They've always been out of touch, if you think about it. We've been fed and led since film and television were invented.
I mean, do you really think the average American would have been scandalized over the sight of a pregnant woman on television .. at the height of the Baby Boom (1950s, as in "I Love Lucy") when pregnant women were everywhere and pretty much de rigeur? Come on, think about it, who on earth would be offended at the sight of pregnant, blonde or red-headed white ladies?
Just the beginning of a thought I thought I'd throw out for to see if anyone else could think of anything similar.
Oh, and the creepiness that are Shirley Temple movies. And what buddy is talking about in "Anything Goes".
What makes you think they care about what the public wants to see? It's about finding the balance between subverting culture by shifting the overton window, and getting rubes to pay them to do it.
There’s a saying that Hollywood isn’t where trends are made, it’s where they go to die and that has never been more true. They just wait for something to catch fire on it’s own and then ape it as much as they can until they run it into the fucking ground and the public loses interest.
Movies have been getting more awful and woke lately because the biggest leftists are in greater positions of influence now, but the experiment has been such a resounding failure that I think even they are going to hold back the overt woke messaging, at least for a while.
People want to be entertained, not preached to.
Yes, that's always been true, but we've always seem to have wound up with both at the same time in the end.
I guess it always depends on how entertaining the preaching can be.
I wouldn't think so. Black Widow did not enjoy her time in the USSR, from what I've read.
Well, it has been 30 years, so yeah, cue "nostalgia" for the USSR for the kids too young to actually remember it.