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Go Woke, Go Broke: Woke Disney Crushed as Top Filmmaker Leaves, Calls Disney “Horrible Big Circus”
American Tribune ^ | October 24, 2022 | Staff

Posted on 10/24/2022 11:09:40 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/24/2022 11:09:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
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My take is that Burton wants to make more artistic smaller films and Disney is now just about cranking out inane blockbusters.

I don't think this is Burton's way of secretly criticizing their wokeness.

2 posted on 10/24/2022 11:13:47 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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--- "Go Woke, Go Broke: Woke Disney Crushed as Top Filmmaker Leaves, Calls Disney 'Horrible Big Circus'.”

So many horrible bug circuses these days. So little time....

3 posted on 10/24/2022 11:15:38 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow Government)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

agreed


4 posted on 10/24/2022 11:17:25 AM PDT by Irenic
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I didn’t notice any direct critism of ‘Disney’s wokeness’ either. It looks like Burton was saying Disney is stuck using the same basic formulas to create drama and tension that he begn using many years ago. Now it all seems to homogenized.


5 posted on 10/24/2022 11:19:15 AM PDT by lee martell
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I didn’t notice any direct critism of ‘Disney’s wokeness’ either. It looks like Burton was saying Disney is stuck using the same basic formulas to create drama and tension that he begn using many years ago. Now it all seems to homogenized.


6 posted on 10/24/2022 11:19:15 AM PDT by lee martell
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Maybe, but the live action Dumbo still ditched the jive talking black crows...


7 posted on 10/24/2022 11:19:47 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Haven’t been there since 2017-—we used to go twice a year every year. Also, we had the Disney bank card, shopped online at Disney, etc——like I said, we haven’t given them a penny since that time and won’t go back unless they change and apologize and pay reparations!


8 posted on 10/24/2022 11:20:55 AM PDT by mikelets456
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Don’t let your grandchildren anywhere close to anything Disney.


9 posted on 10/24/2022 11:20:56 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: Red Badger

What, you mean She-Hulk wasn’t a big success?


10 posted on 10/24/2022 11:22:34 AM PDT by circlecity
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The last time I went was years ago when my niece and nephew were young. We went to both Disneyland and California Adventure in Anaheim.

What I noticed was that much of the charm had been replaced by concrete in order to manage longer lines, e.g. no more funny gravestones to look at while waiting in line for the Haunted Mansion.

The only good thing was that they started serving beer, so I was able to take the edge off a bit of waiting in long lines... which was replaced by my anger at how expensive the beer was!

11 posted on 10/24/2022 11:25:02 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Red Badger

The headline is so misleading. I didn’t get the idea Burton was leaving because Disney is too woke.


12 posted on 10/24/2022 11:26:42 AM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: Red Badger

Dumb headline


13 posted on 10/24/2022 11:26:44 AM PDT by montag813
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Wait...they took out the funny gravestones at the haunted house? Seriously!! That was one of the things I looked forward to-—”Here lies Fred, a big old rock on his head”.


14 posted on 10/24/2022 11:40:15 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Red Badger
The unanswered question still haunts every heart -

Is / Was Dumbo secretly gay?

/s


15 posted on 10/24/2022 11:46:07 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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A congress of woke MBAs (monkey reference) can do that to a business.


16 posted on 10/24/2022 11:51:34 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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I have seen six of his films and immensely enjoyed all of them: Beetlejuice, Batman, Mars Attacks!, Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Big Fish.

I didn't know he was part of the Disney studio system. Glad he left them!

"Big Fish" was so bizarre and funny."

His filmography says he was an animator on Tron back in 1982, before his directorial debut in Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

He "acted" in "Men in Black 3" as the alien on TV Monitors. Kind of like the Alfred Hitchcock cameos in all of his movies.

My all time favorite is the "Pull the String" music video with the spooky theremin from "Ed Wood," starting Lisa Marie as "Vampira." Good gosh, she is such an amazing dancer and SO sexy in that video (she was a professional dancer and studied ballet for eight years). She was also the Martian Girl in "Mars Attacks."

17 posted on 10/24/2022 11:53:39 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The “I” in Democrat stands for “Integrity.”)
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I’m glad woke Disney is getting punished, but as with pro sports, I don’t really care what happens to the industry.

There are profoundly important institutions on the verge of ruination by the Left - Freedom of Speech, Truth in Education, Equal Justice under the Law, Fair Elections, Border Security - to name just a few.

The fate of the Entertainment industries should be the least of our concerns.

In fact, the most destructive trend in the entertainment industries today is not their perverse influence on society, which is alarming, but rather the wholly undue importance placed on them in the first place.

By placing so much importance on sports and entertainment, we have stupidly appointed hundreds of empty-headed clowns as opinion leaders, and role models for our children.

We literally have confused, thrice divorced (or more) sexually perverted movie actors regularly giving relationship advice on talk shows. We literally have drug-addicts giving fitness tips. We literally have bi-polar narcissists giving mental health advice. We literally have people lecturing us about self-acceptance who have had so much plastic surgery that they are unrecognizable.

And when these celebrities speak, people applaud. It’s nuts.


18 posted on 10/24/2022 11:56:08 AM PDT by enumerated ( )
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I live 2 hours from dw........I wouldn’t go there if it was a week free pass, hotel room and limo to and from.........NOPE.


19 posted on 10/24/2022 11:58:48 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Burton’s Batman: The film was directed by Tim Burton and stars Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, and Jack Palance. The film takes place early in the title character ‘s war on crime and depicts his conflict with his archenemy The Joker.
Box office: $411.6 million
Budget: $48 million
Music by: Danny Elfman
Produced by: Jon Peters, Peter Guber


20 posted on 10/24/2022 11:58:49 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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