Free speech and anti-woke sentiments are almost exclusively a right-leaning proposition in 2023. Hollywood, for the most part, has either stayed silent about attacks on speech, cheered them on (in the case of platforms canceling Donald Trump) or otherwise paid homage to the woke revolution. …
Yet Spielberg blasted the sensitivity readers who are censoring classic tomes to make them less triggering for modern readers. He even criticized his previous decision to re-edit his 1982 classic film “E.T.” to swap up some FBI agents’ guns for walkie-talkies to make them less threatening on screen.
That, the directorial legend said, was a mistake. Art reflects the era in which it is created, and he disturbed that reality by tweaking his classic film.
Now, Hanks is singing from a similar hymnal.
[Thus far, the breaks in the “woke dam” are only about their own interests. But at least it’s a start, and there are few in Hollywood more powerful than Spielberg and Hanks. — Ed]
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