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It's already destroyed. Movies are terrible. We are all finding new hobbies
Anime and MAnga FTW 🎉🎉
Watching old movies
they have heart!they usually had a good writer condensing amazing books/novels down to fewer characters while having a good start, middle and end!@@seanbs
No need to stop watching movies. Thousands of movies were made before this disease. There are Asian movies where they still value story telling above mentally ill agendas.
Localizers @@Cool2023FtwNoice
The Union talked about inclusivity yet its members are afraid to speak out. Well done, WGA.
It's [Maoist] communism in action. Say something the people in power doesn't like and you are GONE.
That's what happens when you include sociopaths and thugs. It was inevitable.
WGA? You mean the 'Film Actor's Guild'
Must be another guided by Stonewall...
@@zerocool5395 MATT DAMON!!!
Guys, do you know why people are contacting you with their stories and whistleblowing? It's because you're seen as a voice for those who can't speak out. You're trusted, you have integrity, and you are real. You're a life preserver in a sea of corruption. As an outsider, I applaud your courage for giving these folks a platform to air these egregious injustices and expose more wholesale Hollywood rot.
They're true to their Film Threat moniker, at least to the flabby establishment.
How long before we a situation where it is revolt or the industry dies I wonder
Exactly this
It's too late to save it though, the damage is done
"A life preserver in a sea of corruption." An incredible line and so true 👏🏾
All the writing industries have already been destroyed by DEI. Newspapers? Magazines? Books? Films? Not ONE industry can publish anything without DEI approved writers, content, and editing. They have destroyed their quality over absurd demands and consequently are losing money. It's done. This is NOT in question, the question is what can be done about it?
Guess which group has members on the boards of all those industry's. Oy vey.
Dump the DEI obsession, keep the drive for developing diversity ACROSS THE BOARD (including for white people, because the ACTUAL description INCLUDES them as well). That way, you get QUALITY AND INCLUSION, it's not forced, it's earned because of the stairway (and time/effort and projects everyone has to be involved in to develop their craft) everyone has to climb to success and you keep the lot out that don't contribute anything (and do nothing but clog up the system with zero/low-energy efforts). THAT is how you do DIVERSITY right, and benefit from the process as well.
Or... can anything be done about it?
I wrote and self-published a book. We have to start somewhere.
100% correct: all systems are infiltrated with this insane ideology and all are dying. We retaliate by refusing to buy any of these junk things. They are all going bankrupt, one after another.
It’s a full-blown actual cult.
They created this monster. Now they can't control it.
Exactly. They created it and used the power of money, indoctrinating the young, media and government to spread and threaten. Then oct 7th happened.
I know an actor that’s worked at Disney who said that everything I’ve said online about SJW’s and the film industry is true? But they can’t speak out for fear of losing their job.
Does your friend not have any skills to get them out of a horrible position.
@@lordhelwintr283 The better question: why is that friend working in an industry that prides itself on "giving the voiceless a voice", when it's actively shutting people up or making them fear of voicing any concerns they might have about how the DEI process has been totally hijacked by people who are GENUINELY destroying the outcome it claimed it was created to reach?
Also, remember when actors and actresses used to LOVE their job and used to prank each other endlessly on set, or did legendary crazy stuff on and off set as a way of bonding with their colleagues to make the job easier to do? The joy of acting seems to have been sucked right out of the industry, and the audience can feel that in the performances of many mainstream productions.
@@sigmacademy its in every industry and corporation and government in the usa and Canada.
If you don’t speak out now, your kids won’t it be able to work. If you speak out now you will lose work. But if people speak out, the tides will turn.
We're in the rise of independent content, let's go support them!
Agreed. I am looking forward to the next Pixar or Aardman or Lucasfilms or even Disney. Talent that is not appreciated by the mainstream finds a way.
@@OvalRock The problem is that if they become popular, they will be offered a lot of money to bend the knee, or will sell out and get gobbled up by a big corp, or they will be infiltrated by trojan activists.
I can't wait, we are in the gold rush stage of independent businesses. So tired of Hollywood.
Exactly
This Dei stuff is the death knell of creativity.
DEI and ESG.
The West is a death cult. 💀
That's the point of it.
The scariest thing about all this is that the same thing is happening in airlines now.
Yea, exactly..and planes are crashing..
And tech
And education. Soon a college degree will be actually worthless
Coming soon to an emergency room near you!
Pilots, air traff8c controllers, surgical spaces and construction. Good luck usa!!!
We have been in a cultural dark age for about 20 years. This is just the latest stage of it. The whole thing has been fascinating to watch. I didn't say it was good, one has to wonder where all the adults went.
These writers should just go public. If they don’t their industry will be destroyed. They have nothing to lose.
They have everything to lose. They would be blacklisted.
That would be career suicide
@@Criner05 I get the sentiment, but they will be blacklisted eventually in ANY case.
I find it intriguing that we never heard about Disney pursuing NDA violations against the women who posted articles declaring Pixar a toxic workplace. FOR SOME REASON rules apparently don’t apply to them.
@@moresnacksplease526 That seems to be because the studio is far more afraid of bad PR from such communities than they are in having a functional studio making profitable products (and the livelihoods that those jobs guarantee).
“Male and Pale is Stale”
“Black is Wack”
“Latino? For me, no”
“Got slants? Not a chance!”
Sorry if I left anyone out.
Not diverse enough. Lol miss quite a few.
"got slants, not a chance" lol
Lol well said, but that's racist because you aren't talking bad about white men...
I appreciate the creativity you put into those. 😂
@@tkxbetrayer2405 Whites were first on the list. So it’s still racist because they didn’t give up 1st position to a persecuted minority.
Can’t spell DEI without DIE. Lol
So only a murderer can write a murderer in a show with their logic?
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Yep. Also, only a murderer can play a murderer.
"Silence of the Lambs" discriminated against cannibalistic serial killers by hiring an actor who wasn't one.
Bill Burr basically made that same joke
@@zxyatiywariii8For shame!
You guys at Film Threat are doing an extremely valuable service with your reporting. Keep it up.
As an Asian American comic book fan , I wish Marvel would stop hiring bad Asian writers for the Shang-Chi comic book. They are terrible and Shang-Chi is not the badass he was in the 70's and 80's. Non Asian writers like Steve Eaglehart and Doug Moench did a better job creating a strong Asian character...
Shang Chi movie was really crap.
@@hungchoonghow5857 Regardless of its status as the "first Asian led superhero MCU movie", I've also said that there were BETTER Asian-led martial arts movies out there against which that movie pales, both in China AND old-school martial arts movies, looking at Don "The Dragon" Wilson/Jackie Chan/Jet Li/etc. movies as my baseline. I also say that as someone who LOVES mythology, and who should have been DEEPLY impressed by a movie like that.
@madbug1965 Good point and I'm sure we could find many more examples.
I watched The Beekeeper last night and noticed other than Jason Stratham all of the named white characters were bad guys and all of the named ethnically diverse characters were good guys. I'm so tired of this shit.
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potus isnt actually a bad guy, not a main character but not a villain. when she learned the truth she was willing to do the right thing and tell the truth knowing what it would cost her. this was actually a nice little twist i didnt see coming.
i also dont take this movie as woke in that way. sure the ratio of white to non-white was out of balance, but most of the diverse characters were side characters. the mom was a plot point to set the story in motion, the daughter was the only diverse main character. the fbi partner dude was... there.
and this was a movie they could put in more diverse actors without ruining it, i dont think this was an adaptation that was ruined by replacing white with non-white characters.
and yes, jeremy irons is white and on the bad side, but come on, would you replace him with a non-white actor for this role? cause i wouldnt, he was great as always.
and would you count the beekeeper chick as a bad guy? cause i think she was asian wasnt she? im not sure if she was asian or not.
I watched it...because Jason was represented.
But ya...the writing was COMPLETE trash. All writing is nowadays.
Except for the comments section. 🔥
His character felt like an autistic freak, at least. I appreciated that, as an autistic freak.
If an 18 year old white heterosexual male from the midwest with no connections to anyone in the entertainment industry whatsoever decided that he wanted to pursue a career as filmmaker, I would advise him against it. Not because of lack of effort, talent or persistence, but because he would be denied any chance at making a career for himself in this new age of Hollywood. His work would go unread, un-watched and rejected before it would ever be judged on the merits or quality of the work itself. This also applies to the independent film world just as much, as financiers and distributors have also become just as guilty in participating with DEI.
They can STILL make movies, they will just have to find different ways of marketing and distributing said films, because mainstream will NOT help them... and that might actually be better for them - they are not beholden to the studio system like studio filmmakers or industry trades are. They are free to tell a story in EXACTLY the way they want to, they are FAR closer to the community they make stuff for (no research companies necessary), they can make movies that include subject matter that the audience are actually familiar with/or can learn to appreciate and they can build a direct relationship with their customers. Some TH-camr film channels have made concepts, trailers and short films with MILLIONS of views and many positive reviews, something not even the STUDIOS can match them in.
Fiction writers, too. Men may have to begin to use pseudonyms like some women did in times of old. I want to be called Loretta. I have a boys adventure story with monsters in it, maybe as Loretta I can get publisher to look at it 😂
If no one is going to finance your movie, then you will have to do it yourself. Sadly no one is coming to the midwest to pick you up, you need to MAKE them notice you with your volume of work. Then maybe you'll get a little lucky and move to LA for more opportunities.
@@LycanVisuals the good God mammon is worshipped everywhere. Get foreign funding - japan, dubai, india etc. As soon as the greedy hwood goblins see that they'll come rushing to grab the pot.
@LycanVisuals why? These DEI problems will still apply in LA
Guys bring in an attorney to talk about this. The WGA is violating settled law. Time to decertify it.
Dear Hollywood, we have recently found our entertainment elsewhere, and your services are now surplus to requirements, don't call us, we'll call you.
JOKE: "Also, leave your VIP parking disc at the receptionist on your way out." Foreshadowing, perhaps? :P
I re-watched how to marry a millionaire 2 days ago. It wipes the floor with the majority of recent movie releases. I miss these types of stories.
My biggest complaint with comic book movies in the past 10 years has been the lack of respect to its source material...now I know based on your DEI investigation of writers not even having familiarity to the source material is championed as a plus. No wonder all we get is shite storytelling. They arent celebrating the source material it is just a celebration of a narrative...damn the story. When will this end?
The only wish to destroy everything white men love, every character they can get there grubby hands on.. so pety
Anything which claims to be "inclusive" which also casts a pall of fear over an industry is NOT inclusive at all. By "inclusive" they mean "conform to our revisionist standards, no matter how illogical they are or we'll call you bad names and try to get you fired and blacklisted!"
If only a gay person is qualified to talk about gay issues, then that is all they are qualified to talk about; if only a Asian person is allowed to talk about Asian issues, then that is all they are allowed to talk about. It would be inappropriate for a Black woman to discuss the life of a White man. Our common humanity is irrelevant, it contributes nothing to our understanding of people outside our group, or so we must believe. How many artists are happy to be constrained this way? DEI frustrates free expression but, like life, art will find a way, perhaps in the form of a new union or production company. Exciting times.
Ironically, DEI also eliminates another avenue for storytellers to tell stories - by them being able to write stories about groups they are not part of, they lose the ability to see or experience the world as anything but themselves, which further stunts their growth as storytellers.
Who gets to talk about Jesus with that logic?
@@JeffCaplan313 they dont WANT you talking about Him in the first place
"Male and Pale is Stale".... wow, that fails the swap test with flying colors! That is INSANELY RACIST
And meanwhile, the most popular show on television is Yellowstone. Props to Taylor Sheridan.
That's the end of western entertainment 😢
Godzilla Minus One should’ve gotten more than one nomination. Best actor, supporting actress, Best Picture, director and editor. IMO.
When you guys were picking apart the editing of the article you wrote, it's 100% more relatable than the Mary Sue's being written because of the influence of DEI. We all had our human qualities, that includes the moments looking back and seeing the flaws in ourselves and wanting to improve, people are dying for those kind of characters. The industry focuses too much about the stereotype of struggles people of different categories go through, and there is a lack encouraging to overcome those struggles but to reinforce just how unfair the world is. DEI seems to celebrate dividing us into the boxes they say we don't have to stay in, resulting in characters that act more like a robot that is supposed to be a pat on the back of representation.
The irony is that it shows how disconnect DEI about being a person, and that's why more and more people have stopped caring about the Hollywood industry.
Thank God for older movies/shows. (There are so many classics I've never seen.) All this creepy, "behind the scenes" cult sh*t makes me wanna stay away from anything made after 2016 or so, just on principle. (At least anything American.)
better keep those old movies and shows on physical media with the way streaming services have started censoring them for 'modern audiences'
@@counthazard Great point! The censorship (and the endless "Warnings" before older movies that warns snowflakes that their feelings might get hurt) makes my blood boil. I'd love to see a "Warning" on older films that states "This film was made in a time when the melting pot existed in America and yes, it wasn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than what got today and if you don't like it "F" you."
Inclusivity means your gender, race/ethnicity, disability, political views and sexual orientation don't matter. In other words, no employer, guild or union should even ask for this kind of information. It needs to be settled by lawsuits. I guarantee all these invasive questionaires are discriminatory civil rights violations. People have been complaining about this stuff for a long time, it's time for class action lawsuits to finally bring an end to this DEI nonsense.
"Comic books is gone." It was at one time so hard to get into comic books. I SO wanted to be a writer for DC comics at one time, but it was clear you really had to work your way up and earn that spot. And now they just give work to anyone who's a minority and has written anything (not even comics) and they produce talky books lacking structure. They don't know the art of guiding the reader across and down the page. All that expertise came from experience and from editors who worked their way up to that, and now editors are people who would prefer to be working in other media. There's still good in places, don't get me wrong, but there's a reason this industry has been dying for a while.
I have seen some of the comics today and they are horrible in every way. bad art, horrible writing, story filled with self inserts and tumblr fanfics. At this point I just want all entertainment to shut down than continue with this DEI/ESG nightmare.
My local public library seems to be purchasing books mostly written by women. Since Covid, a lot of the new books are about gays or lesbians.
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As a regular library user, I've noticed the same thing (with an ever increasing number of more political titles added in there as well). Which is bizarre, since some of their biggest number of disposed titles are political and "social movement" based titles - so they buy stuff knowing they will simply throw them out later.
Also, they got rid of most of the old female written fantasy and sci-fi titles at my library YEARS ago (which are some of the best fantasy and sci-fi content they ever had) - been trying to scoop up such titles whenever the library sold them off.
RIP 🪦
I cannot express how deeply sickening it is to me that they've now tried to steal the term 'Jedi' for their own twisted purposes.
People have mistaken idebtity for INSIGHT. Not everyone of a certain identity has insight into their experiences or even a broad knowledge of their own history.
Keep putting this information out there. Maybe some of the suits will realize audiences won’t pay to see the garbage DEI has created
People don’t believe that things like this will eventually come for them.
I left Hollywood almost fifteen years ago and didn't want anything to do with the guilds because of this stuff. I can claim latino heritage to get in the door but I look white and that's enough to get the looks that tell me they're not interested. It's frustrating because I have literal piles of scripts that I can't get read because I'm not a WGA member and I'm not a WGA member because I know they'll never let me past where I already am, so why legitimize their policies by trying to join up? I'll produce some of my work on my own but have no idea how to break out in an industry that's actively trying to stop me. I'm proud of my heritage on both sides of my family but hate the racism and misandry that will make the goals of a lot of talented and hard working people more challenging than it needs to be.
They lack kindness that is similar what happend in Germany before WW2. The Nazis also thought if a race is overrepresented they are evil and have to be removed and if the own race is overrepresented it is done through merit. Otherwise you have to assume that you are less qualified on average as a race. And the Nazis did not want to think they are less qualified, that is why they assumed negative characteristics in Jews. This kind of thinking always existed. That it is not a surprise to me that it happend to you and your country.
@dailywire
@@teestadasgupta610 I appreciate what they're doing but I don't think they're my brand, either.
It's interesting that your story shows that all of this woke stuff is racist. Racism is simply choosing people based on race. How can this be disputed? The grifters are given power by literal dunces. It's a shame that normal and rational people like yourself suffer for it.
I know the pain. I'm female and half Japanese (born there) but also half Irish and I have blonde hair and am 5'10 and look more Irish, for some reason it disqualified me despite having great credentials for the industry I was involved with. I was fine on paper to them, then in person indirectly called a liar about my heritage and had to basically prove it. It felt inappropriate and strange since I thought my work was what should have taken priority. In the end they hired someone who was 3 things I'm not (you can guess), had no experience (I have 13 years) and was in their last year of getting a degree.
I am a JEDI, as was my father & mother before me.
I strongly object to the cultural and religious appropriating 😮
"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.”
Oh boy, them grabbing your faith as a rename (Justice Equity Diversity Inclusion) must really anger you. I know it makes me disgusted.
Personally, I feel the Borg greeting is more appropriate here. :P
You guys should take these letters and info and publish a book covering the DEI situation in entertainment. Embrace your new role and expand the coverage.
In movies, this would be the Call to Adventure moment for a humble hero.
Keep up the great work guys. So good to see honest journalism rather than propaganda and stenography posing as journalism.
Gosh man I really hope Elon musk and Nelson peltz see this. I’m black and I’m so upset about this dei crap destroying all my child hood memories and franchises I love. It’s really upsetting😢
The more I see and hear, the more I feel there is a deliberate nature to what has happened to all our cultural art forms. I was involved in activism politics in the mid 2010s and I was taught these Woke principles the WGA are adopting. They originated out of an ideology of cultural Marxism/neo-Marxism. I can't help but think there is something more pervasive at work under this, but the arts and pop culture were the first to fall to it. I left the activist groups because of this years ago.
There was an unspoken agenda baked into the ideology that was meant to creep into and dismantle the pillars of "Anglo/Western" culture.
As a lover of film and the arts, thank you thank you thank you for exposing this when others could not. This gives me hope the entire rot of the ideology will finally be exposed before it is too late.
The thing with ACTUAL activism, though, is that it DOESN'T NEED to rely on lies or manipulation. The activist who has TRUTH on his or her side, will be proven correct in the end, regardless of whether people agree with him or her, or not. That is why we call people who rely on pure fabrications "activists", because they play pretend they are activists when they are not.
The agenda you are talking about, also has this critical blind spot in that it refuses to acknowledge its own ideological flaws or mistakes, which is why it will continue to fail regardless of WHICH century it is pushed or adopted. They can't fix a leaking ship when they refuse to acknowledge there are cracks in the hull and water is flowing in.
@@sigmacademy Absolutely. I was doing disability rights works involving healthcare access and this ideology began to infiltrate. I wanted to focus on EMPIRICAL MEDICAL DATA and actual disease treatments, and people started making it about identity politics. I went as an advisor for "equity" on a local hospital panel and the first two meetings were about the history of slavery in America. I'm not kidding.
It made no sense, and I can tell you that nobody was "solution-oriented" in those spaces. It was "revolution" (but a fantasy idea of it) oriented. I was too pale and stale to be taken seriously even though I checked enough boxes on that WGA form to win an Oscar for existing. lol
The "activists" have ruined real activism now. After the pandemic surged, so many disabled people got screwed over medically and financially, but if anyone tries to advocate for their rights people think there is Woke fuel behind it. The Woke are showing their hand in Hollywood right now w the anti-Semitism after Oct. 7. It will continue to reveal itself.
Reading these emails in the article reminds me of The Death of Stalin, or even The Lives of Others. I never could wrap my head around how this could happen. But I will help spread the word and support Film Threat in any way I can.
Its being pushed by the ultra rich and corporations, like blackrock, vangaurd, WEF, etc. Its to cause constant division so we do not pay attention to them monopolizing everything for themselves.
Yes, that is a core precept in Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals". It's part of the demoralization process to take over all aspects of culture and humiliate those participating in those cultures. It has never been about success or money, it is about destroying western civilization, from film, to books, from art to atomization.
"female, gay, and brown brings sales down." I Really hate to agree with you. The lowering of standards is so odd. It reminds me of changing a tire and thinking, "this will do".
I'm just going to identify as a Trans woman who identifies as a biological straight white male. Problem solved.
hehehe, modern problems require modern solutions.
Black History Month begins...
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today."
"I have a dream that Aunt Jemima will be taken off pancake syrup bottles"... oh wait...
well that dream died, MLK, and it was killed by those who profess to idolize you
Lip service. Critical race theory rejects color blindness as racist.
Isn't it expressly ILLEGAL to hire based on race? Isn't that a LAW?
Laws don't seem to matter much. Biden just changes or ignores laws that don't fit the narrative. We're in the middle of a culture war. Globalists control the government and the media.
Next step is crash the economy, with major corporations like Disney going under. Massive layoffs happened in January. It's serious.
They probably snuck some type of "amendment" in to bypass that problem.
Isnt it illegal to murder civilians in Gaza?
Isnt it illegal to leave US border open?
You arent in Kansas anymore...
Never thought that conservative media would be a better alternative. Who would have thought?
I wish more content creators were talking about this. When the strike was happening, you had even TikTokers talking about it, but when actual bigotry is happening, _silence._
I guess they only cared when they thought it would help them get into the industry cool kids club. I hope the whistle-blower will be okay. They're in a snake pit right now, and I bet there are attempts being made by the WGA to figure out their identity.
That's because talking about it when it matters require sacrifice (usually of income and opportunity), which is why relatively few channels actually point it out when it happens.
Their bigotry is socially acceptable. But there was a time when bigotry against minorities was socially acceptable. History will judge the current-day bigots similarly.
They were alright with DEI until it affected them.
I would wager nearly all of these people writing in to FT supported DEI up until the moment it cost them their jobs. On paper it sounds great, but it ends with codified racism/sexism.
First they came for the comic writes and I did not speak out because I was not a comic writer, then they came for....
How dare they use Jedi for such a stupid thing? This is revolting!
Chris and Alan may not have wanted ti ve the ones to reveal these info, but its a great thing that they did. Really living up to the "Flim Threat" name.
New hobbies (watching drawing videos on YT) , watch old movies, be careful what you buy so you don't fill your mind with DEI garbage/ same with theaters/ foreign movies/ reading/study subjects of interest ((Always wanted to learn Italian and Latin) /
It sounds like we are going into an entertainment drought. Prepare.
Time to return to the real world... 😢
Great work boys!!!
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
My thoughts exactly!
Indie film studios could break thru soon. Sound of Freedom proved that "the little movies that could" have potential. Godzilla Minus One proved you don't need astronomical budgets to make a big, exciting movie. We could see growth in new and small studios rise to bring in massive profits if they deliver what audiences want to see, and not care if they're Oscar eligible, etc.
I ended up clicking "other" on these surveys and just write-in: "Race: Vulcan", "Gender: Jedi". I'm still waiting for anyone to lecture me on what I can self-identify as.
For me, the key element here is fear. If DEI is so good at addressing imbalance in the industry & making sure the playing field is open to everyone, and effecting positive change across the board so that everybody wins, why does implementation of DEI require the use of intimidation & punishment?
Too little too late. Harrison Ford wasn't happy with the way his Indy and Han were dismissed, but he went along with it. When they make a third Blade Runner, his character will be weak, broken, incapable of tying his own shoes. If he doesn't stand up and say 'What the hell is this crap?" how is some 25 year old writer.
He doesn't care about Han Solo. The only reason he agreed to be in The Force Awakens was because they guaranteed that they'd kill him off.
Oh geez, I guess that's better. 😢 @@ChaoticYak1
@@emerson_weston the other hand, he loves Indie
How about I identify as a wheelchair bound queer Afro/LatinX? They can't question it, or else.
You risk being cast as the next Doctor Who.
@@TheresaMayPM Doubtful. Wouldn't "look" the part, regardless of how much emphasis they place on "self-identification".
I’ve said this on another channel, but I’ll say it again here, but it’s great you are teaming with other TH-cam channels, as you are standing up as a united front in exposing this.
Oh how I miss writers and directors of old....what has cinema come to? We therefore commit this body (Hollywood) to the ground, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust....
Animation is not done. It can be revived. Bottom line is studios can't keep losing like this.
17:51 _"Comic books..."_
Another aspect of this that you may not be aware of: veteran comics writer Christopher Priest (who is black) has talked about "typecasting" writers, where minority writers are only hired to write characters that look like them, meaning they get denied opportunities to write white characters etc. It's ironically racist. A good writer should be allowed to write about any character.
A truly double-edged sword.
Is he the sams Christopher Priest who wrote the novel The Prestige?
@@markpostgate2551 No, two different people.
I would be interested in them having a legal review of this. Hiring practices in the U.S. are standardized at the federal level and to some extent at the state level. If this was a company, just these documents would get them in trouble, now, forcing DEI training could lead to problems, especially if this training was reviewed by outside legal counsel. However, since this is a guild, the rules may be different, but they are part of the hiring process, so should have some oversight. I think a complaint can be filed with Better Business Bureau, along with other federal institutions, people are protected against discrimination on bases of race, religion, sex, etc. I would expect they will be sued eventually, possibly even a class action lawsuit, should be interesting.
Unions and guilds are still held to equal hiring laws by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They could be investigated if enough attention is brought to them.
@@hope-cat4894 Those enforcement mechanisms are captured by the same people pushing this regime. You'll get token relief at best, and then comes the retaliation.
@@hope-cat4894 As someone who is living in a foreign country, I can guarantee you that just HAVING a biased commission means absolutely nothing, especially when they choose to arbitrarily apply their concerns or direct their attention to benefit only people they like.
The WGA should be sued again and again till they can't discriminate. This is illegal.
Is a real meritocracy too much to ask nowadays? Why do people always have to go from one extreme to another?
Is this the demise of the US?
My entire life, and my parents and my grandparents our entire entertainment was from the US. Over the last few years I have started not taking the US entertainment industry seriously. More and more of the content I am consuming is coming from an Asian country.
Yes Chinese content does promote the CCP and portrays the US in a bad light, but at least their stories are reasonably tight and they dont try to shoehorn in characters just because they are a transgender gemini who enjoys long walks on the beach. What has that got to do with the story?
If I think the entertainment is 'forgettable' is the rest of the country the same?
If you don't like the anti-US sentiment in modern Chinese movies, I can highly recommend their "costumed drama" movies, or even their romance movies. They tend to leave ANY kind of foreign politics out of such movies, and rather focus on things that only matter to the story.
People need to set up a new/alternative writers guild and or union.
Been saying that for some time now. There needs to be something that formalizes decent training and work/creative opportunities for the non-professional level of creatives (like fan creators) as well - something that will raise the quality of their offerings, business savvy and legal protections as well.
@@sigmacademy There writers also need to take SAG to court.
@@MartyMcK For forcing them to take trainings that are 100% discriminatory? Absolutely. The question will just be IF anyone ever does.
@@sigmacademy And making them fill in the form that profiles them by race, gender, ethnicity etc.
Independent media is in a golden age right now. We have youtube. We have a library of timeless old movies and tv shows that will give anyone a lifetime of entertainment. We dont need Hollywood anymore. Let them make their circle jerk DEI movies. We'll watch stuff like Godzilla Minus One
Independent media is also WAY more "diverse" in their offerings - LITERALLY anyone who can pick up a video camera or mobile phone, get free training on screen writing, editing, marketing, etc. and put their stuff on TH-cam. Apart from the equipment requirement, there's ZERO barrier to entry on that front.
Also, LGBTQ independent media predated Hollywood by more than a decade, and it is STILL better than anything Hollywood tries to make in that sphere (not to mention, it was ALSO made by members from those communities, so the current lot has no excuse for having access to WAY more resources and failing to make use of it properly). So yet again, independent media proves that it still remains the home of better content.
WGA and the media industry at large souunds more of what they accuse the audience and fans are.
This is disgusting. Talent and merit and making good stories are what should be happening in the industry. There should be discrimination lawsuits of some sort.
For forcing them to take trainings that are 100% discriminatory? Absolutely. The question will just be IF anyone ever does.
It's also very obvious that they are keeping diverse talent who doesn't want to be political VERY sidelined, if marketing of such projects are anything to go by.
I don't get it: The WGA and their members did strike for these awful diversity quotas in the writers room. And now the writers are upset about the consequences of their own actions???
We ALL told them this would be the end result for YEARS - all they had to do was ORGANICALLY work on expanding the diversity of their talent on all fronts and it would have yielded EXCELLENT outcomes for everyone involved. All that this forced process did was open the door to MORE gatekeepers and making the barrier to entry even HARDER than it originally was.
It also pretty much locked ANY normal, non-political person out of Hollywood permanently. And some part of me doesn't consider that a loss, because it just means that better media will be found AWAY from an industry known for trying to control its creatives in ways that have hurt their end products for DECADES now. There's a reason why people have always found the non-studio made media appealing, and Hollywood has ALWAYS been trying to catch up with independent media, because independent media doesn't have to listen to studio notes, test screenings or be limited by studio mandates.
"Why are you the person to tell this story?" has been on query forms for literary agents for a few years. The dumbest question ever. Because I wrote it? Maybe?
Before this started, during the prelude to it, if you tried to write something you would be asked what your target demographic was, which may seem a little less dumb, but was still kind of annoying; I would think the answer should be "whomever likes it". The logic of grouping people according to certain characteristics and making generalisations about that group was already in place, in that case for marketing purposes. It seems to me these are two sides of the same mindset - that everyone can be categorised by identity markers and that is all that matters about them.
@@markpostgate2551 Right. Certain works definitely target specific audiences, but that doesn't mean artists who would be in those audiences can't write for a different one. There are books that are for black audiences, but that doesn't mean a black author shouldn't write whatever the hell they want.
DEI is the worst example of NON-creativity, that was literally broken down by SouthPark in the panderverse episode: Rewrite all previous wildly successful stories, but apply the equity % rules for representation… exemplified by Cartman as Kathleen Kennedy… “PUT A CHICK IN IT AND MAKE HER GAY, AND LAME!” Zero creativity at Disney since the pandemic.
It is extremely insightful to see the behind-the-scenes exposed like this. Very important to look at all of this.
This deserves more views. Make sure to share w/ friends, fam & industry folks.
I didn’t think it possible but this dei and crap writing is actually starting to go away. It will take couple of years to bring back quality but it is happening
The reason I recommended Dr. Catherine Liu to look up is because She was interviewed about something similar to this info by Jimmy Dore. (Whether you fully agree with him or not he’s HIGHLY critical of both parties) it could be informative.
Chris and Alan. We appreciate what you guys are doing. If not for you, Nerdrotic, Valiant Renegade, etc. we wouldn't know what is going on.Thank you for your Good work.
Jedi training? But I don’t feel the force 🤪😂
Well... but it does sound like quite a forced endeavour.
They want you to force The Message into everything.
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Sounds like that training is what the Mary Sues of Disney Star Wars did.
DEI = Death of Entertainment Industry
Spot on!😂
Thank you! This is so incredibly important, & must be exposed for all of us to hear & understand. These people deserved to be heard, & you are giving them a voice. Exposure is the only way change can occur.
I'm ok with this because the products will fail miserably. I'm very confident of that.
This is the richardation era of Hollywood
I miss the times when white men were allowed to be heads of the industry, got to tell the stories they wanted to tell, had as much white people as they wanted in their stories, and wrote any character they wanted. And if you’re honest- you do too. It was what we all grew up on. In 1960, this country was 90% white. There was a culture and respect for the past, just like many other countries around the world. The Hollywood industrial complex, along with the corporate sector now vilifies and reprimands masculinity and whiteness. I hope the power structure turns to dust as soon as possible. It needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.
Seems they had all the talent and passion..
The Dictatorship of minorities - this is an example of this topic studied 100 years ago by Freud and others.
No diversity of ideas, no inclusion of those ideas, and no equitable treatment of ideas
Obey and think the same things as the cultists. Or starve homelessly
Epic gains for Manga and Animé
Japan is taking ESG money now. Japanese culture is over. They're already "localizing" games and animes. Indies are the future.
It's spreading to Japan and everywhere else. It's literally on the ESG/CEI/DEI websites that their goals are for a global audience, not just America.
@@ShadeDrawssmall pockets thus far.. fingers crossed
@@ShadeDraws They will quickly reset when they start losing money. These Japanese studios are not infested with far-left cultist like America.
The only aggrieved group of people are the audience.
... and that's only because they have to shell out their hard-earned cash to pay for things that aren't even fun to watch. Just look at the new Henry Cavill WWII movie trailer - it just looks like it's gonna be a LOT of fun to watch?
Immediately I think about censorship in Communist Poland that was primarily performed by the Polish Main Office of Control of Press, Publications and Shows - if you wanted to publish anything you had to go through the proces.
But even that wasn't so racist!
Ive moved on. Terry Brooks has apparently kept on writing Shannara books for the last few decades so i have plenty of great stories i havent read yet. When those are done i will re-read the early ones until ive read everything again.
Marvel, star wars, or whatever. They won. They can have the franchises. They can do whatever they want. Im done.
White and heterosexual men should be sueing these companies in class action lawsuits.
Currently have this type of thinking at my company. It's time to move on for me.
Everyone take a minute and email the WGA. Tell them to stop with the DEI stuff and to snap out of it. I did it. You can too.
What's funny about "inclusion" is that I've never felt less included than I do now.
All these rules are nuts, like its the judge jury and executioner for creativity and art
"Gay, Female & Brown, brings sales Down"
Appealing to the Masses brings in the Cashes. $$$$
You know there are a significant number of recently unemployed writer across America. You know the WSJ and L.A. Times letting them go maybe you could get a bargain on a writer and expand your game. Do media.
Film and TV is not Hollywood or Bust anymore.
It hasn't been for over 40 years.
Right now, _today,_ an ambitious man could go to Dubai and set up shop in one of the Freezones there. Office, studio, editing suite, banking, business hub- and you will have INSTANT access to THE ENTIRE GLOBAL MEDIA MARKETPLACE.
There is no DEI regime in Dubai. There is no oppressive taxation or regulation in Dubai. You can hire and fire as you wish in Dubai, and you have access to talent from around the world- including all of these WGA writers being suppressed by the DEI regime.
Netflix _does not care_ where its content comes from. Why be slaved to Hollywood? LEAVE. Go where you're treated best.
Also, the Middle East has recently started investing heavily into their film industry, even going as far as to set up a major film festival to showcase their products to the world. The other film industries in the world have smelled the blood in the water, and they are FINALLY getting the opportunity to carve out their own global market share in film and TV now that Hollywood has failed so BADLY at entertaining their audiences.