This is as much the era of MCU good guys will save us pornography as “aspirational” bad guys. Hear me out, how about instead of asking artists to take on the responsibility of guiding society toward virtue we put money into our schools and go back to teaching media literacy and the humanities.
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Greg Jenner
This is interesting, the writer of Breaking Bad calls for more positive characters in TV fiction, after realising
Walter White is often misunderstood by fans as an aspirational, badass icon rather than an obvious monster
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...
Walter White is often misunderstood by fans as an aspirational, badass icon rather than an obvious monster
www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...
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Also obviously ok for you to think it's a bad idea, I'm just saying we could both have less glorification of toxic masculinity AND invest in humanities education
Like why choose one or the other?
Mainstream writers need to reflect on the anti-hero archetype and how it has not told the stories they wanted it to tell. Shifting focus makes sense.
So many idiots misunderstand what he and Vought are.
At a certain point, you can't simplify art into being understood by people who don't know how to understand art.
Give me ALL the stories, AND yes, also teach more media literacy and the humanities.
Peter Thiel is a LotR fanboy. terrible people are terrible and will find their views in whatever they can.