Wicked (2024) | How Woke Is It?

Our VerdictHyper Woke

88%

Wicked2024

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What We Think

Wicked (2024) leans in hard on the current Hollywood trend of injecting classic stories with modern identity themes, significantly retooling its narrative to fit a more ideologically uniform vision. This one lands firmly in the ‘woke’ camp.

Score Breakdown

Compromised:Narrative Integrity

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What is this?

Wicked’s casting and portrayal of central characters place a heavy emphasis on diversity and identity over more traditional attributes like character arc and growth. It appears much of the narrative is reshaped through a modern lens, foregrounding messaging and representation at the expense of original complexity and moral ambiguity.

Compromised:Cultural Foundations

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What is this?

The story subverts classic fairy tale binaries and pushes progressive takes on morality, family, and tradition. Iconic symbols of good and evil are reinterpreted, and longstanding cultural and gender norms are either downplayed or outright critiqued, giving the story a distinctly modern ideological flavor.

Compromised:Ideological Monoculture

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What is this?

Dissenting or traditional viewpoints are barely visible, when they appear, they’re usually caricatured or serve as obstacles for ‘enlightened’ leads. There’s little room for true pluralism, with nearly all characters cheerleading the same set of modern, progressive values without much genuine debate.

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