Human Nature Doesn'T Change - Vii
VII.
Fisher was new to the Hollywood scene,
but he’d had an easy time getting it,
he’d written a screenplay set in Georgia
of rednecks who can’t handle strong women.
It had lots of action, to draw the crowds,
it was pro-feminist, empowering,
many studios had bid on the script,
and said,”Friend, you’re going to do great things.”
He shook the right hands, slept with the right people,
then came production, a bit of a chore,
but when it was done everyone said that
it was a film to be praised and adored.
But when the trailer hit the internet
trouble began, all the comments poked fun:
Ninety pound girl fighting a full-grown man?
Only Hollywood could be this damn dumb!
Fisher took to his social media
to defend the movie that he had made,
called out the people as sexist scumbags,
he would not let them just pump out their ‘hate.’
Yet when the movie finally premiered,
to the bottom of the ranks did it go,
it seems people don’t like being preached at,
didn’t buy tiny girls as action heroes.
The calls stopped coming, exec turned their heads,
he drank his anger until half deranged,
why wouldn’t people watch what was ‘good for them?’
Why couldn’t he make human nature change?
Copyright © David Welch | Year Posted 2020
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