Netflix’s Don’t Look Up
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Anonymous
| I just realized Mark Rylance was also Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall. Wow. I had a total crush on him as Cromwell and he was so creepy in this movie. |
Anonymous
I thought it did a brilliant job of skewing both parties and the idiots among them. |
Anonymous
+1 Those were the parts I truly laughed out loud. Too funny. |
Anonymous
DP. It’s interesting that you seem oblivious to the fact that much of the satire was directed at the left. Were you aware? The whole social media idiocy, the obsession over some pop star’s relationship with a rapper, the wacko social media mogul… plenty of absurdity to laugh at there. |
Anonymous
I thought it was Mark Zuckerberg. |
Anonymous
DP. I’m not getting all these “MAGA” insults. Are you really this blind to the skewering of Democrats that was going on, too? The whole, “let’s get past midterms first!” It definitely wasn’t all satire of the right. 
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Anonymous
He was also BFG. 
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Anonymous
The politicians in the movie were MAGA. |
Anonymous
And the dumb supporters “don’t look up! don’t look up!” |
Anonymous
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Interview with creator:
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/12/dont-look-up-adam-mckay-netflix-movie/621104/ Wrote it before the pandemic and then - after seeing the crazy response to the pandemic - had to go back to make it even MORE absurd to match reality. “ McKay intended the film as a climate-change parable, about how society chooses to ignore impending danger. But after he wrote the script and had begun pre-production, he watched with astonishment as a different apocalyptic scenario played out toward similar ends. “We basically went home … and sat on our hands for six months with the rest of the world,” McKay recalled of early 2020. “The entire time I’m getting emails and texts from our crew, from our cast, saying, ‘Oh my God, did you see there’s a tax break for millionaires in the COVID package?’ That’s a beat in the [Don’t Look Up] script. ‘Oh my God, did you see there’s people denying COVID exists?’ At one point I’m like, we don’t make the movie. It happened! We’re too late!” When he returned to the script, he had to make it “20 percent crazier, because reality had played out crazier than the script.” One “stranger than fiction” moment that particularly struck McKay was when then-President Donald Trump floated the idea of injecting bleach to kill the coronavirus. “Nothing I had in the script was that crazy,” McKay said. “So I added more comet denial … ’cause we were seeing that kind of stuff happening … In the edit room, we had to do this weird straddling of reality versus bonkers.” “ |
Anonymous
| We voted for Trump, and watched the movie last night. It was hilarious, if a little preachy. I loved Jonah Hill's smarmy character and his interactions with his mom/boss/CinC. I mean, it's funny in part because some of it rings true. (Now, I never thought of covid as being a world destroying, apocalyptic situation so I thought that was over the time, but the basic premise of internal politics overshadowing our actual, pressing concerns-- dead on.) |
Anonymous
It smacked Republicans around a bit more, but it didn't spare the democrats. |
Anonymous
I guess if you call the media "Democrats"? The only politicians (and supporters) shown were clearly Rs. |
Anonymous
+1 Not at all. |
Anonymous
DP. Did *you* watch it? Miss the shot of the president hugging Bill Clinton in a photo?
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