brown\u2019s time machine from 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Minor Spoiler:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Johnson\u2019s character, a crusty skipper, proves very accepting when a key character in the film reveals himself as gay. The real Johnson would likely act the same, which is great. Would a 1916-era bloke offer a similarly open reaction?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Showtime\u2019s \u201cBlack Monday\u201d series, set in the 1980s, recently had two white characters <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/culture\/elise-ehrhard\/2021\/06\/13\/blm-inserted-80s-showtime-comedy-insane-how-many-cops-are\">spouting off<\/a> as if they time traveled to 2020 America at the height of the Black Lives Matter protests:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>Tiffany (Casey Wilson):<span> They want you to give the eulogy?&nbsp;I mean, that is even more insane&nbsp;than how many cops are white supremacists.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Republican Congressman Blair Pfaff (Andrew Rannells)<span>: Not really, when you consider the American policing system was initially designed to protect white property owners.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>It\u2019s one thing to reimagine the past in ways to increase diversity, as Lin Manuel-Miranda brilliantly did with Broadway\u2019s \u201cHamilton.\u201d The same can be said of Netflix\u2019s wildly popular \u201cBridgerton\u201d series. It\u2019s entirely different to create period stories but populate them with characters, and attitudes, ripped from the 21<\/span><span>st<\/span><span> century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><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<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes years, sometimes decades, for a movie trope to get planted in Hollywood\u2019s head.\u00a0We didn\u2019t call Jamie Lee Curtis a \u201cfinal girl\u201d while watching 1979\u2019s \u201cHalloween\u201d for the first &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661949","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\/661949","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=661949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661949\/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=661949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}