"In the Heights"... calamity!
 

The trailer:



So this is really great stuff... it looks like the most diverse, woke thing ever, right? Like, I don't think there's even a white character in there. But the woke crowd totally turned on it because even as such, they've decided it isn't diverse ENOUGH. The director is having to make the rounds apologizing over and over again for "colorism" and stuff... it's all pretty amazing stuff. They really do love eating their own.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/20...ersity-apology

https://www.essence.com/entertainmen...ghts-backlash/





Also, nobody (as in, the woke crowd it was made for) is actually bothering to see the movie and it's failing, doing less in its opening weekend than even A Quiet Place made in its fourth week.

So not just get woke, go broke, but... get woke, go broke... and then possibly have to go around and make a bunch of apologies? lol... truly amazing stuff.

"we fell short"
"We are learning"
"we will strive..."
"this space is...."
"we will be better...."

All typical, liberal catch phrases that weave an empty, unemotional response to an empty, self-centered situation. "Recognize me simply for being here". "I am not represented".

:roll:

The apology playbook. You follow it to the "T" and then sit back and hope that you are one of the people who gets a "pass" stemming from the complainer-psychology-xyz.

I wish Lin hadn't even responded to this nonsense. I'm pretty sure it's a requirement for casting any of the roles for any of the casts of Hamilton that it's only POC. The dude is woke, but the people who complain will never be happy.

I just recently read some drama from the Kim's Convenience cast about how "oppressed" they were as Koreans on the set of a show run by white people. Most of it was just them being mad that the writers didn't let the actors have creative input because, "I thought that was a thing that happens on TV shows." Nothing terrible actually happened. It's kinda put me off from watching the last season, on top of there actually being legit drama about why the show ends so abruptly.

He absolutely shouldn't have. All of these articles and chatter and angry people thumping their chests angry at him are all in RESPONSE to his apology.

They're really becoming their own caricature right in front of our eyes.

Huh. I guess I always assumed that was largely a Korean-made production, but maybe not. The wife loves it and she's Korean.

And writers not letting actors have creative input is very much a thing. Every set I've ever been on, actors would be laughed out of the room if they showed up with "new ideas" for their scripts.

It's like John Cena apologizing to China in Chinese for mistakenly referring to Taiwan as a country or a state or something. Absolutely ridiculous.

Guy potentially ruined his career doing that. He looks like a damn fool now. Sometimes you just disregard and let blow over

And their reward? Probably a movie as diverse as this won't get funded next time.

Still going:

https://www.laineygossip.com/continu...-problem/68835