[ SECRET POST #6532 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6532 ⌋

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Comments

[thewakokid]

Me, I'm just trying to break out of the Hollywood mentality of the world where everyone needs to either be a hero or a villain.

I mean it's not easy, because that feels to me like the /correct/ way to think about the world.

Which makes me right.

Which makes me the hero and the other people clinging on to their view of the world as full of either heroic or villainous people the REAL villains.

Which is fucking frustrating. Real catch22 shit. Got a brain that's been really fucked by the hollywood format.

[(Anonymous)]

But at least you're aware. A lot of people aren't even aware of the biases that Hollywood or various media has ingrained in them.

The first time you get your eyes opened to those kind of biases you've grown up with it is just shocking and then infuriating. I spent a lot of years angry before I could move on. It's a tough chapter.

[thewakokid]

It's certainly a start, but I dunno. I worry it's less Hollywood brainwashing, and just a symptom of humanity. Like, we as an animal HAVE to see the world like that to function. Wolves see the world as either threats, food, or mates, and if they started trying to rationalize themselves out of being aggressive animals, they would simply die.

Maybe the reason hollywood tells us this "You are the goodguy, there are bad guys out there, get angry at them, make your rationalizations, find them, and fight them, never stop finding and fighting them" message is not to make it happen but because it's what we need to see in the world.

Which I fucking hate, because I don't believe it's a reflection of reality anymore.

[philstar22]

That used to be the Hollywood mentality. These days the mentality is every character has to be gray to black, even the "heroes."

[(Anonymous)]

I read that as "every character has to be gay or black" and was like o.O did philstar get hacked?? That is not on trend with their usual comments! And then I reread and slapped myself xD

[thewakokid]

Red-pilstar22

[(Anonymous)]

Okay you got me, I laughed at that one

[thewakokid]

I dunno, I think they keep the general theme of "This makes that guy bad, killing this guy makes you good" they just removed the Hayes code demand for purity.

Villains have to be redeemed... so that they can fight worse villains. Heroes have to be selfish and gray and horrible and mean... so that the people who act that way in real life will be able to see themselves and in our "heroic" character.

But at the end of the day however much they muddy it, however much they always try to sell you on "There is no good, there is only worse and worse evils", they're still telling us we "It's ok to be evil... as long as you find the guy who's worse than you and you hate him and you fight him and you kill him, then your goodness can be established without you needing to do anything to actually BE good."

I dunno if that makes sense, I guess I'm half rambling.

[philstar22]

At that point I'm not sure what the alternative would be? When you are reading or watching something, there should be at least one character the audience is following, and they need to have conflict to make the story work.