Lack of diversity
Just kidding. Why were half the people on screen, including extras, black? Oklahoma is 10% black and 75% white. Absurd.
shareThe director is Asian so that probably has something to do with it.
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MovieChat Forums > Twisters (2024) Discussion > Lack of diversity
DEI officers don't care about realism, only forced diversity.
shareI live in Oklahoma and there are a lot of blacks that live here, especially in the Tulsa/Broken Arrow areas, both of my next-door neighbors are black. Not sure where you're getting that number from.
share2020 US Census but I'll email them and tell them to add a footnote that 100% of your neighbors were black
shareA Census is not 100% accurate, it's just an estimation. I can tell you for a fact just from living here that the black population is a lot more than 10%, especially not counting all the Hispanics that are over here in this state. It hasn't been 75% white in several decades.
sharehttps://worldpopulationreview.com/states/oklahoma-population
7.21%
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Oklahoma
"According to the 2019 census, the people who reported that their only race was white consisted of about 74% of the population."
That is just brilliant. The freaking CENSUS is just an estimation but your personal observations from living in one Oklahoma town is a FACT.
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shareThe cast was indeed more diverse than you should expect from a bunch of storm chasers, but the two leads are pure Aryan.
shareWhich is why it’s making money.
Helen Hunt once pitched a sequel idea about an all black storm chaser team from a black college and Universal kicked her ass out of their offices.
That would have been a prime example of hijacking a popular film in order to use the popularity to push a message no one wants to hear.
I did hear about that. What a terrible idea and not even a realistic one. It's simply a fact that black folks do not have much of a presence in the storm chasing community.
I'm quite glad that Universal nixed her idea. Glen Powell is a good choice.
Not much? I would say literally zero. Ok, I admit, through the last ~21 years when I finally got access to the internet I'm only an armchair chaser but in thousands of storm vids I've never seen a black storm chaser.
There was one Indian/Pakistan-looking guy and one elderly black woman accompanying her white husband on his silverlining tour, but that's it.
I guess the reason is "victimized poor black folks are busy with surviving in the hostile world run by privileged whites who like to watch how tornadoes destroy lives of innocent people" or smth like that.
I definitely think that the vast majority of black folks probably think of storm chasing as "some crazy white people shit." But there are always those outliers who buck the trends of their race and act in contrary ways. I bet somewhere that has been at least ONE black person who gotten involved.
shareSad to hear Hunt is retarded as well. Not really surprised, still sucks though.
These days I try to stick to "never meet your heroes", because it can really sour movies for you when you see an actor on screen and remember the dumb shit they say IRL on twitter when they have virtue signaling competitions with their neo-marxist buddies...
"Helen Hunt once pitched a sequel idea about an all black storm chaser team"
Its was an odd choice for sure. I think she pitched the idea thinking they couldn't turn it down or they would look like racist. Thats my conspiracy.
Funny thing is the original had a more “diverse” team of characters.
By that, they were a group with a wide variety of personalities.
Besides having PoC, the people in this were all boring cookie cutter characters.
I enjoyed some of the members of Glen Powell's team and thought they were fairly well-defined, especially the rowdy Latino guy who loved shooting fireworks into the tornado and the brainy black dude. They were fun.
shareHow about lack of everything. Movie was a real disappointment. Story is stupid. I don’t even remember seeing a tornado worth seeing. Unfazed by anything on the screen. How can the original movie 28 years ago be so much better? There was a 1937 movie called Hurricane that was better than this one. I did like the music tho.
shareThe Dolby Atmos soundtrack was great though.
shareThe tornado in "The Wizard of Oz", filmed in 1938, is still weird and creepy as hell.
shareAnd the 1937 John Ford movie Hurricane was terrifying. Both of these. Hurricane and Oz. Were cinematic. Not quite a hundred years later we get a level 10 mediocre movie. Except for sound. Someone else said it better. Painfully average.
shareWhy cast minorities and have them act white? Never understood that.
shareWhy were half the people on screen, including extras, black?
A compromise. Nowadays, you can still get away with having the lead actors in your movie being white, but only as long as you load the rest of the cast with tokens to make sure the woke mobs won't come for you.
Once upon a time, movie watchers were only interested in seeing a good story with some well written characters and didn't get upset if they saw too many white people in a movie that white people made. share
Bingo. Movies for the past 5-10 years have struggled with the desire to both please people obsessed with equal representation across every protected class (the BARBIE movie even had a wheelchair Barbie, a trans Barbie, and an obese Barbie) but at the same time know that having white people headlining the movie generally makes it more profitable. That's how you get actors like The Rock, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Zendaya, etc in so many movies because they are racially ambiguous enough to check off diversity boxes and nobody seems too upset if they kiss someone who is black or white.
I foretell a future where movies will only cast mixed-race actors because they literally have nowhere else to go.
Movies for the past 5-10 years have struggled with the desire to both please people obsessed with equal representation across every protected class
They're having to do the same behind the camera as well, which will be a problem as you can't afford to have quotas for writers, editors and directors. They need to be the best or else the film/show with suck.
I foretell a future where movies will only cast mixed-race actors because they literally have nowhere else to go.
I'd predict every film will have a black and white lead as mandatory, but it just depends who brings in the biggest audiences. For now, Hollywood is quietly prioritizing white leads due to the massive success of Barbie, Top Gun Maverick, Oppenheimer and now (seemingly) Twisters. There's no chance these movies make half as much with diverse leading actors.
If that changes, then yeah, they'll push for whatever race is making money. A film will bomb if it fails to make any money in North America and Europe, which are white dominated regions thus Hollywood will always try to cater to these markets. share