“I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like [it] is putting forward any message,” director Lee Isaac Chung, who grew up in Oklahoma’s tornado belt, [told CNN] “I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.”
I’m sure his parents are thrilled to have raised an artist who is proudly devoid of substance. /s
You joke, but probably. That’s how you get people producing the sorts of propaganda that works best for conservatives. Its not about anything, its about how just checking out and going along with it is fine. And there’s a ton of parents right now who really believe you can tell the story of humanity without telling about hierarchy, slavery, genocide, and war
Reminds me of watching some behind the scenes stuff for the film Event Horizon. The director could barely stay in his seat he was so excited that they had had the brilliant idea to 3D scan the interior of Notre Dame cathedral and use that as their spaceship interior. Dude was over the moon. All I could think was, “Yeah, nice job. Way better than designing something original. Truly you are a paragon of the craft, good sir.”