Ep. 1705 - Netflix Joins the Sick Movement To Turn Villains into Heroes
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1 hour and 12 minutes
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168.6625
Summary
Hollywood has been on a mission over the past several years to convince our children that evil doesn t exist, and that bad people and criminals are all really misunderstood. Today, we ll look at the latest example of this kind of slop, and I ll explain why it really matters.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, Hollywood has been on a mission over the past several years
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to convince our children that evil doesn't exist and bad people and criminals are all really just misunderstood.
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Today we'll look at the latest example of this kind of slop and I'll explain why it really matters.
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Also, horrendous hag Jennifer Wells launches yet another attack on Erica Kirk.
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I'm really fed up with the way Erica has been treated.
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Plus, the guy who owns ChatGPT says that he doesn't know how parents manage to raise their own children without ChatGPT.
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Well, I think I can answer that question for him.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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It's been hard to miss the ongoing effort to rewrite America's history,
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to cast the United States as a kind of international supervillain.
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Just a couple weeks ago, we spent the better part of an hour dissecting the 25,000-hour documentary from Ken Burns
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about the Revolutionary War, which told a flagrant lie, either explicitly or by implication,
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every 10 minutes or so throughout the course of the very long documentary.
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And the point of the documentary, of course, was to convince young people,
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many of whom will be forced to watch the film in public school,
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that America is a terrible country founded by racist misogynists who stole all their ideas from the Indians.
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As it turns out, according to Ken Burns, the Indians were philosophers on the level of Plato or Aristotle.
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You see, when they weren't busy converting human beings into stew or arranging beads into flamboyant patterns
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because they were too primitive to come up with a written language,
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the Indians were basically giving Ben Franklin all of his ideas under the table.
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Now, correcting the historical record with our own projects on the scale of Ken Burns' work
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could not be any more urgent, which is why very soon I intend to do that.
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But in order to understand the extent of the propaganda we're up against,
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it's important to recognize that leftists are not simply rewriting history.
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They're also attempting to rewrite some of the most classic expressions of American culture,
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including films and books that are widely read by children.
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In particular, there's been a very well-coordinated, well-funded effort
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to propagandize children into believing that evil does not exist
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and that any individual who seems to be evil is, in fact, a very misunderstood victim of circumstance.
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I want you to listen to this musical number from the 1961 Disney film 101 Dalmatians.
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And it's sung by Roger, the character, about the villain of the story,
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sung much to the delight of a family's pet Dalmatian, Pongo.
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you come to realize you've seen her kind of eyes
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the first thing that probably jumped out at you
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drawn by artists who cared about what they were creating.
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And that's why it holds up more than 60 years later.
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And it's very clearly superior to the CGI slop,
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Now, nothing in the film ever contradicts these statements.
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And poor Roger is your bold and fearless Sir Galahad.
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does Cruella de Vil display a hint of humanity.
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You know, it's the one where she's in the house
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for teaching basic fundamental life lessons to children.
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that some people will receive eternal damnation
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But the modern remake of this film called Cruella
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It completely rewrites the character of Cruella de Vil
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right in front of her while she looks on in horror.
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This is one of the worst scenes I've ever had to look at
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And now I'm going to make you endure it as well.
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Before we even get into how dumb this scene is,
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as the animated film that was released six decades earlier.
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Even the things they didn't need to fake, right?
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they're not fake in a way that's visually appealing
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But these look like graphics that you might see in a mall arcade in 2002
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There's no sense that any artist cared about how it looked
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or spent any amount of time on it really at all.
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And appropriately enough, along with the aesthetic decay,
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the messaging of the film has fallen apart as well.
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Now, in Cruella, we're told that Cruella isn't actually a bad person.
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Instead, she's suffered a horrible personal tragedy as a child.
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because CGI dogs ran after her, as you just saw.
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And we later learned that those dogs were secretly ordered to attack
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via dog whistle by another character called the Baroness.
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So Cruella spends the rest of the movie getting vengeance on this person
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is that the Baroness is Cruella's actual mother.
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And the woman who was pushed off the cliff by the Dalmatians
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was a maid who was told to raise Cruella from a young age.
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But in the remake, Cruella's mother killed Cruella's stepmother
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using Dalmatians who could be ordered to commit murder via dog whistle.
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So Cruella plots revenge against her own mother,
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and then gives some Dalmatians away as a gift to her friends.
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And now she's conquered her, you know, Dalmatian phobia.
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In other words, moral clarity, not to mention narrative clarity,
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The message for children in the remake is what exactly?
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Is the message that your mother may not actually be your mother?
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who are literally named the cruel devil are actually misunderstood.
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Like the people who every indication is that they're evil.
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Everything you see right down to the name is that they're evil.
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Maybe they've simply internalized a lot of emotional trauma
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from freak accidents that occurred in their past.
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it was tempting to dismiss it as a terrible film,
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Hollywood has continued to follow this exact template.
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They've taken an obviously unequivocally evil classic character,
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and then they come out with a new film or show,
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which makes the case that actually that character was the good guy all along.
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which is due out next year from Netflix, apparently.
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And here's how Netflix's official promotional blog
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This is a pitch that feels like it was produced by ChatGPT,
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When misunderstood Lilith is blamed for hijacking the royal ball
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she accidentally turns her sister Margo into a frog
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They don't deserve to spend the rest of their lives in prison.
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And the new villain to take the place of the stepsisters
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we see now in these shows, especially ones for girls,
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is that, you know, it used to be that the princess
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Cinderella has teamed up with a surprisingly dreamy troll,
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so they're really sticking it to the patriarchy,
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This is the kind of assembly line script writing
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Now, the most obvious response to this, of course,
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bound to get out there and keep his legacy alive
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has done and maybe she looks at it and sees that
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there are very hostile forces arrayed against her who want to tear down his
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legacy and destroy everything that he built and so maybe she recognizes that she can't
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afford to just go go home and kick her feet up for a year and then come back
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because maybe she knows that when she reemerges there might not be anything left
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when all these people that are trying to trying to destroy everything Charlie has done when they're
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finished so maybe that's why she's out there just a thought you know maybe it's that
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anyway uh Jennifer Welsh yeah that's who we were talking about well look uh
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uh are are you upset because Erica is still in her 30s like are you are you upset what you
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claim to be upset about or is it because Erica is still in her 30s and you're a 55 year old
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hag trying to look 32 but instead you just look like like the crypt keeper are you actually upset
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like is the real problem that Erica can form different facial expressions but you've injected
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so much botulism into your face that you now have the facial dexterity of Stephen Hawking
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is that is that really maybe what you're upset about I wonder or are you upset because uh
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maybe you're upset because Erica loves her husband and her children and meanwhile you're
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is your real issue that Erica knows what it's like to be loved by someone and and and to and
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to love someone and you've never loved anyone or been loved by anyone in your pitiful lonely
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maybe your problem is that Erica loves her husband and children and the only thing you've ever loved or has
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ever loved you back is a bottle of $12 white wine
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maybe your problem is the only person who wants to see you or is excited to see you is the
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cashier at the liquor store when you stop by 10 times a week
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even though I find you to be a miserable horrific person I would never celebrate and gloat over your death
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the way that you've celebrated and gloated over Charlie's death
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you gloat over his death you insult him you attack his widow and his family because you're an evil despicable horrible person
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but the good news for you I guess Jennifer is that you'll never be assassinated because you're not important enough for that
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which will be you know relatively soon in the next few decades because you're old
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we're not even going to know what happened because we'll just forget you ever existed
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because unlike Charlie you've had no impact on the world
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your death is going to be someone's going to hear about
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that's how people are going to respond to you when you die
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and if it sounds like I'm going a little overboard