Its less that these films have the ecofascists as villains, its that they dont sell an alternative at all. The villains may fail, but translated to the real world, we never see the root of these problems addressed and dealt with. Jackson may get his head blown off but what happened to climate change? That was the real villain in first place.
Then they jumped from that to the villain being a girl boss wanting to legalise all drugs (How horrifying!) From memory the way the Pres handled the infected people was terrifyingly prescient.
I mean, i wouldn't trust femBezos to legalize all drugs. The pharmaceutical companies already have too much power in america, can you imagine their power if they made all opiates legal? The opium stuff in China would be a joke compared with that.
Oh yeah, that's a whole new topic that will be an issue 5-10 years from now in Western countries. Weed, hallucinogens, maybe even party drugs will become legalised but heavily capitalised.
Then again, the positives of potentially expunging drug offences might be offered as an exchanged for heavily deregulated drug laws. Similar to trading off continuing with Cuomo for weed laws.
Samuel L Jackson in Kingsmen was going to kill everyone but a few thousand rich people because of climate change.
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Its less that these films have the ecofascists as villains, its that they dont sell an alternative at all. The villains may fail, but translated to the real world, we never see the root of these problems addressed and dealt with. Jackson may get his head blown off but what happened to climate change? That was the real villain in first place.
Then they jumped from that to the villain being a girl boss wanting to legalise all drugs (How horrifying!) From memory the way the Pres handled the infected people was terrifyingly prescient.
I mean, i wouldn't trust femBezos to legalize all drugs. The pharmaceutical companies already have too much power in america, can you imagine their power if they made all opiates legal? The opium stuff in China would be a joke compared with that.
Oh yeah, that's a whole new topic that will be an issue 5-10 years from now in Western countries. Weed, hallucinogens, maybe even party drugs will become legalised but heavily capitalised.
Then again, the positives of potentially expunging drug offences might be offered as an exchanged for heavily deregulated drug laws. Similar to trading off continuing with Cuomo for weed laws.
That may be an american thing due to the war on drugs. In my country the drug discussion is more chill and WAY down in the list of priorities.
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He was a comical villain. Thanos is different because he is presented as "nuanced". But SLJ was just a ridiculous caricature.