If you thought that 2024 was going to be the year of Hollywood finding creativity again, you are a child. Hollywood went bankrupt on ideas a long time ago and in a desperate attempt to get people to come back to it, has decided to just slap some “diverse” characters into it to make sure that anyone that critcized it/didn’t see it would be called racist and be forced to watch it.
In the words of Kathleen Kennedy, “Put a gay, diverse woman in it! Make it more #$@% lame!”
The latest victim of the raceswapping phenomenon is now the much beloved classics The Wizard of Oz and It’s a Wonderful Life. While not much has been said about It’s a Wonderful Life‘s plot, The Wizard of Oz has been making rounds on the internet since the script has already been written. In this reimagining of the classic tale originally written by L. Frank Baum, the raceswapped version of Dorothy lives in the land of Inglewood, CA. and instead of being transported to the magical land of Oz, gets transported to the magical land of Underhood where I’m assuming the story takes place in similar fashion to the original movie, though that might just be wishful thinking.
I don’t know what makes me cringe more: the fact that they raceswapped everyone or the fact that they changed “Oz” to “Underhood”.
According to the director of these inevitable DOA flops, the reason why everything must be raceswapped is because we simply must lift a mirror to the state of today because the original is just too dated. An honest answer from him, however, would be, “The original just wasn’t woke enough and we think you’re too stupid to understand a simple story from the 40s.”
Raceswapping everyone for the sake of ticking off a checkbox is incredibly racist, especially when you’re doing it while claiming that it is beneficial to people of color. For decades, people around the world – no matter what their race was – enjoyed and understood the premises of It’s a Wonderful Life and The Wizard of Oz. Even after the horrors of WWII, the themes of escape and gratitude still stuck with the audience. People of every background can relate to Dorothy’s wish to escape from everyday life and have an adventure somewhere else, and people can also relate to the struggles of George Bailey as he tries to find meaning in life. If you want to make a movie with a “diverse” cast, maybe come up with something original instead of ruining everyone else’s story.
Until next time,
M.J.
The Tanuki Corner 
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