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Hollywood movies rarely reflect climate change crisis. These researchers want to change that
apnews.com ^ | 5/28/2024 | Patrick Whittle

Posted on 06/04/2024 6:29:52 AM PDT by rktman

Aquaman might not mind if the oceans rise, but moviegoers might.

That’s one of the takeaways from a new study conducted by researchers who set out to determine if today’s Hollywood blockbusters are reflective of the current climate crisis. The vast majority of movies failed the “climate reality check” proposed by the authors, who surveyed 250 movies from 2013 to 2022.

The test is simple — the authors looked to see if a movie presented a story in which climate change exists, and whether a character knows it does. One film that passed the test was the 2017 superhero movie “Justice League, " in which Jason Momoa’s Aquaman character says, “Hey, I don’t mind if the oceans rise” to Ben Affleck’s Bruce Wayne.

But most movies fell short — fewer than 10% of the 250 films passed, and climate change was mentioned in two or more scenes of fewer than 4% of the films. That’s out of touch with a moviegoing public that wants “to see their reality reflected on screen,” said Colby College English professor Matthew Schneider-Mayerson, lead researcher on the study.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climate; ecowankers; gangreen; hollywood; lyingliars; movies; propaganda
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Well, IF there was a climate crisis. Will hollyweird put out another check list of movie requirements. DEI compliant. ADA compliant. EEOC compliant. Climate crisis compliant. Dear assclown climate ex-spurts. Please respond to the following:

1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.

2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.

3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet.

4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.

5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.

6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.

7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.

We'll wait.

1 posted on 06/04/2024 6:29:52 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

They rarely reflect God....and the “EVER CHANGING” world HE created.


2 posted on 06/04/2024 6:32:08 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: rktman

Good for the researchers. I hope they force Hollywood to include some climate change propaganda in every film as a “good citizen” gesture. After all, how can they ignore the biggest threat facing humanity? It would be a great way to get more people to watch their movies.


3 posted on 06/04/2024 6:32:18 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: rktman

What a bunch of jackasses.


4 posted on 06/04/2024 6:34:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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To: rktman

Communists are very good at solving imaginary problems.


5 posted on 06/04/2024 6:35:27 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: rktman

According to the “science” and the propagandists we are supposed to be under a mile of ICE right now, why did the impending ICE AGE change in to global warming in 1985???


6 posted on 06/04/2024 6:35:40 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Bull! We watdh nothing but turner classic movies because movies of today are so vile and stomach turning- but even movies from the 40’s and 50’s were blatting on about climate change, and shows from that period were also doing so as well! Later shows like mutual of Omaha sanctimonious preached about the evils of man, claiming that we were destroying g the planet, and were nothing more than viruses preying on the saintly Animals and planet.

I watch a show I haven’t seen in d3cades, and am astonished at how political they were- back then we didn’t see it beczuse we watched shows for entertainment and content, not for their self sanctimonious, self-loathing preaching.


7 posted on 06/04/2024 6:35:57 AM PDT by Bob434
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WaterWorld
8 posted on 06/04/2024 6:36:58 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: rlmorel

Apparently, movies with racial or homosexual themes don’t lose enough money to satisfy Hollywood loons. If’s time to drop the big one.


9 posted on 06/04/2024 6:37:03 AM PDT by JimmyTheFish
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To: rktman

As if filmmakers need another arbitrary box to check on the Official Comprehensive Activist Matrix of Mandatory Themes.

I am coming around to the view that we are now past peak woke and that the major studios will begin to back off the extreme politicization. (Aside from Disney, which seems determined to turn the House of Mouse into a rainbow flag fortress.)

Time will tell, but if the major studios don’t straighten up, independent films and foreign films will be the future.


10 posted on 06/04/2024 6:39:16 AM PDT by sphinx
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And just what climate change crisis is that?


11 posted on 06/04/2024 6:39:17 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand (Mp)
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Yeah...because shoving lesbians and girl bosses down our throats has done such wonders for their box office draw....
12 posted on 06/04/2024 6:39:43 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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Oh, yes. We don’t get enough left wing propaganda in entertainment. It’s up to those geniuses to show us cretins the way


13 posted on 06/04/2024 6:41:33 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: From The Deer Stand

“And just what climate change crisis is that?”

The one that causes big Hollywood stars (and top politicians) to buy mountain properties and shun the oceanside properties? It is the crisis that has led the wealthy of Hollywood to live in Oklahoma...


14 posted on 06/04/2024 6:42:22 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: j.havenfarm

LOL, what would we do without them?

But they are certainly getting money from somewhere. How are all these loser movies being made? It can’t be to make money.


15 posted on 06/04/2024 6:44:08 AM PDT by rlmorel (In Today's Democrat America, The $5 Dollar Bill is the New $1 Dollar Bill.)
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Exactly.


16 posted on 06/04/2024 6:44:39 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: From The Deer Stand

The one that they mistakenly believe was caused by capitalism and that in order to fix it, we must embrace socialism despite its horrible track record.


17 posted on 06/04/2024 6:45:51 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: rktman

Put a chick in it and make her gay and make the whole plot about climate change.


18 posted on 06/04/2024 6:45:55 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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“make her gay”? LOL! Pretty sure that’s why ‘woke house’ spokesperson, creamy john pee-air got her/their/thems job. Plus she gets points for being a bipoc.


19 posted on 06/04/2024 6:52:52 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

Bollocks; any end of the world or disaster movie always pipes climate nonsense into the plot.


20 posted on 06/04/2024 7:03:23 AM PDT by mykroar ("It's Not the Nature of the Evidence; It's the Seriousness of the Charge." - El Rushbo)
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