"Less activism"... as if its a big bad word.
Activism is not the reason why phase 4 is not working. The reason why most hollywoodian stories are bad right now is because of one simple things:
Bad Stories
This is really hilarious because when you look at Andor, that is praised pretty much by everyone (outside of really ignorant Star Wars fans).. it is the PINNACLE of activism. Literally, you can't be more activist that this, its literally the most woke and leftist piece of media (with Dunes 2) that was release to this day..
But it had a good story.
So no one is spitting on it.. and even some bigots are on board with it.
The problem is really clear here and it comes in many colors:
- Some People can't accept bad stories who talk about women. Its hell on earth for them.
- Most of hollywood is pinkwashing important issues or are using white liberal feminist vision of the subject. Which render the stories.. just bad.
- Hollywood don't know how to create good stories anymore so any stories that has good political ideas but are boring will be seen as failures.
- People don't understand that stories are political and depoliticizing those stories is not really a good thing to do.
In reality.. When I hear "get the activist out of my stories".. I only hear "Don't make me think about the world, I just want bland and liberal stories that doesn't take me out of my confort zone"
We need political stories, but we need good ones.