Not really. Being an iconoclast is one of the arts most valuable tenets. Im just not sure it’s the greatest thing for a major mainstream juggernaut of a property like Star Wars.
The point is that it only takes three month to become a marine unless you're a lazy fat ***k.
The core idea of that article - that fans who didn't like TLJ are the same as the tiny number of racist and misogynistic trolls who have attacked the film on the basis of representation of minorities or women (or even physically threatened people online) - is morally repugnant and the very worst in lazy (we're still repeating the disproven lie that RT was bots?,) corporate pandering, opinion-as-fact, progressive-clickbait journalism.
And are we seriously... I mean seriously... still trying to say that a film that sent such a deep schism through SW fandom has a "tiny" number of detractors? The core tenet of hundreds of these identical (often wording as well as content) articles since December is that something like 95-97% of fans liked/loved TLJ and 3-5% (or less) didn't.
In this article, those who disliked TLJ were: "a small but determined minority" (not just a minority, but a small one) then later "it HAS to be a minority" and always termed "fans" (in quotations in FIVE places in this article.)
But TLJ fans who created hashtags supporting the film were "promoting mental health awareness, diversity inclusion and a sense of positive thinking among the Star Wars faithful." Oh, brother...
The question is: why, if we are talking about a tiny minority of fans (seemingly a few hundred or thousand out of millions of fans,) do we still see dozens of these identical-narrative "support/love TLJ and hate the haters and their hate" articles almost six months after the theatrical release, and six weeks after the home video release? I mean when millions love something and a few hundred don't, doesn't the love just drown everything out by its sheer scale?
It's not said, its written. By the Marine Corps.
https://www.mcrdpi.marines.mil/Recruit-Training/
And as for done - that experience would definitely be far more difficult for some.
Seems like a strange thing to have as a goal - artistically or otherwise. Wouldn't it be better to simply say you made the movie you wanted to make, not the movie that would "divide" people?
Given the polarized way the world is right now, that actually seems like the stupidest and most arrogant a-hole move anyone could think of.
It's one thing to state that the number of deeply racist/misogynist people out there - the kind who go online aggressively and threaten people - is a tiny number.
It's another thing altogether to say that the SW fans who didn't like TLJ are both tiny in number, and are also racist/misogynistic.
Can you understand the difference?
Seems like a strange thing to have as a goal - artistically or otherwise. Wouldn't it be better to simply say you made the movie you wanted to make, not the movie that would "divide" people?
Given the polarized way the world is right now, that actually seems like the stupidest and most arrogant a-hole move anyone could think of.
"Easier said than done" is just an idiom. You don't have to explain it to me; I lived it.
Please keep the political discussion out of here.
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