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Hollywood Sermonizing vs. Good Storytelling

Alienating the Audience

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How to Communicate a Political Position in Science Fiction and Politics

I think you can maintain a political position and do it. It's just the method by which you're doing it. I'd say Jordan Peele is an expert at this. He's an incredibly talented comedian, but as a director and a writer, his films have political messaging,. But they're subtle enough that I don't feel like I am being lectured. And I guess that's the onus is there's a difference between display and lecture or journey and lecture. Lectures tend to be boring. So like get out has lots of racial politics in it. At its heart about the way black people are used by white people who dehumanize them.

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