Citadel, Cleopatra & co: the Long Death of Hollywood kills with the stench.
I have described at length the long death of Hollywood, and I must say that the USA has had the rare blessing of having a second chance, or the possibility (offered by new players such as Netflix and Amazon Prime) to start over, with new ideas and new products. And at first it worked.
It must be admitted that initially the ideas were there. And they were there in the freedom of those who are aware that they are doing something new. I can have the idea I want of series like Lucifer, or Sense 8, but the point is that (even if Lucifer is very far from Neil Gaiman's idea) the film is written with the freedom of someone who knows nothing like this has ever been done.
So far so good, and the new workshops have also produced very enjoyable products, starting from The Expanse, up to Lower Deck, and several others which, first of all, broke some standards.
Then, something happened, and today the acme is Citadel, when not Cleopatra, even passed off as a "documentary".
- the first problem of the new US production is that it is bowing to the boundless expanse of shit that is politics in the Anglo-Saxon world today
Much has already been said about Cleopatra: she is probably the ONLY Queen of Egypt of European descent, therefore probably the ONLY one whose African descent we can exclude, i.e. black skin.
They could have used any known queen from the Nubian period (before the Assyrians derailed the Egyptian army twice), or even Nefertiti, of whose appearance little is known, except from the statues, a queen who by American standards certainly was not. "white" because of the features (all the statues show Africanoid features, such as the lips and the browbones). Instead they chose to make Cleopatra black, the only one known for sure to be white.
Because they didn't want to exalt a black queen: they wanted to destroy a white one.
That the Woke culture is a culture of hatred towards whites, moreover, is known and evident.
This is the first problem of the new media: they are being contaminated by the political miseries of a democracy that is now on the brink of civil war. Now, as a white male, Cleopatra doesn't interest me much: but if I watch that documentary I get to a certain point, then boredom, predictability and the taste of American stupidity take over and I prefer to watch old porn from the 1970s. ' 80. It's still archaeology, but at least they're philological.
- the second problem that is destroying the new US cinema is that they are starting to hire those who "failed so well" in Hollywood
But it's not just the mediocrity of woke culture that makes Cleopatra utterly repulsive, it's also the cast, and the production. They basically took all the woke Hollywood rejects, gave them a stack of cash, and really expected the magic power of money to fix it.
The result is that with a billion-dollar production they have been able to do no more than a bad history interrogation. Probably now the ignorant nigger will become an ignorant nigger very proud of his Black Queen . I don't want to touch the moment when the Romans arrive, conquer Egypt and make it a puppet regime, but in history they are portrayed as weak emissaries of a republic on the verge of civil war. In short, they arrive, they rout you, they repeatedly fuck you as the queen, they become an empire of which you are part, but you paint them as a weak entity on the verge of civil war.
And how did such a thing come about? Simple: politics and old faces taken from Hollywood.
Citadel instead is an example of how the mediocre come from Hollywood can take an interesting idea and turn it into the usual unwatchable shit, or an advertisement for the arms industry.
Have you ever watched a movie and suddenly seen a car of some new brand, framed as if it were an advertisement. Well. So you say "well, the brand has put its money into this film, I don't know, Audi, or Ford, or Daiatsu".
Here, you have to understand that in the USA weapons are sold in supermarkets, and that they are products that can be as famous as an Audi. So, every time you see someone pulling out a gun and holding it in sight, you should do as you do with Cars: here, this is an advertisement for Audi, Toyota, Ducati, Whatever.
Only you should say “this is an advert for Sturm Ruger, Remington, Smith&Wesson, Glock, H&K ….”. Citadel is one of these films, in which the characters, instead of knowing how to use only one type of weapon well, use indifferently about ten each, which is not advisable for soldiers, who must know how to use one very well. But at least twenty products per protagonist scroll on the screen.
The first thing that kills the movie is the improbability of the armaments, which is a blow job to the NRA. I don't know if it's free.
The second point is that Citadel is to Heinlein's Friday what Lucifer is to Gaiman's Sandman. If at least in the rape of Infantry of Space in the end a political film was nevertheless brought out, or at least of some political significance, Citadel is like Friday, if only we remove all that is original in Friday.
What happened is clear: we have to make a film. We could use Friday.
- Let's call someone from Hollywood who knows how to make spy movies.
- We give him the book to read.
- The screenwriter can't read, but gets the synopsis read by the McDonald's waiter. But only the beginning.
Strengthened by what he has learned, he is preparing to make a film. To recommend it is a girl who writes the semi-porn fanfiction of 007, who previously earned millions in Hollywood, but after the success of "The return of Ivo Balboni" and "Fornai d'assault", they don't even want to write the prequel of “Sharknado Eats Yoda”
It must be said that the woke culture had little to do with it here. Indeed, Friday might have appealed to those of the Woke culture: polyamory families, even more sex than in Sense 8, lesbians, and all. BUT also shootings and killings and everything. And spaceships. But Heinlein, who also invented the roots of the Woke Culture, doesn't like the Woke world because it reminds them of who they are, and therefore the opportunity is not seized.
Instead, due to an infiltration of Hollywood bankrupts, a series that could have been interesting becomes a sort of semi-erotic fanfiction of American 007 (so it will be like 00000-777-HUGE-GUN, for the SUV theorem) and so on.
Because this is Citadel: a spray of high pressure shit, only the shit is of mediocre quality and they tell you it's called Nutella.
The problem with this phenomenon is that while Hollywood is in a crisis of ideas and the new world is hiring, the same mediocre phonies who destroyed Hollywood get hired by Netflix and Amazon Prime, to produce unseen yellowish crap. since the days of "Mean Girls". For the uninitiated, Marina Ripa Di Meana's debut with great pomp (literally) as director. If you didn't know, go ahead.
Still under the heading "Santa Claus Conquers The Martians" (if you don't know this film, go ahead), we have "La Regina Carlotta", the story of (for a change) the first black queen of England. Inspired by Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whose portrait of the time depicts her as follows:
Which always falls under the heading "delirium Woke".
This is followed by “Anna Nicole Smith: the true story”, a film that I have already seen on the Playboy page, and ends with The Ferragnez, which I almost miss Marina Ripa di Meana. At least there's the Pompa Magna Factor .
We continue the season with Fatal Attraction, a film so sequel and so prequel that we expect the Jedi knights at any moment. Then there is to note silo , which could also be a train, or an underground city, and it would only apply the principle of induction.
If you thought global warming was a catastrophe, you know that The Kardashians – Season 3 is about to come out: the series that not even Vanzina would be proud of.
In short, the usual America: more of the same.
In a pain in the ass so screwed up on itself that the best action film will soon be released at the Cannes festival, and will be titled “The Lovers of the Villedor Hospice for the Elderly”.
Sooner or later, we will regret the good times of Kung Führer.