Thomas Lifson, American Thinker "The movie industry has plenty of problems, but some of the biggest ones are related to the pushing of politically correct woke themes on a public that doesn't want to be lectured to when it lays out close to twenty bucks per person for a theatrical release, not counting popcorn.
"But it seems that this problem is even worse when it comes to the overseas market, which is absolutely essential to the success of big-budget "tentpole" films, which have little hope of recovering budgets that ran well into the hundreds of millions of dollars for production and marketing.
"Currently, the best example of this phenomenon is Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. It is full of wokery such as "'drag queen' Ursula, King Triton the environmentalist, mixed-race mermen, and 'affirmative consent' slipped into prince's love song."
"Based on a tale by Hans Christian Andersen, a man from Denmark, where Caucasians accounted for virtually one hundred percent of the populace, the live-action remake nonetheless has an African American actress in the starring role despite demands for other demographic groups such as gays, blacks, and Asians to be portrayed solely by members of those groups. ". . .
" Mickey Kaus passed along a tweet from an overseas man-in-the-street interview on politically correct American films flopping in South Korea. I have spent a lot of time in East Asia and find the lack of political correctness of many (but not all) people there quite refreshing.
"See what you think. It's less than a minute long....
Korean explaining why Woke movies are failing so often in South Korea 🤔
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) June 15, 2023
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