King Solomon's Mines (1985) | How Woke Is It?

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King Solomon's Mines1985

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What We Think

‘King Solomon’s Mines’ (1985) is the un-woke antidote to today’s activist-driven cinema. Bursting with swashbuckling action and old-fashioned stereotypes, it’s about as far from modern Hollywood’s diversity checklists as you can get. Expect pulp adventure, not lectures.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The 1985 'King Solomon's Mines' largely sticks to traditional adventure tropes, focusing on character roles over identity factors. There’s little evidence of forced modern representation or relocation of focus from personality and skill to identity categories. Some may argue the damsel-in-distress trope is outdated, but it isn’t a product of modern 'woke' sensibilities.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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This film leans into old-school values: adventure, heroism, and traditional gender roles. Masculinity is celebrated, not mocked, and family or religion are neither subverted nor unduly criticized. If anything, it could be accused of being too rooted in its time rather than revising traditions for modern tastes.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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There’s minimal ideological messaging here, if anything, the absence of diverse perspectives might be noted today. Any caricature of alternative views comes from a period adventure lens, not from modern ideological motives. The film doesn’t push a single worldview with contemporary buzzwords.

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