There is one thing that i'm reasonably certain has happened.The post-9/11 era of moviemaking is over in the US.For 19 years movies in the US were under the shadow of 9/11.Sometimes it was so overt it was actually grating like in Man of steel othertimes it was more in the background but still there.Now with this pandemic which comes right when a new post-9/11 generation is reaching adulthood the post-9/11 movie is no longer 'relevant'.When you have NYC EMS who were at the Twin Towers say 'the pandemic was far worse than 9/11' then you know that 9/11 has been finally sent into the history books and its no longer something that is hanging over society.And culture will have to respond to that.Its almost fitting that Avengers Endgame came out in 2019 because in hindsight you can almost say it capped off the 9/11 era.
Intresting.
You have to be careful there, there's a certain amount of truth to that but not necessarily in the big picture. They were comparable to other major productions at first, but their biggest line item was set design -- production crews were just building whole-ass Broadway sets in sound stages. I want to say something like half of Top Hat's budget went into building that ridiculous set. As producers figured out they didn't have to go to such extravagances, musicals' budgets inflated slower than comparable films. We could argue all day whether something like The Little Princess was a toned-down musical or a drama with song and dance numbers, but at the end of the day it still had a lower budget than Mr. Smith Goes to Washington -- and that was taking into account Temple's ridiculous salaries and the post-production shoots.
Also, air conditioning and central heating. That said, it was also the heyday of movie palaces' growth in major cities, and a transitional period wavering between arcades in smaller cities and dedicated theaters that had to lean heavily on value addition to attract crowds. I don't see any of that making a long-term resurgence though.
I'll merrily shit on the MCU all day as popcorn-muncher capeshit, but I have to give it credit for capturing the post-9/11 zeitgeist in a way no other series of films have. It covers all the bases from Captain Marvel's naked militaristic jingoism to the complete opposite in Winter Soldier, and from Iron Man's blatant critique of the military-industrial complex to Black Panther's critique of American imperialism and intelligence culture that was so "subtle" and "subtextual" hardly anyone seemed to notice.
So how are people on TV Tropes going to react to this possible shift in movie and media production where cheaper budgets and more psychological dramas take center stage? Tropers love childish easy to digest media like the MCU where flashy special effects and simple stories reign supreme. Are they going to ignore these new movies?, flood the YMMV pages with them complaining how the movie made them think about uncomfortable things?, or are they such consoomers of media they will write autistic analysis's on these new movies and twist them to their world view?
Well I mean there are trope pages for Mulholland Drive and Eyes Wide Shut, which are as close to pure REEEE-bait as you'll find in that crowd outside anything made by Leni Riefenstahl, so best guess is they'll try to mind-fart their way through it with as close to analysis as their spud-brains can muster, whilst screeching about how problematically problematic the movies are in the forums and some sped talks about how one of the characters is secretly The Doctor on the WMG page.
It's essentially more pro-gay stuff. But most of those examples are essentially background material that only the woke crowd would care about...Except, or course, the Omegaverse.
Wouldn't a better name be "Genderless Society" or "Gender-fluid Society" because gender is a non-issue in these fictional countries instead of Non-Heteronormative which no one will understand outside of Tumblr and Academia and ignores that in some of the examples men and women can still hook up just as easily as two men or two whatever? If gender isn't an issue why does the society have to be judged based on other societies values?
Because tropers had been writing about it like the intended reader isn't going to be born for decades.
Can't wait for the entire "Incurable Cough Of Death" trope to be labeled as harsher in hindsight.
They put there because covid is "controversial" and to curb conspiracy theories .
The great Vietnam war movies came in a very specific context.The 80's when you had the Reagan military build-up and the US was again trying to prepare for a possible war with the soviets.So the generation that lived through the war now middle aged started making movies about the experience.Importantly Vietnam war movies went out of style after 1989 because the Cold War ended and the Gulf War happened.You still have some but their heyday was actually short about a decade.And while Islamic terrorism hasn't gone away there's a growing realisation that overreacting to it is actually worse than managing it.9/11 was a once and done all attacks since then haven't even come close.In fact as awkward as it may seem the pandemic in a way helps.Pre-pandemic in the US the benchmark for 'this is bad' was 9/11 an event with about 3000 fatalities.Now the benchmark for it has been raised quite a bit not just in terms of fatalities but direct societal impact(closing down everything,curfews etc).For the post-9/11 generation a new attack with 3000 dead would almost seem 'small' compared to the widespread disruption brought about by Covid.It may sound awkward but yes 3000 dead is peanuts these days.Basically islamists if they really want to be in the spotlight again they're gonna need something that goes way above Covid in body counts.And realistically that's not as easy as it may seem.In the movies terrorists are always hypercompetent regardless of how absurd their plan is.In real life most plots fail because they leave too much to chance.
Destabilization was the point. The Clean Break Memo outlines the plan to annihilate any functional opposition to Israel in the ME by making their strongest governments into toothless cartels or manic terror states. The flood of immigrants into white countries was just a bonus.