Darc Requiem said:
Reading through this thread has been everything I expected, unfortunately. Variety, like most legacy media, is just coming around to fact has been exspoused by others for years. As has been the case, especially in the last 5 years or so. Content creators, on Youtube in particular, will point out a failing in entertainment media, get labelled as every pejorative in the book for it, then that very same legacy media will post the same views years later like it's a great epiphany.
Disney has gone out of it's way to tear down the aspects and/or characters that appealed to male audience in its IP. The audience expressed their issues, got ignored, and So they left. Anything that appeals to the male audience is viewed bad and/or archiac in Hollywood, so they refuse to make products that will sell to that audience. Ironically a lot of the elements that appeal to a male audience, appeals to the female audience as well. So when they alter things to appeal to female audience, not only to they turn off the male audience, they produce something that unappealing to the female viewers as well.
This is a big reason why Eastern entertainment IP has found great success. They have no issues making content targeted at a specific audience. Not everything is sanitized to "appeal to everyone". You get things like Solo Leveling and My Happy Marriage. The real way to "appeal to everyone" is not alter one property in a one size fits all fashion, but to produce a wide spectrum of properties with different target audiences. That's how you often get surprise hits with crossover appeal.
Side note: It amazes me how properties I grew up with wrote women better than content today. You wouldn't the Sara Connor of T2 in today's media. Instead of using expert tactics to take down men twice her size, she'd fight them straight up and win. Hell Ripley came into reality the year I was born. |
They know it in Hollywood that a lot of the same stuff appeal to men and women, which is why they often try to write women as men. 40 years ago the heroines of the story weren't written as someone who could beat a man, but as someone willing to put up a fight not worth fighting against her.
