The first Oscar in the second era, Trump celebrated almost a week ago. Far from the 2017 committed speeches, Hollywood seems to have resigned to this second term. Certainly, Zoé Saldana, Oscar with the best secondary role for Emilia Pérez, who talked about his pride of being “the son of immigrant parents”, and then Adrien Brody, Oscar the best actor, who wanted “a healthier, happier, happier, happy and above all more inclusive.”
“I suppose the Americans are delighted to see someone who finally opposes a powerful Russian,” said Bons O’Brien, presenter of the night, rejoicing Anora’s success, in a young prostitute who opposes a Russian oligarch.
Despite these allusions to Donald Trump’s policy against migrants and minorities, and their management between Russians and Ukrainians, the name of the 47th President of the United States pronounced during the night.
Not more than during the SAG awards ceremony, the awards awarded by actors Syndescat Des, a few days before, where only Jane Fonda had launched:
“Do not be wrong, empathy is not weak, it is not ‘awakening’. By the way, ‘Woke’ simply means that you care others.
A point aimed at the Trump administration, which makes “wokism” the source of all the evils of the United States and the fight against “wokism” its battle horse.
Other times, another atmosphere, in February 2017, host Jimmy Kimmel, who presented the Oscar ceremony, had not hesitated to qualify Donald Trump, who later began his first term, “racist”.
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“I know it’s not very popular, but I would like to thank President Trump,” he said, adding, facing a hilarious room, “do you remember last year when the Oscars seemed racist?”
Eight years later, the atmosphere is quite different. Even the most committed actors, such as Robert de Niro, no longer make their voices heard.
“Why Hollywood suddenly remained silent with Trump?” The apprenticewho told the little glorious beginnings of young Donald Trump.
“After having deployed all the weapons to prevent Trump from returning to the White House, dropping all Beyoncé’s performances, George Clooney’s articles and Taylor Swift’s support, the industry has practically been silent (…) since he won,” said the specialized magazine.
Already in July 2024, when Trump was still just a candidate, the Wall Street Journal commented on the “Change of Cape” of Hollywood to turn his back on his supposed “Wokismo.”
The economic newspaper cited the example of TwistersThe remake of the catastrophe film in the tornadoes, which not only evoked climate change, but suggested the danger of renewable energies, with large blows of flying wind turbines.
“Waiver of progressive messages”
“In recent years, Hollywood seems to listen only to the left half of the country,” said the Wall Street Journal, adding that “the conservatives now pushed Hollywood to give up progressive messages.”
Since Donald Trump’s return, several studies have also decided, as Mark Zuckerberg did with a goal, return in terms of inclusion within his teams. This is the case of Paramount Studios, whose leaders announced on February 26 employees, “changes in the way the company addresses inclusion in the future,” as Variety reports.
In fact, the Trump Administration is pressing companies to leave EDI programs (equity, diversity, inclusion), aimed at promoting inclusion and fight against discrimination.
In Disney too, the tone has changed. The company, which has chosen a black actress to embody the Little Mermaid in her live action taken from the cartoon, and organized homosexual heroes, has long been the favorite objective of the conservatives who accuse her of being too “awakening.”
If the Disney CEO, Bob Iger, would have opposed a law promoted by the governor of Florida, prohibiting that teaching subjects in relation to sexual orientation in primary school, Disney recently modified the objectives of their leaders, which are no longer to increase diversity and inclusion.
In February 2022, Disney renounced his Reimagine Tomorrow program, which aimed to give voice to underrepresented minorities and voices in general, for “a more inclusive world.”
The study also modified its warning messages that preceded certain classics with caricaturized and even racist comments. For the extreme American right, these messages were seen as the censorship of “wokes.”
In September 2024, former Pixar employees (in Disney’s fold) had worked on Vice versa 2 Available at the IGN site after receiving instructions so that the film’s main character, the young Riley, seems “less gay”. Recently he is a trans character, which disappeared from the Pixar series Cattle or lost.
However, temperate the Los Angeles Times In an article entitled “Hollywood has lost the cultural war”, “Hollywood has only made modest progress in terms of inclusion, in any case, nothing of the order of a revolution to be reversed.” For the American daily newspaper, “Hollywood’s claims to represent us have never been a fundamental ideological principle or an act of political solidarity”, but “a form of prognosis of trends.”
Hollywood “Golden Age”
To put Hollywood, a “formidable but very disturbed” place, Donald Trump, announced, announced three “special ambassadors”, Jon Voight (86), Mel Gibson (69) and Sylvester Stallone (78), three conservative actors who supported Trump. His quite blurred mission, oriented like everything in Trump around business, smells a little macartism.
“They will be my special sents to make Hollywood, which has lost many businesses in the last four years for the benefit of foreign countries, bigger, better and stronger than ever!”
“These three very talented people will be my eyes and my ears, and I will do what they suggest. It will be again, like the United States of America, the Hollywood Golden Age!”
Donald Trump’s three ambassadors, who discovered their new role at the same time as the rest of the world, for the moment they have not made a contraction advertisement to recover the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Source: BFM TV
