Nelson Peltz, the activist investor agitating to win two Disney board seats, criticized the company’s “woke” strategy — specifically questioning Marvel’s “Black Panther” and “The Marvels,” which featured Black and women leads, respectively.
The 81-year-old Peltz, who has admitted he “never claimed” to have experience in the media business, made the comments about “The Marvels” and “Black Panther” in a recent interview with the Financial Times. “Why do I have to have a Marvel [movie] that’s all women?” Peltz asked rhetorically. “Not that I have anything against women, but why do I have to do that? Why can’t I have Marvels that are both? Why do I need an all-Black cast?”
“Black Panther” does not have an all-Black cast, nor does “The Marvels” have an all-female cast.
Black Panther made a comical amount of money. The “Woke” strategy clearly worked.
Yeah, but old racists don’t like seeing Black people on screen, and that’s what’s really matters, doncha know.
He’s clearly never even watched either movie, so his perception of them is probably based entirely on some far-right media interpretation he saw
“They literally whip white people and make them feel bad for what their ancestors did in that movie!”
- their media source, probably
That’s literally the plot of Iron Man 2.
Black panther worked though, it was a success because it was a good super hero and a good(ish) story.
- Because Disney/Marvel wants more women going to see MCU content. 2. Because it mostly takes place in Africa… And they want more black people going to see MCU content.
I thought this guy was a businessman. He should understand this stuff.
“Businessman” does not imply “smart” anymore. Not even “successful businessman”. This is a good example.
Did it ever?
It is synonymous with Capitalist, and we all know the requirement for that. Owning Capital.
Why do I need another marvel movie?
I for one don’t.
C’mon. lets get back real scifi. Like the OG Day the Earth Stood Still in style. More drama. more social commentary and less…pew pew and tinfoil bikinis. For anybody whose not seen it… the 1950’s version is a social commentary on mutually assured destruction and is still poignantly relevant today. (Also, you know the whole-Flying Saucer-lands-on-the-lawn cliche? yup. that’s this movie.)
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I am sure this guy also calls out movies with all-white casts, right?
I see nothing wrong with all female or all PoC casts. Prey for instance (the Predator universe) has an excellent female lead and a great Native cast.
Also this guy is 81, why the hell is he trying to get on the Board of Disney? At that age, working would be the last thing I’d want to do.
Because “working” on a board might require about 10 hours a month of your time, if that. You attend a couple of meetings where people tell you what they are working on, and then approve or reject the decisions they have made. And then you make bank.
I think Prey is the best predator movie of the bunch.
Personally I’d go:
- Predator
- Prey
- Predators
- Predator 2
And that’s just those movies.
Why would anyone want an 81 year old racist on their board Question mark
Curious, does this person have a history of racism or what? Never heard of them
Also why type the words “question mark”?
I’d say the example is rather obvious. As for the question mark, voice to text is temperamental and I’m lazy.
LOL imagine being so narcissistic that you think that what you want matters to the public.
You don’t need them, what you need is to make a good movie… if that has an all black or all female cast is irrelevant.
What’s the problem with a movie based on a fictional country in Africa with native peoples from the continent being all black?
They should do what the comics did when there were complaints about not enough white people in Black Panther. Just start having Black Panther beat up the KKK.
This turd is going for the “I’m not sexist, but” and “I’m not racist, but” combo record 🤦
