toobfreak
Tungsten/Glass Member
What I see is capitalism at work. If they include more diversity, they gain a more diverse audience.
That is a pretty naive and puerile attitude, WB. If we follow that logic to reducio ad absurdum, then if we make a movie about Mars, that should gain us a Martian audience!
Or maybe not.
In reality, the majority of the viewing audience is WHITE. That is where your primary audience is generally. If you market to blacks, then you are mainly marketing to a much smaller audience. If you make a movie a jumbled hodgepodge of nationalities for obvious PC inclusivity with no real support for it in the storyline, that does not mean you will necessary attract more Asians or Latinos, say, and if it is very diverse, you might actually LOSE some of the black audience or white audience who don't go in for too much psych-ops social "justice." You just don't know.
The reason? Super-diversity for diversity's sake does not reflect any actual real life situation in the real world. Oh, you will find a few blacks with whites and whites with blacks, the odd asian or latino thrown in, but for the most part, most places you go you will find that people tend to naturally congregate with their own kind.
Think of any good movie and you generally find the story set in a time and place where most of the people are this or that, rich, poor, oppressed, tyrants, black or white, with some number of variants thrown in as needed for the story.
A producer of a movie should have a vision of each character then select the best actor for each role, not because of diversity pressure or any need to conform to government-pressured social goals.
Maybe I'm not expressing myself well. But I have studied television and television writing and producing pretty thoroughly, as well as having done a lot of writing myself, both informal as well as published non-fiction, I've even dabbled a little at writing some science fiction once or twice.
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