'Woke has destroyed one golden goose after another'
Nolte says "serial liars" in media are making all kinds of phony excuses for the historic flop, but "the truth is that woke is box office poison. Why is woke box office poison? Because art fails when it lies and woke is not only a lie; it is a violation of human nature."
WND "In what is being called a "shameful" opening and a box-office "catastrophe," the collapse of Steven Spielberg's "West Side Story" is being blamed on the director's desire to go "woke," making a politically correct change to the original version.
"The weekend tally for the remake of the 1961 classic was an astonishingly low $10.5 million, with a worldwide gross of $14.9 million. The movie actually cost $100 million to produce, and some estimate the promotional budget at another $100 million.
"John Nolte of Breitbart News is among the most vocal about the film's tanking, writing: "In interview after interview, director Steven Spielberg premised his rationale for remaking 'West Side Story' on 'correcting' it, which is simply the most woketard thing I've ever witnessed.
"Here you have a classic piece of Americana, a beloved property, an iconic chunk of our shared culture that not only won ten Oscars, including Best Picture but is also still beloved; and like some superior, smug jerk straight out of Orwell's 1984, Spielberg decides he needs to correct something that, by any moral measure, does not need correcting.
"Even what the fascist woketards see as the original movie's greatest sin – casting Natalie Wood as Maria – is nothing less than a crybaby lament. There was nothing at all immoral about that casting choice. On the contrary, Natalie Wood's portrayal was perfectly respectful.
"The result? To the surprise of no one who understands human nature, Spielberg's 'correction,' which cost $100 million to produce and at least as much to promote, is a box office catastrophe." . . .
I have no interest in remakes of shows I once enjoyed such as "Get Smart", where the wiser Agent 99 became oppressingly condescending toward Max; the pattern for most remakes of older shows. I see no justification in this treatment of older movies with the glaring exception of wishing blacks had been treated with more respect instead of that usual wide-eyed wonder. TD
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