The Dark Tower (2017) | How Woke Is It?

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The Dark Tower2017

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What We Think

"The Dark Tower" may tweak character backgrounds to meet current Hollywood representation trends, but it mostly avoids excessive wokeness. If anything, it's more a bland studio adaptation than an ideological battering ram.

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Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

The movie features some forced representation, notably with the casting of Idris Elba as Roland, which stirred debate given the character's original racial background in the Stephen King novels. However, the story largely remains a standard fantasy/sci-fi fare with few overt agenda-driven characterizations.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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Traditional values like heroism, fatherhood, and sacrifice generally remain intact. There’s little explicit subversion of family, faith, or masculinity, though the reimagining of classic source material for modern sensibilities does nudge the score up slightly.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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The film doesn’t lean heavily into mocking or villainizing traditional perspectives. There's an overall lack of ideological preaching; the diversity choices feel more like Hollywood box-checking than a manifesto.

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