No such thing as a 'propaganda' character.
I was a staff writer on a British serial for two years; there is quite literally no time available to crowbar in agendas and personal opinions and even if there were they'd never make it past the review and edit stages. Writers pick stories and characteristics that are topical, interesting and different so they can create new and interesting branches of a story, not the same thing that's been done for years and years by the same type of character, i.e. the grizzled divorced cop with nothing in his fridge, it's just more interesting to twist that like a Rubik's cube and pick different colours and patterns. There's no political agenda, writers just got bored of the lack of space those repetitive conventions afford you. It'll probably come back around as trends change, but this incessant supposition that agendas are being pushed is utter, utter crap.
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Strazdas (2328)
4 years ago
The writting timetable between a TV series and a movie are hardly the same. Furthermore, agendas certain can and do get into movies and TV shows, the agenda would of course have to be supported by more than just the writer.
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vegan_voorhees (383)
4 years ago
So you think that each iteration of a movie script doesn't go through a huge number of editors, producers, directors, and various other parties?
There are only trends, not agendas. People really need to get over this idea that any movement has the resources and greenlight to be able to force an 'agenda'. What gets asses in seats is really all that matters.
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Strazdas (2328)
4 years ago
It highly depends on the production in question. Some projects where you get the writer and director to be the same guy can easily mean that script does not get changed much at all, others may have designed by commitee blandness.
But this shit DOESNT get asses in the seats. The agendra driven movies have underperformed time and time again. Ghostbusters is an exellent example where the director was open about the agenda and it resulted im them having to give away tickets for free just to get people into the theaters.
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vegan_voorhees (383)
4 years ago
No, you mean it doesn't get YOUR ass in the seat.
One example hardly a case makes. That film failed for a variety of reasons, the fact people were boycotting it before it was even released being a major issue, which, you might say, was an agenda in itself: People claiming things are propaganda just because it's not tailored to their personal tastes *is* an agenda these days.
What might be the 'agenda' of the female villain in the based-on-a-book 'Doctor Sleep' be?
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Strazdas (2328)
4 years ago
Just look at financial sucess of openly "feminist" movies and youll see they all flopped.
I dont think there is an angenda in this movie.
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vegan_voorhees (383)
4 years ago
Again, besides Ghostbusters - what films?
Bridesmaids? Killed it.
Halloween? Smashed.
The fact that you had to put feminist in inverted commas also underlines the fact that even you think it's an ambiguous catch-all to try and round up examples under.
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