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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsImagine you're a movie creator for Disney...
...and, one fine morning, you get called into the CEO's office.
"Good morning. Would you like some coffee?"
"Yes, please."
"Frank, get our friend some coffee. Now, we've got a big problem that you can help me solve."
"You don't want me to fire anyone, do you?"
"No, nothing of the sort. You know how Governor DeSantis in Florida hates our guts."
"I'm aware of that."
"And we need to do something about that."
"So...you want me to 'de-woke' our operation, whatever the hell that is, in hopes that Governor DeSantis will like us better?"
"Are you kidding? I want you to write a movie that's REALLY going to piss him off. Make it live action because he'd be out of office before we could finish an animated feature. I'll give you a $25 million production budget, a $25 million advertising budget, and free rein to do just about anything you want."
"How about we do something like Song of the South, but instead of a kindly Black grandfather reading stories to children, we make it a drag queen?"
"Fantastic idea! It's Monday morning. Bring me back a preliminary storyboard on Friday afternoon."
Describe the movie that you would make.

emulatorloo
(46,132 posts)redwitch
(15,187 posts)The hero will be a librarian.
emulatorloo
(46,132 posts)redwitch
(15,187 posts)They will stop the evil man from banning books!
jls4561
(2,752 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(171,331 posts)I have seen a couple of cartoons with young gay characters on the Disney channel (the Owl House) and one of Disney's new sequel cartoons is dealing with some hard issues that will really piss of DeathSantis
These cartoons make me smile
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keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)A Qanon, Trumpster, youth pastor, Josh Duggar type, Christian hero, whining that he is being persecuted.
But I would have to let one of them direct and produce the film.
I could not handle it.
With Donnie Jr narrating it.
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)Special guest appearance by the Honorable George Santos.
Identified just that way.
Gay, drag queen, fraud, beloved by McCarthy and MTG.
jmowreader
(52,704 posts)If you were to make the QAnon Trumpster Youth Pastor Josh Duggar type the villain, then this would work.
taxi
(2,576 posts)I see no reason why Governor Treason should ever be forgot
Gay folks, gay folks, twas his intent to ...
Let's take a film or concept that is near and dear to DeSantis and his ilk and give it a republican-style massacre. The lead characters would not only need to be openly 'woke', but woke to the extent of promoting certain alcohols (like B-Light and Jack-D) from Iglu coolers with friends like Dylan Mulvaney, and hob-nobbing with Hillary, Nancy, or the Obamas. We need to slaughter them with each and every word and symbol that they have commandeered and identify themselves with.
no_hypocrisy
(53,414 posts)And have a buffoon resembling DeSantis play the goofy governor of a state who does everything wrong. Even that insipid commercial he ran the first time he ran for governor:
Explain federalism and states' rights. Again, the goof governor who gets it all wrong. And have Goofy try to explain what's up to the goofy governor.