The last big comedy movie released 8 years ago, proves that laughter is deliberately banned

by Joshua Tyler
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Quietly, while no one was looking, a full movie was erased. Now he has returned. At the end of this week, the new version of Bare gun It was opened in theaters, which is the first big comic movie to be released within eight years.

It was the last complete comedy to appear in the cinema Abi 2 houseIt was released in 2017. Then Hollywood banned comedy.

Abi 2 house It was a legitimate blow. Among the actors from the stars Will Ferrell, Mark and Labrag, John Litju, John CenaMile Gibson. The audience loved her and gave the movie high. He made good money at the box office, receiving $ 180 million with a budget of $ 70 million.

I tell you this until you know that there is nothing about it Abi 2 house A suggestion that large comedy movies are no longer a good investment. Quite the opposite. It was easy to make it easy to benefit from it. So what happened?

I heard some try to blame Covid, but this is not that, because Covid happened in 2020 and comedy films died in 2017.

The number of comedy produced gradually slowed down by 2017. In 2015, it was nearly dozens of large budget comedies in theaters, led by films like Ted 2and Paul Balart 2And the original Dad’s house. In 2016, this number decreased to less than half a scale, with Central Intelligenceand Bad mothersAnd Neighbors 2 As the most prominent entries.

Although the number of comedy has been released, the money was still important. Central Intelligence Alone achieved 226 million dollars. However, in 2017 the comedy went away.

She briefly returned to life in 2023 when Jennifer Lawrence tried to launch an abnormal comedy from p. No difficult feelings. In response, The press attacked it Therefore, it has not appeared in anything since then. It seems as if she was running out of work.

This is exactly why there was no comedy. No difficult feelings It was called a creeping and deaf tone of boldness to exist. The film, which revolves around a middle -aged girl who takes a teenage teen under her wing, was accused of promoting toxic masculinity and was considered an insult to the #Metoo movement.

A few ordinary people who saw it liked it. The film carries 86 % audience points on Spoiled tomatoes. But a violent reaction moved by activists in the press buried the film, which is barely registered at the box office.

This attack on Lawrence and No difficult feelings It is exactly what Hollywood has avoided over the past eight years, by refusing to make comedy. That is why everything, given what Lawrence happened, is difficult to say that it was not the right to work.

I am not sure that it was the correct cultural decision. Eight years have passed without laughter at a time, perhaps, perhaps more than any other time in modern history, people needed laughter.

now Bare gun In theaters, but it is not a brave work. It is a timing. The anti -angel mentality that acquired the evaporative recreational press began, and Bare gun It is the first to take advantage of the changing environment.

whether Bare gun Taking a good office at the box office is almost unrelated since the past eight years have proven that Hollywood is making comedies based on the changing forms of political bias expressed by the media, not profit. It seems that the media Orthodoxy, which prevented us from laughing for eight years, has embraced Bare gun.

The gatekeeper opened the gates and allowed all of us to laugh. I am happy, the comedy returned, but no one should be happy with how this happens. Demolish the gates. We cannot let this happen again.

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