Woke mind virus No 1

 Diversity and Film Funding

The Woke Mind Virus at Christmas

It is hard to make "straight films" these days, as modern Western Culture forbids it. Getting the funding, the cast, the crew, and the locations is all very difficult. You need to tick all the diversity boxes, even when making films or TV series based on traditional and classic novels such as those by Jane Austin. Your script must have characters that are homosexual, Trans, black, Asian, or other religions than Christianity, or funders at Netflix, Hollywood, Amazon, the BBC, Channel Four films, etc. will not look at it. It's as if the West's cultural leaders hate the past, its own culture, and are determined to destroy it. For instance, where is the film that tells the truth about the Crusades? A film that shows how the Crusades saved Christendom and well as being combined with heroic Crusaders and a plot that does not end up bowing to the Saracen. It doesn't exist; a combination of Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, and aesthetic sentiments will not allow it.

Diversity rules in modern film and TV production; I am always watching films; they are part of my life and work as well as "entertainment." I recently watched a film called Last Christmas. It was cleverly constructed to tick all the diversity boxes without doing too much to put its majority "straight" audience off. It was a romantic comedy between a man and a woman called Kate. So far, so good. However, everything that surrounds the main plot is diverse: immigrant parents, a successful lesbian lawyer sister, Kate working at an all-year-round Christmas shop as an elf shop assistant, the Chinese owner, and her boss, who is called Santa. It's careful not to touch on the true meaning of Christmas at all; it would not be diverse to do so. Christmas is, of course, the most significant religious festival on earth. Some Christmas Rom-com films try and get the diversity thing over quickly; films like Noel Diary where they start with the protagonist author signing books and a "Gay" couple come up to have a book signed in a short "funny" sequence, then it's all over the film can get down to what it's there for, to entertain those who like romantic comedies.

                This diversity in films and film production has been creeping in over the years. This thought brings to mind a film called The Holiday (2006) with Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, and Jack Black; this is a thoroughly entertaining film and in a different league from Last Christmas; however, it completely misses the true meaning of Christmas, and if there is a religious element to it, it's not Christian but Jewish, as we have Kate Winslet and some Hollywood movie people sit down to a Hanukkah meal complete with menorah, the Jewish candle stick for nine candles. Hollywood has let Christianity down big time over the years, of course, probably because so many Hollywood filmmakers are Jewish.

By Prayer Crusader St Philomena