More Hollywood hypocrisy: Variety demonizes critics of Christopher Nolan's casting in 'The Odyssey'
Hollywood and its media partners may have abandoned any pretense of creativity, originality, or intelligent filmmaking, but at least it hasn't given up on hypocrisy.Take, for example, the brilliance of Variety, a publication dedicated to entertainment industry news and coverage. Variety is, like most companies associated with the film business, openly and proudly left-wing.
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Hollywood and its media partners may have abandoned any pretense of creativity, originality, or intelligent filmmaking, but at least it hasn't given up on hypocrisy.Take, for example, the brilliance of Variety, a publication dedicated to entertainment industry news and coverage. Variety is, like most companies associated with the film business, openly and proudly left-wing. As such, anytime those on the right, or even tangentially associated with the right, notice or say something about a movie or entertainment property, Variety leaps in to defend their political party.Case in point? The difference in how they have treated the importance of "representation" in two prominent summer big-budget blockbusters.LIVE-ACTION REMAKE OF 'MOANA' GETS RAVAGED BY CRITICS IN LATEST BLOW TO DISNEY STUDIOSOn the one hand, there's "Moana." A fictional story based in mythology, set in the Pacific Islands, the original 2016 animated film was widely enjoyed, critically and commercially successful.
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- Hollywood and its media partners may have abandoned any pretense of creativity, originality, or intelligent filmmaking, but at least it hasn't given up on hypocrisy.Take, for example, the brilliance of Variety, a publication dedicated to entertainment industry news and coverage. Variety is, like most companies associated with the film business, openly and proudly left-wing.
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More Hollywood hypocrisy: Variety demonizes critics of Christopher Nolan's casting in 'The Odyssey'
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