Why is the Powers that be, MSM, politicians, News, Hollywood, all rejecting the massive Movie Hit about child trafficking?

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[–]TitsAndWhiskey 13 insightful - 2 fun13 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

The real answer, IMO, is that the left has claimed the moral/cultural high ground for a long time now. Their platform, superficially, is all about that “peace, love, tolerance, acceptance” candy coating that makes you a “good person” if you are one of them, and a “bad person” if you are not.

But then the right claimed anti-child-sex-abuse-and-trafficking as a big plank in their platform, and that’s a huge problem to the left for 2 reasons:

  1. It is inherently morally repugnant to oppose the position, and

  2. Child sex abuse is danger close to the left’s Landsknechte: the queer and transgender community. Not to mention a number of wealthy and powerful string-pullers.

They know they can’t oppose it, and they know that it will eventually expose and undermine the people who form their foundation.

We are currently in the “that doesn’t happen” stage of leftist propaganda. Buckle up for stage 2.

[–]makesyoudownvote 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This is the first time I have heard anyone take such a based take.

Everyone here wants to go to the extreme and say it's because Hollywood is a secret kabbalah of Pedophile Jewish Satanist Lizard people or something like that, but the truth is much more simplistic. It's a narrative they can't control or spin to make themselves look good.

I think there is also another element to it though. I think Disney specifically passed on it because it's bad for their brand. The association of a Family centric brand with pedophilia just gets too messy. Even if it's them condemning it the association has been made and the thought is planted in people's minds.

I think with all these factors together though they pretty much have to bad mouth the movie just to save their own jobs. Board members don't care about woke politics, they care about returns and stock value. So studios are doing their best to avoid their board realizing how bad of a call they made.

[–]TitsAndWhiskey 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This site does seem to attract a large number of schizophrenics.

Not so sure about Disney being behind it, but I don’t know the whole story there. If they didn’t want it to get out, couldn’t they have just not sold the rights and sat on it?

[–]makesyoudownvote 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Disney is quite a bit like Apple in the movie industry. They are more than willing to take a loss if it will not benefit any of their competitors. They have more steady income avenues besides the success of movies themselves. They can make films that flop, and still make characters likeable enough with kids to earn their investment back over several decades of toys, merchandise amusement parks etc. This is what they were going for with Disney+, but they overplayed their hand, so this policy may be changing soon.

I'm not sure if that makes sense. Those are two industries I worked for. I worked at Apple for 2 years as a "Genius" including the 2 month training program in Cupertino.

I also used to be a filmmaker, and worked in Hollywood for over a decade. I have worked for most of the major studios, though Disney is not one of them. I did work for Marvel Studios though, just before they got bought by Disney.

Not that this is really relevant, but I technically work for Disney fairly often these days, but as an electrical engineer doing work at Disneyland.

I have seen them pull this strategy a lot. I can't say for 100% sure that is what is going on with this film, but given how they have acted with other properties, it definitely seems like their modus operandi.

[–]TitsAndWhiskey 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Matt?

[–]makesyoudownvote 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Damon!