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Sure, I know its commerce as well as art. You know what else is bad business? Bad movies. Rubbing the Panderstone and thinking about "Well, POC constitutes x% of the audience, therefore X characters need to appeal to POC demographics" is a recipe for shit movies. You can slightly tailor your movies to be more appealing, younger/older/blah blah, including Arwen as a more prominent character so you have a love story and she gets the ride to Rivendell rather than Glorfindel? Sure. DEI quotas and Romance Consultants and every other big studio bureaucratic layer? Marvel Phase 4 Debacle with Every hero Girlbossing too close to the sun? All New All Different Marvel rather than 80 years of classic comic stories.I'm not sure why you're upset. Did I give you the impression I'm an advocate for DEI? Nothing could be further from the truth, I dislike American Inventors, faggots and Jews as much as anybody you'll ever meet. I'm just sharing with you some insight as to why DEI is so pervasive in Hollywood - because whites don't go to the theater. Hollywood is a business first and foremost, the artistry will always be second to that. You can't make movies without people pouring huge amounts of money into the production and expecting a return. That's capitalism at work, too bad comrade. You seem very passionate about the artistry side of things though so I fully encourage you to independently produce your authentic vision of Transformers where the entire 3 hour movie takes place on Cybertron with photorealistic CGI and the robots speak only in binary. I will be first in line to see it at my local arthouse theater.
"Well, it has to be this way because the audience is X" is a shit argument; again, Look at your chart above. Pandering to them doesn't increase their participation.
If DEI were good business, they wouldn't have a name for it; they would just call it "good movies". Instead, people can see it for what it is and are rejecting it. 2019 was Hollywood's last good year, and it may be their last good year for some time.