Movies are important aspect of the culture
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I mean they did.
Don’t Look Up was huge. It had an all-star, ensemble cast and was one of the biggest releases of 2021.
How many times do you expect them to best the drum?
The Day After Tomorrow had a dude that was basically a stand-in for Dick Cheney so Dennis Quaid could tell him that he should have done more sooner.
Waterworld, earth covered in water after the ice caps melted.
Geostorm took for granted that we needed a global network of satellites to battle climate change.
And who can forget The Happening or Birdemic?
Oh, you wanted good movies? (tho I lowkey love Geostorm)
Many people forget that the reason everybody is trying to find a new planet in interstellar, is because climate change made theirs unhabitable.
Was it explicitly climate change? I thought it was “blight” or whatever fictional disease killing crops.
Not to mention the entire series of “Scorcher” movies, starring the famous Tugg Speedman.
And the message went completely over the heads of the people it needed to reach.
the message went completely over the heads of the people it needed to reach
You had a series of very cynical and deliberately manipulative media coverage of the film which tried to spin it as anything but a climate change movie. And then you had a bunch of “man on the street” pieces intended to make viewers appear stupid.
But the core theory of media influenced economic change is rooted in the idea that a movie can shift people from their profit motives. No oil executive is going to watch a slapstick comedy and decide to shift his business’s core financial model because of a few jokes. No bank executives are going to divest from carbon emitting industries because some Hollywood starlets made fun of them. No senior member of political leadership is going to change how mining permits and environmental regulations are written because Adam McKay posted big numbers at the box office.
The Network didn’t change how Americans consumed their news media. Soylent Green didn’t cause Americans to reconsider our policies on factory farming. Jarhead didn’t cause any military personal to exit Iraq or Afghanistan. The only movie that seems to have really moved the dial on public policy is Idiocracy, the inspiration behind Elon Musk and Peter Thiel’s quest to get more IT people to fuck.
My brother-in-law explicitly thought that the movie was commentary on “the liberal media.”
There was definitely commentary on the media in the movie, and society at large, and corporations, and politicians. But the core message of the movie was not just their willingness to let disaster happen in exchange for wealth and power, but also their willingness to lie and manipulate the population for their own selfish gain.
The people it needs to reach are world leaders, and that’s just not going to happen. World leaders aren’t blind to the problem, they’re just fine with burning the earth for money.
It probably needs a movie where red cap wearing idiots are made angry and Farquaated repeatedly in increasingly ludicrous ways before any sinks in.
Yes, because we haven’t been calling them fools for years, maybe we should try it! Maybe it’ll work and not just drive them further and further away from sanity out of spite!
We’ve also been trying to explain facts but that’s even less effective.
You are failing because you assume that when given the facts they they would agree with you. For the most part they know the facts and choose deliberately to act in the way they have.
Imagine what your decisions would look like if you chose to actively punish people you disagreed with.
You see someone running by the pool and say,” don’t run you could slip and fall.”
Solution one: post a sign and install slip resistant coating, making it harder to fall, but still possible.
Solution two: see the person running and deliberately trip them so they fall, rending your warning correct.
They have such vastly different motivations and priorities from you that you can’t understand how they could know the truth and act like they do.
Some people have been trying, sure. But most just choose to try and prove their superiority by being as obnoxious as possible.
And no, saying what you believe to be right in a condescending matter is not “trying to explain facts”.
You lay out the bare facts. Proof is demanded. You lay out proof: studies, papers, data. The response is that the data is made up and that these so-called scientist and experts are not to be trusted. That’s followed up that it’s all the fault of Kamela anyway because she slept her way to the top or something similar. Oh yes, great conversations.
I agree that the mocking approach doesn’t work in terms of enacting change. I’m still in favor of it for our own sakes just because it’s fun.
Americans love nothing more than to wallow in their own filth while pointing and laughing at their neighbors.
I am smart. You are dumb. That’s why we’re in this mess together.
I’m trying to get it, and it isn’t working, and I’m thinking maybe it’s not me.
Road Warrior
The Road
The fires that couldn’t stop (there’s a bus in this one too)
80mph, a story of fire and destruction
The fire tornado…what could happen if all them sharks burst into flames
Smoke. A horror film of what is left.
Just a few titles. Just trying to help.
