• Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    662·
    1 month ago

    Star Wars: Fighting space Nazis

    Superman: protecting people from Lex Luthor; evil billionaire

    Star Trek: Post scarcity society where all humans are treated as equals and nobody “gets” to be a billionaire (Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism)

    Doctor Who: had a woman Doctor once

    Marvel: “Evil is bad, how about let’s not genocide” (ignoring the billionaire worship w/ Iron Man)

    X-Men: always been an allegory for LGBTQ+ and disabled folks

    RATM: I mean, it’s in the name.

    Starting to see a theme here hmm

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
      12·
      1 month ago

      Star wars is also heavily influenced by the Vietnam war. This influenced is alleged to be non deliberate.

      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
        6·
        1 month ago

        It is hilariously appropriate that US Service Members often identify with The Empire and have on occasion flown Empire flags on bases

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          5·
          1 month ago

          Alex Jones often imitates Darth Vader and Baron Harkonnen from Dune (as in putting himself in their roles) when he’s bragging about how he and his fellow fascists are “destroying the globalists” 🤦😄

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Can’t find it now, but I remember seeing an interview where George Lucas said it was very deliberate.

    • vga@sopuli.xyz
      92·
      1 month ago

      Star Trek: Post scarcity society where all humans are treated as equals and nobody “gets” to be a billionaire (Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism)

      Everyone’s a billionaire in Star Trek. But oddly enough, everyone is controlled by a huge naval organisation.

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 month ago

        Nah, most of humanity at least is either living idyllic lives, or chose to live on a frontier world or research station or something. Starfleet’s just the exploratory arm of the Federation; but that’s where most of the fun stories are!

  • lemmyng@lemmy.caEnglish
    461·
    1 month ago

    Well yeah, they’re all woke now. They used to be woke before too, but they’re still woke now as well, as they should.

      • Denjin@lemmings.world
        201·
        1 month ago

        Woken was first used in the 1930s to encourage black Americans and other minority groups to be aware of the prejudice and discrimination against them by white Americans.

        It’s more like the term hadn’t become a catchall phrase for the right to dismiss all forms of injustice without having to engage with the actual issue.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          3·
          1 month ago

          It’s especially pathetic seeing European right wing politicians use the phrase. It’s always fun to challenge them to define it because they can’t.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    403·
    1 month ago

    If by “woke” you mean scientific intelligence, reason, truth, honour and compassion, then I’m all for it.

    • Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      1 month ago

      Doesn’t woke just mean being aware of issues in your society?

      I don’t really see what scientific intelligence has to do with that tbh.

      • queueBenSis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        61·
        1 month ago

        not specifically scientific intelligence, but more so trusting the scientific process that has been developed over centuries, and not refuting all scientific claims that conflict with specific political motives (i.e: believing that climate change is real and heavily influenced by humans and that we should stop polluting == woke. not believing in climate change because Big Oil lobbies ethically compromised politicians that then tell their constituents that climate change is a hoax; being one of those easily manipulated people == anti woke)

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      1 month ago

      We can legitimately level a lot of hate at Hollywood and a large swath of “content creators” online for escalating the very idea of “woke” into positions so delusional or terrible that I’m still not convinced it’s not just psyop all the way down. They made the idea of progressivism and social good seem cringe, socially out-of-touch, ham-fisted and unrealistic.

      I’d love to see less “recast famous story in new races for controversy and profit” and more original stories that show actual struggles that various groups face because of their ethnicity or other identities. (I’d love to see a superhero movie that goes after corrupt healthcare company CEO’s but someone already tried to make that story on their own.)

      They shot themselves in the dick for the express purpose of creating drama and engagement while trying to appeal to their mental image of “liberal america” in pursuit of profit, not ideals.

      Honestly, the new Superman movie is a bit of a breath of fresh air, it delivers a powerful social message without falling into the tired tropes and doesn’t sugar-coat it, you know EXACTLY who they’re targeting and who they represent. But they’re also not trying to pander to both-sides. They kept Superman consistent to his values and showed that bad things are in fact, bad. And bad guys exist and are bad. (And they’re usually the wealthy elite.)

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
    361·
    1 month ago

    Imagine that you’re awake, with your eyes open, aware of the issues in the world, and wanting to be part of making it better, and…

    …there’s a massive number of people who think you’re a shithead for believing that, and should probably be murdered for it. Just do what they tell you.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      182·
      1 month ago

      I’m convinced that that was just something that they decided to tack on to as an afterthought because it doesn’t really make sense to view it in that context.

      Especially if you include the sequels.

      • InputZero@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 month ago

        I think the confusing part is because the story of the movie doesn’t fit with what most people, including myself, assume a trans-film would be.

        The aesthetic and the environment I can kind of see are trans-coded. Jacking in to a fake world, and living in one where you’re your true self fits. Even the plot as a whole of living under oppression to be your fake self I can understand. Getting away from the broad strokes it really challenges what I expected a trans-film to be and that’s just confusing.

        • shneancy@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 month ago

          it’s not exactly a trans film in and of itself but it does use the those ideas at its core. it takes the vibes of the experience of being a trans person, and then builds a plot on those vibes

          it’s like a closeted trans film, hiding the true reason behind how it came to be. It had to be just broad strokes, otherwise it wouldn’t have existed. Even today an outwardly trans film would have a very difficult time getting out of the “indi film with no budget not by choice, but becuase nobody wanted to fund it” hell

          • 0x0@lemmy.zip
            31·
            1 month ago

            it’s not exactly a trans film in and of itself but it does use the those ideas at its core.

            The question if we’re living in a simulation is nothing new.
            It only became a “trans” movie 'cos the directors transitioned.

            • shneancy@lemmy.world
              4·
              1 month ago

              i googled if the directors’ intention was to always put that idea in Matrix and they said yes so i’ll to with that

              • 0x0@lemmy.zip
                1·
                1 month ago

                Which to me sounds like wanting to score internet points.

                At one point they cited Simulacra and Simulation and Ghost in the Shell as influences, so yes, it’s about existentialism, consciousness, the simulation hypothesis, etc.
                The trans topic fits right in but that wasn’t the original goal (unless they had a human of one gender jack in and be another gender in the matrix). Are any trans people in the cast?

                On a similar note, another such movie (from the same year) is eXistenZ.

                • shneancy@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  1 month ago

                  yeah i don’t exactly buy that it was intentional but both directors turned out to be trans, so their life experience is definitely reflected in the script. and to be fair, it’s very on brand for artists to say “oh yeah that was tooootally intentional, yes i planned it from the very beginning! yup!”

    • Tedesche@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      1 month ago

      It’s not about trans rights as much as it’s a highly metaphorical film about trans experience. So metaphorical in fact it could be argued it fails (failed) in its messaging. Even after the Wachowski sisters broke the news to everyone, the film still isn’t regarded that way. It’s a nice after note and I’m certainly not trying to rag on trans rights or issues here, it’s just that The Matrix didn’t do much of anything for trans people.

      • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world
        101·
        1 month ago

        The major theme of the film is awakening from a false consciousness. It’s an existentialist picture. This leaves it open to any of countless interpretations unrelated to gender. I think many more people have interpreted the film as Christian with Neo in the role of Jesus and with some of the names of characters and places having biblical themes. The film’s actual depiction of gender is rather conventional, including the action girl trope shown by the character Trinity.

        Taken together, these two details make it very difficult to support the Wachowskis’ claim in the text. If anything, the opposite could be argued.

    • SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 month ago

      It’s also about the art of bullet-dodging in a very cool way and with style. And the scientific evidence that the 90’s were the peak of humanity.

      • HiddenLychee@lemmy.world
        7·
        1 month ago

        The two “brothers” who made the movie came out as both trans years later and said it was about their trans experience. Not so much about “rights” tho

        • brown_guy45@lemmy.zip
          3·
          1 month ago

          They came out as trans, that’s right

          But how is the story of matrix related to trans experience

          • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
            4·
            1 month ago

            The whole real vs fake world, realizing you have to get out of the fake one… That’s an egg cracking metaphor I guess?

            • mbfalzar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              3·
              1 month ago

              And that Neo finally understood who he was and what his place was after taking the red pill, with estradiol being a red pill at the time

              • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
                2·
                1 month ago

                Oh yeah I forgot the whole pill thing, I only focused on the actual transition of his being.

                This makes all those “redpilled” right wingers even funnier lmao

              • 0x0@lemmy.zip
                12·
                1 month ago

                Yeah but he transitioned from Mr Anderson to Neo, he didn’t transition to Neette did he? So no, it’s not about trans people or their rights, it’s about existentialism in general.

          • 0x0@lemmy.zip
            24·
            1 month ago

            It’s not, they just wanted to score internet points.

  • AlexLost@lemmy.world
    17·
    1 month ago

    Little babies getting their feelings hurt. If only they could read and understand that woke is a form of being awake/aware and their self owns by making fun of it is blatantly hilarious. Only the media and the right get all up in arms over woke, the rest of us just call it reality.

    • shneancy@lemmy.world
      26·
      1 month ago

      graphics person here - so what you want to get is krita or gimp, krita has better UI, gimp is more versitile. Or photoshop if you feel like uhh, borrowing it from adobe (don’t give them money they have enough)

      • put them meme into the software or your choosing

      • now if you can find a tool that says something like “healing” “spot healing” “patch” or “clone stamp” you can use them to remove the text that’s already there, all those tools work a little differently but can get you where you want to be, so play around with them and find your favourite

      • alternatively if that sounds too advanced you can brute force it, it won’t look as seemless but it will get the job done. make a new layer, select a brush with soft edges and ~80% opacity, and then use the eyedropper tool (usual shortcut should be holding alt and clicking on the colour you want) and remove the text by covering it with the same colour that surrounds it. You’ll notice how eventually the colour you sourced doesn’t blend in, then what you need to do is grab a new colour that’s nearby. Rinse and repeat until fully covered and blended

      • add text

      • if your text overlaps some parts of the image you don’t want it to overlap you might find yourself wanting to erase a bit of it and not being able to. That’s because the text is still text, fully editable. To change that you can either convert it to a normal layer (usually done by right clicking on the text layer and looking for something that says “convert”) or (and that’s the better option if you want to keep the text editable) you can apply a mask onto the text layer (should be a button for it next to “add layer” button), then as you have the mask selected draw with pure black over the elements you don’t want the text to cover

      i’m basing this mini-tutorial on photoshop so exact names and places of the tools you want might be different, but the process should be the same across most if not all image editing software

        • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          1 month ago

          Uh, I don’t know, Facebook possibly? I don’t label the origin of things I download. There seems to be a signature of some sort as ‘SW HG’, look that up, I guess.