In the Star Trek thread I said that Hollywood is currently a cesspool of nepotism, and in Lindsay Ellis's thread I said she definitely got her book deal as a favor because she knows someone.
It's nice to see the circle of nepotism complete itself. Get yourself a book deal by knowing someone in publishing, then get it made into a movie because they know someone in film or vice versa. A nice little happy ring of people jacking each other off and calling it art.
Now now now. It's NOT Nepotism. It's CRONY-ism. Nepotism is what happens when you hire your relatives. (Technically, both terms work, but Nepotism is more associated with family, cronyism is more associated with friends and supporters.)
The problem with Bob and Noelle's idea of "Let's make a blockbuster movie about X Disaster, but lets have the main couple be lesbians!" Is that when you do that, the LGBTQism overshadows the disaster and the film is more an LGBTQ movie than it is a disaster movie. The only way it could really work is if you used an older disaster movie formula where you have the camera follow a bunch of couples around, one of which is a gay couple. The focus would therefore not be on the gayness, but on the events of the disaster. (The
Hyatt Regency Skywalk Hotel disaster would probably be a good disaster to make into a disaster movie, since it
had a documented gay couple attending it, who were affected by the tragedy. ) If the Woke Patrol were smart, they'd make a disaster movie which showed gay people caring just as much for their dead or injured partners as anyone else. No one in the Current Year would even bat an eye about them being gay.
But Bob "Eats a Lot of Chips, Man" is NOT smart. What he wants is a version of
Titanic that's basically
Blue is the Warmest Color in gorgeous period dress. Never mind the fact that it just wouldn't work. The main obstacle between the main characters in the original Titanic is the fact that they are from different CLASSES. Turn them both into Carpet Aficianados, and the class element fades into the background, replaced by the LGBTQ element. Also, the circumstances under which gay people lived were far different in the past than they are now. People complained that the hetero romance in Titanic seemed too modern to be believable but a gay romance where the two participants spoke and acted like 2020 Tumblr Lesbians would be too much to buy. If two girls
did fall in love back then, they would probably have lived openly together in a
Boston Marriage (which has nothing to do with MovieBob.) Independent women who lived together like this may or may not have been lesbians, but were pretty much accepted until the 1920s, when society started to frown on the phenomenon. Modern day SJWism, however, would never accept the historical concessions of lesbian relationships in the 1910s and would have had both Kate and "Jacqueline" declaring their undying love to the crowd as the ship went down, with everyone cheering that homophobia had been defeated, even as the freezing water of the North Atlantic was lapping at their heels.
TL;DR: a disaster movie starring gay people could be done, but spergs like MovieBob and Noelle would end up turning it into a cringy lesbian porno film.