Mike White is not an investor in destroying the rules, or socially adding drugs or Gen Z.
He is a soft artist who formulated those characters for the third season of “The White Lotus”.
The MAX series, which is my beloved embarrassment for its first two, brings a group of defective characters to Wallow in Paradise. Watching it is strange in a strange way.
This season, Paradise means luxurious bush in Thailand.
White, a writer and director of the show, has no problem creating characters outside his personal experience. He is a talented man, publicly gay who behaves as well as directing.
His ability to create a group of colored characters is the reason that the audience has flocked to the epic from its inception. The fourth episode of the current season Drawing 3.4 million viewersA solid amount in the modern TV scene. The viewers also started for the first time in the third season.
In short – we cannot get enough “White Lotus”.
White explained to the blogger and PodCaster Andrew Sullivan why It does not let the identity policy Keep it again in the writer’s room.
“The idea of living experience … there are some barriers of identity that you do not welcome to cross, and that was always a pleasure [of storytelling]White Sullivan told: “I will be a different writer if I just wanted to write the novels of the first person and sincerely about my feelings and what I think and whatever it is. This does not excite me to write.”
Gently woke up again to the idea that the book should adhere to their backgrounds and their fixed characteristics when creating art.
A more clear example?
The author Janine Kameins faced a cultural campaign to cancel an aggressive when her book “The American Dirt” struck stores in 2020. Kamins is not Mexican, but she wrote a famous story of a Mexican woman crossing to America across the southern border.
Some have said in the far left that she had no right to tell the story of another culture.
Ha The advertising tour took place After violent threats. Some of its biggest supporters, including Oprah Winfrey, retreated after Imbroglio.
White has no time for such restrictions.
“I do not agree with [Identity Politics in art] In a kind of more basis floor … we also share a lot. The idea that we always focus on the differences of our identity and this type of ideas on the identity that is supposed to be … … I just don’t think the world is this way. “
“I feel something that is growing for my religious upbringing, which is the best part of it … We are more similar than we are different. These privacy can be shared by a black woman or a white man.”
Sullivan said that the characters in the show are a person who can be recognized … many other characters on TV are not. “
