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so I've heard a couple different people field the idea that in a few years
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someone will make a movie about 2020 or the 2020 election chaos or something along those lones
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lines
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and I think that like
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the nature of all the fucked shit that's been going on makes it kind of impossible to convey in a movie
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because nothing ever resolves neatly
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you have this big movie-friendly scary event! Trump's cult storms the capitol building and takes control!
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how was it resolved?
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they milled about until they got bored and the police asked them politely to leave
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then Biden was elected but Trump continued to insist he didn't and the left didn't like Biden much either
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and then Trump willingly left the white house and then went to his fancy hotel and not enough people were arrested
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it's the most wet far possible ending for a narrative about a battle for control of a country
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wet fart*
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There's no dramatic moment when covid was defeated, just the problem gradually shifting
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from "we don't know how to stop it"
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to "we do but people don't want to"
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to "we have a vaccine but there's not enough so it's going slow"
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nobody will make a movie about 2020 because the movie would be terrible
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there's no arc to it
EsperBot
I feel confidence in Armando Ianucci's ability to do it
magnet
you may be underestimating filmmakers' willingness to diverge from reality to force a narrative arc into something they can bill as a "true" story
BF
just wait until the alien invasion
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the alien invasion that slowly peters off as the aliens realize we aren't worth conquering and leave
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magnet
I, unfortunately, do not underestimate their willingness, but rather their ethics
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a sensationalist 2020 movie would just be maga propaganda
kamikasei
Ah, so a Damon Lindelof joint
Doge-lover Joja
I think you might have something with your boy Officer Goodman