Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) | How Woke Is It?

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade1989

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What We Think

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is refreshingly non-woke, sticking to classic storytelling, respect for tradition, and avoiding any forced modern ideological overlay. A real throwback to when adventure movies were unapologetically fun.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The film focuses on adventure, character, and story rather than modern identity politics. Characters are driven by personality, skill, and relationships, with little emphasis on forced diversity or representation. No one is shoehorned in for diversity quotas, a true relic of a less woke Hollywood era.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Traditional themes like faith, father-son relationships, heroism, and Western culture are front and center. Masculinity isn't mocked, family and faith are treated with respect, and there's no subversion of classic archetypes. It wears its love of history and culture openly, no revisionism here.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

Some might say the Nazis are pretty archetypically villainous, but that's hard to fault given the context. The film doesn’t lean into caricatured portrayals of tradition or dissent. Dialogue and viewpoints focus on adventure, not on hammering home sociopolitical messages.

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