What Next - Make Hollywood Great Again
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🗓️ 16 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The highest grossing documentary in 2024 was “Am I Racist?” from The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh, and it’s not the only avowedly right-wing movie that’s enjoyed success at the box office this year. Is Hollywood going the way of the White House?
Guest: Barry Hertz, Deputy Arts Editor and Film Editor for The Globe and Mail
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| 0:36.6 | Okay, pop quiz. |
| 0:39.7 | What was the highest grossing documentary of 2024? |
| 0:44.6 | I'll wait. |
| 0:46.2 | Well, it might surprise people to learn that it is Matt Walsh's, Am I Racist? |
| 0:54.7 | This is Barry Hertz, who covers movies over the globe and male. |
| 1:00.1 | I have never heard about this film until I started prepping for this interview. |
| 1:04.6 | Does that surprise you? |
| 1:05.8 | I think most people probably who listen to this podcast would not have heard of this film. It is a |
| 1:13.3 | quasi-Borat-like exploration set to kind of uncover the race hustlers and grifters working inside |
| 1:22.6 | the diversity, equity, and inclusion space. Yeah. I mean, the arc of the movie, as I understand it, |
| 1:30.3 | is that it follows one guy, Matt Walsh, who's a conservative political commentator, |
| 1:35.3 | as he becomes a diversity, equity, and inclusion, quote-unquote, expert. |
| 1:41.3 | But he's mostly there to laugh at the people around him. Fair? |
| 1:44.9 | Extremely fair. |
| 1:46.1 | Yeah, this is a movie in which its target was set way before any cameras rolled. |
| 1:55.9 | Watching Am I Racist, you'd be forgiven for being a little disoriented by its aesthetics. This movie was |
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