An election blog I follow mentioned a website that rates movies by being woke or supportive of conservative values. In each pair of movies below is one woke and one conservative, guess which is which. I won't have answers until Friday. Most of them are, I suspect, pretty easy. But if my guesses are right, I can't figure out why the WWII movie is woke.
1. Inspired by Toys:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Barbie
2. Disney:
Beauty and the Beast (2017 remake)
The Lion King
3. World War II:
Das Boot
Casablanca
4. Post-WWII American Conflicts:
Born on the Fourth of July
Argo
5. Starring Tom Hanks:
The Da Vinci Code
Forrest Gump
6. Black Protagonists:
Django Unchained
Black Panther
7. Westerns:
High Noon
Blazing Saddles
8. Directed by Mel Gibson:
The Passion of the Christ
Braveheart
9. Urban Corruption:
Chinatown
Robocop
10. Presidents:
Frost/Nixon
Lincoln
11. Amoral Tycoons:
The Wolf of Wall Street
Citizen Kane
12. Sci-Fi:
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
13. Supernatural:
Ghost
Ghostbusters
14. Indiana Jones:
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
15. James Cameron Ocean Movies:
The Abyss
Titanic
1. Inspired by Toys:
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Barbie
2. Disney:
Beauty and the Beast (2017 remake)
The Lion King
3. World War II:
Das Boot
Casablanca
4. Post-WWII American Conflicts:
Born on the Fourth of July
Argo
5. Starring Tom Hanks:
The Da Vinci Code
Forrest Gump
6. Black Protagonists:
Django Unchained
Black Panther
7. Westerns:
High Noon
Blazing Saddles
8. Directed by Mel Gibson:
The Passion of the Christ
Braveheart
9. Urban Corruption:
Chinatown
Robocop
10. Presidents:
Frost/Nixon
Lincoln
11. Amoral Tycoons:
The Wolf of Wall Street
Citizen Kane
12. Sci-Fi:
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
13. Supernatural:
Ghost
Ghostbusters
14. Indiana Jones:
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
15. James Cameron Ocean Movies:
The Abyss
Titanic