Post by hi224 on May 27, 2021 14:29:35 GMT
Literally the entire history of cinema: Politics was a big part of movies both implicitly and explicitly. In Star Wars, the Empire were human-supremacist Nazis who fought against a ragtag group of partisans and insurgents comprised of various species cooperating with each other. (In Return of the Jedi, the Ewoks were the Viet Cong, and were the good guys.) The 50s and 60s were filled with red scare propaganda. The "body snatchers"? They were the commies. (In the 80s the red scare films mostly turned into "can't we all just get along?" storylines. Well, maybe not in Red Dawn.) If To Kill a Mockingbird were released today, you'd have a million doughy white dudes complaining about "that SJW movie!!!".
Ding ding.