By Steve Sailer
11/20/2019
From my new movie review in Taki’s Magazine:
When The Future Was Faster
Steve SailerNovember 20, 2019
2019 was supposed to be Hollywood’s year of Intersectional Diversity, but the handful of good films — such as Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Joker, The Irishman, and now Ford v Ferrari — keep turning out to be period pieces about straight white men made for straight white men by straight white men.
Reliable Matt Damon plays Texan race-car impresario Carroll Shelby (one of the more glamorous names I recall from my 1968–1970 Car Craze years), and Christian Bale is inspired as Shelby’s hotheaded English test driver Ken Miles.
While sizable opening-weekend audiences gave this buddy picture an A+ CinemaScore grade, presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg’s media empire was incensed by it. Hannah Elliott complained in Bloomberg that the hit film dared to lack today’s obligatory Diversity-Inclusion-Equity (DIE):
“But what I saw is a devastating picture of the lack of diversity that permeated the industry in the 1960s…. Because ‘Ford v Ferrari ’ shows a generation best left dead and gone.”
Read the whole thing there.
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