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“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like [it] is putting forward any message,” director Lee Isaac Chung, who grew up in Oklahoma’s tornado belt, [told CNN] “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”
I’m sure his parents are thrilled to have raised an artist who is proudly devoid of substance. /s
You joke, but probably. That’s how you get people producing the sorts of propaganda that works best for conservatives. Its not about anything, its about how just checking out and going along with it is fine. And there’s a ton of parents right now who really believe you can tell the story of humanity without telling about hierarchy, slavery, genocide, and war
Glad to see The Day After Tomorrow mentioned, since it was my first thought.
I know there are others too, and this Twisters guy saying movies shouldn’t have a message sounds really out of place in Hollywood.
Honestly, the climate crisis seems to be a subtle or explicit theme of a lot of what Hollywood makes, staring in everything from Waterworld and Mad Max to Pacific Rim and Don’t look up, and if anything might be overrepresented in speculative and science fiction.
I don’t think that’s a bad thing now, but to say that Hollywood doesn’t have anything that talks about the climate crisis seems to say a lot more about the author’s either media literacy or taste in movies than it does about Hollywood itself.
It’s probably a pretty boring topic at this point. At least for a decade you hear about it constantly so it just doesn’t have that sort of exciting aspect to it. It’s like making a movie about inflation.
A disaster movie…made boring because it’s about the potential future that we are creating?
HOLY SHIT THIS MASSIVE, UNPRECEDENTED TORNADO IS KILLING HUNDREDS AND TEARING CITIES TO SHREDS! IT JUST RIPPED THA—oh. It’s because of climate change? Boooooriinnngg
I was thinking if it started “tackling” the climate change. But sure